Druzhina () is a

village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...

in Abyysky Ulus of the

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, a port by the left bank of the

Indigirka River The Indigirka (; ) is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana to the west and the Kolyma to the east. It is long. The area of its basin is . History The isolated village of Russkoye Ustye, located on the delta of the Indigi ...

. It is located in the Aby Lowland, about 2,800 km northeast of

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and 120 km southwest from the Belaya Gora, ulus' administrative center. Druzhina served as the administrative center of then Abyysky District (a predecessor of the modern Abyysky Ulus) until 1974. The village is reachable either by Indigirka or by winter road (''zimnik'') from Verkhoyansk. Main occupations of the dwindling population are fishing and hunting. The village has a

meteorological station A weather station is a facility, either on land or sea, with instruments and equipment for measuring atmospheric conditions to provide information for weather forecasts and to study the weather and climate. The measurements taken include tempera ...

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Rural localities in Abyysky District Indigirka basin {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub

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