Eyik (; , ''Eeyik'') is a
rural locality
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(a ''
selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the
administrative center
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In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...
of
Shologonsky National Rural Okrug of
Olenyoksky District
Olenyoksky District (; , ''Ölöön uluuha'', ), or Olenyoksky-Evenki National District, is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Rep ...
in the
Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...
,
Russia
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, located from
Olenyok, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the
2010 Census was 344,
[Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the ]Federal State Statistics Service
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Since 2017, it is again part of the Ministry of Economic Development, having switched several times in the previous decades betw ...
. 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 346 recorded during the
2002 Census.
[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'']
Geography
Eyik is located by the northern shore of lake
Eyik in the eastern part of the
Central Siberian Plateau
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Geography
The plateau occupies a great part of central Siberia between the Yenisei and Lena rivers. It is located in the Siberian Plat ...
. The source of the
Tyukyan
The Tyukyan (; ''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, but its source lies close to Eyi ...
river is close to the village.
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Olenyoksky District
*
Rural localities in the Sakha Republic
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