Ulu (; , ''Uluu'') is a
rural locality
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(a ''
selo'') under the administrative jurisdiction of the
Town
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The criteria for distinguishing a town vary globally, often depending on factors such as population size, economic character, administrative stat ...
of
Tommot
Tommot (; ) is a town in Aldansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Aldan River (a right-hand tributary of the Lena) southwest of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic, and northeast of Aldan, the administrative center of ...
in
Aldansky District
Aldansky District (; , ''Aldan uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia.
Location
I ...
of the
Sakha Republic
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,
Russia
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, located on the left bank of the
Ulu River
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, a
tributary
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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
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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 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.
Infrastructure
Besides the highway to the republic
capital city
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of
Yakutsk
Yakutsk ( ) is the capital and largest city of Sakha, Russia, located about south of the Arctic Circle. Fueled by the mining industry, Yakutsk has become one of Russia's most rapidly growing regional cities, with a population of 355,443 at the ...
, Ulu has a railway station on the
Amur–Yakutsk Mainline
The Amur–Yakutsk Mainline (, ), abbreviated to AYaM (Russian language, Russian АЯM), is a partially complete railway in eastern Russia, linking the Trans–Siberian Railway and Baikal–Amur Mainline with the Sakha Republic.
Passenger serv ...
, 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