Olyokminsk

Olyokminsk is a city and the workplace of Olyokminsky District inside the Sakha Republic, Russia, positioned on the left financial institution of the Lena River, 651 kilometers southwest of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population become 9,494. It turned into based in 1635 as an ostrog with the aid of the Cossacks led by Pyotr Beketov, sited on the left bank of the Lena contrary the mouth of the Olyokma River. The outpost was later moved a few kilometers upstream, to a location less prone to flooding in spring. As the junction for river traffic on the Lena and Olyokma, it was the base for Russian expeditions further east and eventually became a trade center on the river route to Yakutsk. Town status was granted to it in 1783.

Decembrists Nikolay Chizhov and Andrey Andreyev were exiled right here.During World War II, an airfield was constructed right here for the Alaska-Siberian ALSIB air course used to ferry American Lend-Lease plane to the Eastern Front. Timber processing and a strength plant are the focal point of the city's financial system, together with farming within the surrounding vicinity. Olyokminsk is served by using the Olyokminsk Airport. The town is great for a number of surviving pre-20th century wooden architecture, consisting of the Alexander Nevsky Chapel 1891 and Cathedral of Our Savior 1860.