Chernyshevsk

Chernyshevsky is a urban territory in Mirninsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, found 92 kilometers from Mirny, the regulatory focal point of the district, on the southern edge of the Central Siberian Plateau on the Vilyuy River, a tributary of the Lena. As of the 2010 Census, its populace was 5,025. It was established in 1959 with the development of the dam and hydroelectric plant on the Vilyuy Rivercitation needed and conceded urban-type settlement status in 1961.

It was named after Nikolay Chernyshevsky, who was ousted in Siberia from 1864 until 1883, incorporating from 1871 in adjacent Vilyuysk. After the hydroelectric venture was finished in 1976, countless moved away, with the populace falling by right around a third somewhere in the range of 1970 and 1979 however remaining genuinely stable in the accompanying years. Chernyshevsky is the site of the Vilyuy Dam, the principal major hydroelectric task on the planet to be based on permafrost, and with the coldest working states of any hydroelectric plant in the world. The dam and the related hydroelectric plant are the principle bosses.