Nelemnoye (russian: Нелемное; sah, Нелемнэй, ''Nelemney'') is a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry typically are describ ...

(a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

of Nelemninsky National Rural Okrug of

Verkhnekolymsky District Verkhnekolymsky District (russian: Верхнеколы́мский улу́с; sah, Үөһээ Халыма улууһа, ''Üöhee Khalyma uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III distri ...

in the

Sakha Republic Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia),, is the largest republic of Russia, located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of roughly 1 million. Sakha comprises half of the area of its governing Far Eas ...

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, located from

Zyryanka Zyryanka (russian: Зыря́нка; sah, Зырянка) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Verkhnekolymsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, on the left bank of the Kolyma River. As of the ...

, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 262,Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the

Federal State Statistics Service The Federal State Statistics Service (russian: Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Росстат), ''Federal'naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoi statistiki (Rosstat)'') is the governmental statistics ...

. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census
Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам
(''Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities'') of whom 145 were male and 117 female, down from 282 recorded during the 2002 Census.''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''

Etymology

The name of the locality derives from

nelma ''Stenodus nelma'', known alternatively as the nelma, sheefish, siifish, inconnu or connie, is a commercial species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is widespread in the Arctic rivers from the Kola Peninsula (White Sea basin) ...

, a kind of fish that the rivers around the locality are rich of.Село Нелемное

Kolyma Yukaghirs

Nelemnoye is known for having a significant population of Kolyma

Yukaghirs The Yukaghirs, or Yukagirs ( (), russian: юкаги́ры) are a Siberian ethnic group people in the Russian Far East, living in the basin of the Kolyma River. Geographic distribution The Tundra Yukaghirs live in the Lower Kolyma region ...

(at the time when the total population of the locality was 296, 168 of them were Yukaghirs). It's the only place to have a Kolyma Yukaghir cultural center and a school where the

Southern Yukaghir language The Southern, Kolyma or Forest Yukaghir language is one of two extant Yukaghir languages. Last spoken in the forest zone near the sources of the Kolyma, divided between the Sakha Republic and the Magadan Oblast (around ), previously in the wider ...

is being taught. The music video for the song "Ulegen Nume" by the Yukaghir singer Irina Duskulova was shot in Nelemnoye. Nikolai Spiridonov (aka Tekki Odulok), the first Yukaghir writer and scientist, was born in 1906 in Ottur-Kyuyol, near the modern location of Nelemnoye.Общественно-политическая деятельность Тэки Одулока (Н.И. Спиридонова)

References

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Sources

*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Verkhnekolymsky District
* Rural localities in Verkhnekolymsky District {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub