Deputatsky

Deputatsky is a town, an urban-kind agreement and the administrative center of Ust-Yansky District inside the Sakha Republic, Russia, placed inside the Nemkuchansky Range, about 930 kilometers north-northeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,983. It changed into founded in 1951 as a mining settlement, exploiting close by deposits of lead. In its early years, its body of workers blanketed Gulag prisoners. In 1958, Deputatsky changed into granted city-type agreement fame. In 1967, it changed the selo of Kazachye because the workplace of Ust-Yansky District. Due to the downturn inside the mining industry following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, greater than 3-quarters of population left at some point of the 90s.

However, mine production persevered and the population decline slowed down. Deputatsky is handy through avenue to Ust-Kuyga, 250 kilometers away on the Yana River. From there, a wintry weather street zimnik leads through Batagay and the Verkhoyansk Range to Topolinoye, from where the Kolyma Highway is offered. An unmaintained winter avenue heads east from Deputatsky down the Uyandina Valley to Belaya Gora. A small airport on the northern edge of the agreement ICAO-Code UEWD offers air service.