Aldan

Aldan is a gold-mining town and the place of business of Aldansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, positioned within the Aldan highlands, in the Aldan River basin, on the stream Orto-Sala close to its mouth within the Seligdar River, about 470 kilometers south of the republic's capital of Yakutsk. As of the 2010 Census, its population turned into 21,275. It changed into based in 1923 as Nezametny, after discovery of wealthy gold deposits. It turned into granted metropolis repute and renamed in 1939.

During World War II, an airfield was built right here for the Alaska-Siberian ALSIB air direction used to ferry American Lend-Lease plane to the Eastern Front. Aldan remains a effective gold and mica mining middle, largely warding off the massive drop in population suffered via maximum different cities in the Russian Far East in the years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The metropolis stands on the A360 Lena Highway, which connects Yakutsk and Never, as well as on the partly entire Amur–Yakutsk Mainline railway. It is served through the Aldan Airport.