Nelemnoye (; , ''Nelemney'') is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the

administrative center An administrative centre is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune, is located. In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...

of Nelemninsky National Rural Okrug of

Verkhnekolymsky District Verkhnekolymsky 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 northeast of the repu ...

in the

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, located from Zyryanka, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 262,Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the

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. 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 145 were male and 117 female, down from 282 recorded during the 2002 Census.''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''

Etymology

The name of the locality derives from

nelma ''Stenodus nelma'', known alternatively as the nelma, sheefish, siifish, inconnu or connie, is a commercial species of freshwater whitefish in the family Salmonidae. It is widespread in the Arctic rivers from the Kola Peninsula (White Sea basin) ...

, a kind of fish that the rivers around the locality are rich of.Село Нелемное

Kolyma Yukaghirs

Nelemnoye is known for having a significant population of Kolyma

Yukaghirs The Yukaghirs, or Yukagirs ( (), ), are a Siberian ethnic group in the Russian Far East, living in the basin of the Kolyma River. Geographic distribution The Tundra Yukaghirs live in the Lower Kolyma region in the Sakha Republic; the Taiga Y ...

(at the time when the total population of the locality was 296, 168 of them were Yukaghirs). It's the only place to have a Kolyma Yukaghir cultural center and a school where the Southern Yukaghir language is being taught. The music video for the song "Ulegen Nume" by the Yukaghir singer Irina Duskulova was shot in Nelemnoye. Nikolai Spiridonov (aka Tekki Odulok), the first Yukaghir writer and scientist, was born in 1906 in Ottur-Kyuyol, near the modern location of Nelemnoye.Общественно-политическая деятельность Тэки Одулока (Н.И. Спиридонова)

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*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Verkhnekolymsky District
* Rural localities in Verkhnekolymsky District {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub