Ust-Maya
Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template other Ust-Maya (Template:Langx; Template:Langx, Uus Maaya) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, southeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,293.[1]
Geography
Ust-Maya is located on the north bank of the Aldan River opposite the mouth of the Maya River. The Sette-Daban mountain range rises to the east of the town.[2]
History
Ust-Maya was founded in 1930 as a base for gold mining activities on the Allakh-Yun and Yudoma Rivers to the east.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". It became the administrative center of the newly created Ust-Maysky District in 1931.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". During World War II, an airfield was built here for the Alaska-Siberian air route used to ferry American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front.[3] In 1957, Ust-Maya was granted urban-type settlement status.[4] In 1972, the administrative center of the district was moved to Solnechny, where it remained until 1992, when it was moved back to Ust-Maya.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of Ust-Maya[5] serves as the administrative center of Ust-Maysky District.[4] As an administrative division, it is, together with one rural locality (the selo of Ust-Yudoma), incorporated within Ust-Maysky District as the Settlement of Ust-Maya.[4] As a municipal division, the Settlement of Ust-Maya is incorporated within Ust-Maysky Municipal District as Ust-Maya Urban Settlement.[6]
Transportation
There are no year-round roads connecting Ust-Maya with outside world; however, winter roads connect it to Eldikan and Amga.
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Climate
Ust-Maya has an extreme subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfd). Winters are extremely cold, while summers are quite warm. Precipitation is quite low and is somewhat higher in summer than at other times of the year.
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References
Notes
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- ↑ ТРРС 3 / 104А. Описание местности (in Russian)
- ↑ Igor Lebedev. Aviation Lend-Lease to Russia. Nova Publishers, 1997, pp. 44–49
- ↑ a b c Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic
- ↑ According to Article 7 of the Law #77-I, lower-level administrative divisions with the status of a settlement have their administrative centers in an inhabited locality with the status of an urban-type settlement. According to the Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic, Ust-Maya is the administrative center of the Settlement of Ust-Maya.
- ↑ Law #173-Z #353-III
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Sources
- Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Ust-Maysky District. Template:In lang
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