Namy
En nameNamy
Ru nameНамы
Loc name 1Намыы
Loc lang 1Yakut
Coordinates69°31′N 132°15′E
Federal subjectSakha Republic
Adm district jurBulunsky District
Adm selsoviet jurBorogonsky Rural Okrug
Adm ctr ofBorogonsky Rural Okrug
Inhabloc catRural locality
Mun district jurBulunsky Municipal District
Rural settlement jurBorogonsky Rural Settlement
Mun admctr ofBorogonsky Rural Settlement
Pop 2010census526
Pop latest503
Pop latest dateJanuary 2016
Postal codes678411

Namy (Russian: Намы; sah: Намыы, Namıı) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Borogonsky Rural Okrug of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 280 kilometers (170 mi) from Tiksi, the administrative center of the district.[1] Its population as of the 2010 Census was 526,[2] up from 488 recorded during the 2002 Census.[1] Philologist Zoya Basharina is a native of the okrug.[3]

Geography

The village is located north of the Arctic Circle, on the left bank of the Omoloy, upstream of the mouth of the Kuranakh-Yuryakh.[4][5]

Climate

Namy has a Subarctic or Boreal (taiga) climate (Dfd).[6]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic
  2. ^ Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census. Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам Archived March 4, 2016 at the Wayback Machine (Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities) (in Russian)
  3. ^ "Писатели Якутии - Зоя Башарина". pnbglaz.narod.ru. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
  4. ^ "R-53_54 Topographic Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 15 May 2022.
  5. ^ Google Earth
  6. ^ McKnight and Hess, pp. 232–235

Sources

  • Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Bulunsky District Archived April 27, 2017 at the Wayback Machine. (in Russian)
  • McKnight, Tom L & Hess, Darrel (2000). "Climate Zones and Types". Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-020263-0.