Bulunsky District (; , ''Buluŋ uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (

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, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four 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. It is the most northerly district of the republic, and includes the offshore

New Siberian Islands The New Siberian Islands (; ) are an archipelago in the Extreme North of Russia, to the north of the East Siberian coast between the Laptev Sea and the East Siberian Sea north of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, of whose Bulunsky District they ar ...

. Bulunsky borders

Ust-Yansky District Ust-Yansky District (; , ) 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 the north of the republic in ...

in the east,

Verkhoyansky District Verkhoyansky District (; , ) 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 the northern central part of ...

in the southeast, Eveno-Bytantaysky and

Zhigansky District Zhigansky District (; ) 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 the northern central part of the ...

s in the south,

Olenyoksky District Olenyoksky District (; , ''Ölöön uluuha'', ), or Olenyoksky-Evenki National District, 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 Rep ...

in the west, and

Anabarsky District Anabarsky District (; , ''Anaabır uluuha'', ) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is loca ...

in the northwest. The area of the district is .Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic Its

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is the

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Tiksi Tiksi ( rus, Ти́кси, , ˈtʲiksʲɪ; , ''Tiksii'' – lit. ''a moorage place'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the shore of the B ...

. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 9,054, with the population of Tiksi accounting for 55.9% of that number.

Geography

The district is washed by the

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in the north. The main river in the district is the

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, with its tributaries

Eyekit The Eyekit (, ) is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is a left tributary of the Lena (river), Lena. Its length is from the sources of the Buor Eyekit. The area of its basin including the latter is . The Eyekit flows across the ...

Molodo Molodo is a village and seat of the commune of Kala Siguida in the Cercle of Niono in the Ségou Region of southern-central Mali. The village was created in 1945 to accommodate labourers working for the Office du Niger irrigation scheme.. It li ...

and

Syungyude The Syungyude (, , ''Süŋgüde'') is a river in the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), Russia. It is the largest tributary of the Molodo, of the Lena (river), Lena basin. Its length is and the area of its basin . The Syungyude flows across the Zhigansk ...

. Other rivers include the Olenyok, with the

Khorbusuonka The Khorbusuonka () is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a tributary of the Olenyok with a length of and a drainage basin area of . The river flows north of the Arctic Circle across a lonely, desolate area of Bulunsky Distric ...

and the

Kyuyutingde The Kyuyutingde () is a river in Yakutia (Sakha Republic), Russia. It is a tributary of the Olenyok with a length of — including the Debengde at its head— and a drainage basin area of . It flows north of the Arctic Circle across a desolate ...

, as well as the Omoloy and the Khara-Ulakh. There are many lakes in the Lena River delta. The

Lena Delta Wildlife Reserve Lena Delta Nature Reserve () is a ''Zapovednik'' (“scientific nature reserve”) located in the delta of the Lena River in Sakha Republic, in the far north of eastern Siberia, Russia. The reserve is divided into two subareas, and has a total la ...

is located in the district.

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Climate

Average January temperature varies from on the coast to in the interior and average July temperature varies from in the north to in the south. Average

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ranges from in the north and from in the south.

History

The district was established on December 10, 1930. Initially, its administrative center was in the ''

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'' of Kyusyur. In 1957, the administrative center was moved to Tiksi.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Bulunsky District is one of the thirty-four in the republic. It is divided into one

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(an administrative division with the

in the

(inhabited locality) of

) and eight rural okrugs (''naslegs''), all of which comprise nine rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Bulunsky Municipal District. The Settlement of Tiksi is incorporated into an urban settlement, and the eight rural okrugs are incorporated into six rural settlements within the municipal district.Law #173-Z #354-III The urban-type settlement of Tiksi serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

Inhabited localities

Economy

The economy of the district is mostly based on reindeer husbandry and fishing. Tiksi is a sea port on the

Northern Sea Route The Northern Sea Route (NSR) (, shortened to Севморпуть, ''Sevmorput'') is a shipping route about long. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is the shortest shipping route between the western part of Eurasia and the Asia-Pacific region. Ad ...

Demographics

As of the 2021 Census, the ethnic composition was as follows: *

Russians Russians ( ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Eastern Europe. Their mother tongue is Russian language, Russian, the most spoken Slavic languages, Slavic language. The majority of Russians adhere to Eastern Orthodox Church ...

: 28.8% *

Evenks The Evenki, also known as the Evenks and formerly as the Tungus, are a Tungusic peoples, Tungusic people of North Asia. In Russia, the Evenki are recognised as one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North, indigenous peoples of the Russi ...

: 27.4% *

Yakuts The Yakuts or Sakha (, ; , ) are a Turkic ethnic group native to North Siberia, primarily the Republic of Sakha in the Russian Federation. They also inhabit some districts of the Krasnoyarsk Krai. They speak Yakut, which belongs to the Si ...

: 24.6% *

Evens The Evens /əˈvɛn/ ( Even: эвэн; pl. эвэсэл, ''evesel'' in Even and эвены, ''eveny'' in Russian; formerly called ''Lamuts'') are a people in Siberia and the Russian Far East. They live in regions of the Magadan Oblast and ...

: 13.4% *

Ukrainians Ukrainians (, ) are an East Slavs, East Slavic ethnic group native to Ukraine. Their native tongue is Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, and the majority adhere to Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, forming the List of contemporary eth ...

: 1.2% * Kyrgyz: 0.6% *others: 4.0%

References

Notes

Sources

*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Bulunsky District
* * *

External links

* {{Use mdy dates, date=March 2013 Districts of the Sakha Republic