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Verkhnevilyuysk (russian: Верхневилюйск; sah, Үөһээ Бүлүү, ''Üöhee Bülüü'') 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'') and the administrative center of
Verkhnevilyuysky District
Verkhnevilyuysky District (russian: Верхневилю́йский улу́с; sah, Үөһээ Бүлүү улууһа, ''Üöhee Bülüü uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III distri ...
of
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
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...
. Its population as of the
2010 Census was 6,457,
[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 3,015 were male and 3,442 female, down from 6,555 as recorded during the
2002 Census.
[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'']
Geography
Verkhnevilyuysk is located in the
Central Yakutian Lowland
The Central Yakutian LowlandJohn Kimble (ed.), ''Cryosols: Permafrost-Affected Soils'' or Central Yakutian Lowlands (russian: Центральноякутская равнина; sah, Саха сирин ортоку намтала), also known as ...
, by the
Vilyuy River
The Vilyuy ( rus, Вилю́й, p=vʲɪˈlʲʉj; sah, Бүлүү, ''Bülüü'', ) is a river in Russia, the longest tributary of the Lena. About long, it flows mostly within the Sakha Republic. Its basin covers about .
History
The river is fir ...
, near its confluence with the
Tyukyan
The Tyukyan ( rus, Тюкян; sah, Түүкээн ''Tüükeen'') is a river in the Republic of Sakha in Russia. It is a left hand tributary of the Vilyuy, and is long, with a drainage basin of .
There are no permanent settlements by the river, ...
.
Transportation
Verkhnevilyuysk is served by the
Verkhnevilyuysk Airport .
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Verkhnevilyuysky District
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Rural localities in Verkhnevilyuysky District
Central Yakutian Lowland