Nizhneyansk
Encyclopedia
Nizhneyansk is an urban locality (a settlement
) in Ust-Yansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia
, located in the delta
of the Yana River
, 581 kilometres (361 mi) north from Deputatsky, the administrative center of the district
. Population:
It was founded in the 1940s and was granted urban-type settlement status in 1958.
Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...
) in Ust-Yansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located in the delta
River delta
A delta is a landform that is formed at the mouth of a river where that river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, reservoir, flat arid area, or another river. Deltas are formed from the deposition of the sediment carried by the river as the flow leaves the mouth of the river...
of the Yana River
Yana River
The Yana River , is a river in Sakha in Russia, located between the Lena to the west and the Indigirka to the east.It is 872 km in length. The area of its basin is 238,000 km², whilst its annual discharge totals approximately . Most of this discharge occurs in May and June as the ice on the...
, 581 kilometres (361 mi) north from Deputatsky, the administrative center of the district
Raion
A raion is a type of administrative unit of several post-Soviet countries. The term, which is from French rayon 'honeycomb, department,' describes both a type of a subnational entity and a division of a city, and is commonly translated in English as "district"...
. Population:
It was founded in the 1940s and was granted urban-type settlement status in 1958.