Sangar

Sangar is an urban locality an city-type agreement and the workplace of Kobyaysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the right financial institution of the Lena River, 334 kilometers by means of street from Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its populace become 4,377. It changed into hooked up in 1928 as a mining agreement. The name originates from the close by Sangar-Khaya Mountain.

On February 10, 1930, the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic become break up into districts uluses and Sangar have become part of newly installed Namsky District. In 1934, the mine became transferred to the Chief Directorate of the Northern Sea Route, which on the time administrated maximum of the commercial hobby in the north of the Soviet Union. Coal from Sangar changed into transported to Tiksi at the coast of the Arctic Ocean and there disbursed among numerous Arctic settlements.

On April 20, 1937, Kobyaysky District turned into installed, with the administrative center within the selo of Kobyay, and Sangar became a part of that district. In 1938, the reconstruction of Sangar, which till that 12 months did no longer have a sanatorium or a membership, started out. Urban-type agreement fame became granted to it in 1940. In 1942, approximately hundred of humans were deported to exile to Sangar from Leningrad Oblast. In June 1943, a fatal accident passed off in the mine, and twenty- miners had been killed.