Eyik (russian: Эйик; sah, Ээйик, ''Eeyik'') is a
rural locality
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(a ''
selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the
administrative center
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In countries with French as administrative language (such as Belgium, L ...
of
Shologonsky National Rural Okrug of
Olenyoksky District
Olenyoksky District (russian: Оленёкский улу́с; sah, Өлөөн улууһа, ''Ölöön uluuha'', ), or Olenyoksky-Evenki National District, is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III di ...
in the
Sakha Republic,
Russia
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, located from
Olenyok Olenyok or Olenek may refer to:
* Olenyok (river), a river in Russia
* Olenyok (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in the Sakha Republic, Russia
*Olenyok Airport, an airport in the same rural locality
*Olenyok Gulf
The Olenyok Gulf, a ...
, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the
2010 Census was 344,
[Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the ]Federal State Statistics Service
The Federal State Statistics Service (russian: Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Росстат), ''Federal'naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoi statistiki (Rosstat)'') is the governmental statistics ...
. 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'') down from 346 recorded during the
2002 Census.
[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'']
Geography
Eyik is located by the northern shore of lake
Eyik in the eastern part of the
Central Siberian Plateau
The Central Siberian Plateau (russian: Среднесибирское плоскогорье, Srednesibirskoye ploskogorye; sah, Орто Сибиир хаптал хайалаах сирэ) is a vast mountainous area in Siberia, one of the Grea ...
. The source of the
Tyukyan
The Tyukyan ( rus, Тюкян; sah, Түүкээн ''Tüükeen'') is a river in the Republic of Sakha in Russia. It is a left hand tributary of the Vilyuy, and is long, with a drainage basin of .
There are no permanent settlements by the river, ...
river is close to the village.
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Olenyoksky District
*
Rural localities in the Sakha Republic
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