Argakhtakh (; , ''Arğaxtaax'') is a
rural locality (a ''
selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the
administrative center
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In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...
of
Alazeysky Rural Okrug of
Srednekolymsky District
Srednekolymsky District (; , ''Orto Xalıma uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in t ...
in the
Sakha Republic
Sakha, officially the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), is a republics of Russia, republic of Russia, and the largest federal subject of Russia by area. It is located in the Russian Far East, along the Arctic Ocean, with a population of one million ...
,
Russia
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, located from
Srednekolymsk
Srednekolymsk (; , ''Orto Xalıma'') is a town and the administrative center of Srednekolymsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Kolyma River, northeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 201 ...
, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the
2010 Census was 518,
[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
(''Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities'') of whom 247 were male and 271 female, down from 581 recorded during the
2002 Census.
[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''] It is also known to be extremely cold, reaching temperatures far below zero in both Fahrenheit and Celsius.
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Srednekolymsky District
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Rural localities in Srednekolymsky District
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