Ust Nera

Ust-Nera is an urban locality an urban-type settlement and the place of work of Oymyakonsky District inside the Sakha Republic, Russia, located in one of the coldest completely inhabited areas on Earth, approximately 870 kilometers northeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its populace changed into 6,463. Ust-Nera changed into based in 1937 in conjunction with gold mining and exploration inside the Indigirka and Kolyma regions.

In the Soviet generation, it served as a base for pressured labor camps of the gulag. Urban-kind agreement reputation was granted to Ust-Nera in 1950. Gold mining is the principle occupation. The Kolyma Highway became extended northwest to Ust-Nera in 1937; this segment is now the primary path between Yakutsk and Magadan. The Ust-Nera Airport is serving air traffic. River visitors at the Indigirka is restricted via the rapids a 100 kilometers downstream. There is a small museum in Ust-Nera.