Nyuya Severnaya (russian: Нюя Северная; sah, Хотугу Ньүүйэ, ''Xotugu Ñüüye'') is a

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(a '' selo''), one of two settlements, in addition to Dorozhny, the administrative centre of the Rural Okrug, in Murbaysky Rural Okrug of Lensky District 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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. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 168.''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''

Geography

Nyuya Severnaya is located in the

Lena Plateau The Lena Plateau, also known as Prilensky Plateau ( rus, Приленское плато, ''Prilenskoye Plato''; sah, Өлүөнэтээҕи хаптал хайалаах сир), is one of the great plateaus of Siberia. Administratively it is m ...

, from the district centre

Lensk Lensk ( rus, Ленск, p=lʲɛnsk; sah, Лиэнскэй, ''Lienskey'') is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Lensky District, Sakha Republic, Lensky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia. As of ...

. It lies on the left bank of the

Nyuya River The Nyuya (; sah, Ньүүйэ, ''Ñüüye'') is a river in Sakha, Russia. It is a left tributary of the Lena. The length of the river is . The area of its basin is . Course The Nyuya has its source in the Lena Plateau and flows south of the ...

, near its confluence with its longest tributary the Ulakhan-Murbayy (Улахан-Мурбайы).

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Sources

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