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Suturuokha (russian: Сутуруоха; sah, Сутуруоха) is a
rural locality (a ''
selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the
administrative center
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A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...
of
Urasalakhsky Rural Okrug of
Abyysky District
Abyysky District (russian: Абы́йский улу́с; sah, Абый улууһа, ''Abyy uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one o ...
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 ...
, Russia, located from
Belaya Gora, the administrative center of the district, on the opposite bank of the
Indigirka river.
Geography
The village is located near the southern slopes of the
Polousny Range west of the Indigirka River just above the
Arctic Circle
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.
Lake Suturuokha
Lake Suturuokha () is a freshwater lake in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It lies in the middle course area of the Indigirka River, to the west of it. Administratively the lake is part of Aby District ''(Aby Ulus)''
Geography
The lake is located in ...
, one of the three largest lakes of the
Aby Lowland, lies in the area.
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Demography
Suturuokha's population as of the 2010 Census was 430,[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 224 were male and 206 female, up from 411 recorded during the 2002 Census.[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'']
Climate
See also
*Lake Ozhogino
Lake Ozhogino (; sah, Одьуогун Күөл, translit=Ocuogun Küöl) is a large shallow freshwater lake in Sakha, Russia. It has an area of 157 km². It freezes up in late September and stays icebound until June. Ozhogin River ( Indig ...
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Abyysky District
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Rural localities in Abyysky District
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