Sinegorye (; lit. ''region of blue mountains'') is an urban locality (an

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

) in Yagodninsky District of

Magadan Oblast Magadan Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Russian Far East, Far East region of the country, and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. Magadan ...

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, located on the

Kolyma River The Kolyma (, ; ) is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast of Russia. The Kolyma is frozen to depths of several metres for about 250 days each year, b ...

, from Kolyma Hydroelectric Station. Population:

Geography

Sinegorye lies around 280 km north-west of the oblast capital of

Magadan Magadan ( rus, Магадан, p=məɡɐˈdan) is a Port of Magadan, port types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative centre of Magadan Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the isthmus of the Staritsky Peninsula by the ...

, on the left bank of the Kolyma near its confluence with the Bakhapcha. The settlement is located downstream of the Kolyma Reservoir, in Yagodninsky District, just over 70 km south-east of the administrative centre Yagodnoye.

History

The youngest town in the Kolyma region, Sinegorye was built in the period 1971 to 1981 to house workers for the construction of the nearby dam and hydroelectric power station on the

. Sinegorye received status as an urban-type settlement in 1972. The settlement was planned to house up to 10,000 inhabitants, however after the eventual completion of the dam and power plant construction project, the majority of the town's inhabitants moved away, leaving around two thirds of the town's buildings abandoned in the present day. The remaining population mainly consists of hydro plant employees and their families.

Infrastructure

Sinegorye is connected to the outside world via a 30 km road to Debin, where it connects to the

Kolyma Highway The R504 Kolyma Highway (, ''Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma»,'' "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road through the Russian Far East. It connects Magadan with the town of Nizhny Bestyakh, located ...

to Magadan. Sinegorye Airport was previously located around 20 km north-east of the settlement, operating between the years 1978 and 2000.

Sports

There is a well-equipped slalom track on the nearby mountain slope.

References

External links

Sinegorye photos on the website of Yelena Ilyushenko

Sinegorye on the website of A. O. Kogodovsky

Sinegorye on the website of Maxim Khorev

Sinegorye (Bokhapcha) Weather Station Information
{{Magadan Oblast Urban-type settlements in Magadan Oblast Kolyma basin