Ust-Olenyok (russian: Усть-Оленёк; sah, Уус Өлөөн) 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 Ystannakhsky Rural Okrug of
Bulunsky District
Bulunsky District (russian: Булу́нский улу́с; sah, Булуҥ улууһа) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty- ...
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
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, located from
Tiksi
Tiksi ( rus, Ти́кси, , ˈtʲiksʲɪ; sah, Тиксии, ''Tiksii'' – lit. ''a moorage place'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located o ...
, the administrative center of the district.
[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''] Its population as of the
2010 Census was 27,
[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'') down from 52 recorded during the
2002 Census.
Geography
The settlement is located on the slope of a low hill, by the right bank of the mouth of the
Olenyok Olenyok or Olenek may refer to:
*Olenyok (river), a river in Russia
*Olenyok (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia
* Olenyok Airport, an airport in the same rural locality
* Olenyok Gulf, a gulf in the Laptev ...
River. The confluence of the
Buolkalakh
The Buolkalakh (russian: Буолкалах; sah, Буолкалах) is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a tributary of the Olenyok with a length of and a drainage basin area of .
It is a lowland river with its mouth very ...
is located about upstream on the facing bank.
History
The first settlement was a wintering hut built in 1633 near the modern village. It served as the administrative center of the desolate area and it was used by Arctic expeditions in different occasions in history.
Climate
Ust-Olenyok has a
tundra climate
The tundra climate is a polar climate sub-type located in high latitudes and high mountains. undra climate https://www.britannica.com/science/tundra-climateThe Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2019 It is classified as ET according to Köppen ...
(''
ET'') with short, cool summers and long, severely cold winters. On June 30th, 2020 the temperature soared to 93.7 °F (34.3 °C) which may be the farthest north above 90 °F (32.2 °C) recorded above the
72 °N parallel. The following morning the temperature only dropped to 72.7 °F (22.6 °C).
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Bulunsky District
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Rural localities in Bulunsky District
Olenyok basin
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