Ulu (russian: Улу́; sah, Улуу, ''Uluu'') is a
rural locality (a ''
selo'') under the administrative jurisdiction of the
Town of
Tommot in
Aldansky District of 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 on the left bank of the
Ulu River
An ulu ( iu, ᐅᓗ, plural: ''uluit'', 'woman's knife') is an all-purpose knife traditionally used by Inuit, Iñupiat, Yupik, and Aleut women. It is utilized in applications as diverse as skinning and cleaning animals, cutting a child's hair, ...
, a
tributary of the
Amga, and from Tommot. Its population as of the
2010 Census was 139;
[Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. 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'') down from 179 recorded in the
2002 Census.
[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'']
Etymology
The name derives from a
Sakha word meaning "great".
History
It was founded in 1953 as a base for construction of the
Lena Highway
A360 Lena Highway or The Amur-Yakutsk Highway (russian: Амуро-Якутская автомобильная дорога or russian: Амуро-Якутская автомагистраль) is a federal highway in Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in ...
.
Infrastructure
Besides the highway to the republic
capital city of
Yakutsk, Ulu has a railway station on the
Amur–Yakutsk Mainline, with the railhead having reached Ulu in August 2009.
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Aldansky District
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Rural localities in Aldansky District