Sosnovka (; ) is a rural locality (a '' selo''), and one of two settlements in Vilyuysk Urban Okrug of

Vilyuysky District Vilyuysky 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 western central part of the ...

in the

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, in addition to

Vilyuysk Vilyuysk ( rus, Вилюйск, p=vʲɪˈlʲʉjsk; , ''Bülüü'') is a town and the administrative center of Vilyuysky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Vilyuy River (left tributary of the Lena), about from Yakutsk, the ...

, the

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of the Urban Okrug and the district. It is located from Vilyuysk. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 303,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 166 were male and 137 female, up from 267 recorded during the 2002 Census was 267.''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''

History

This settlement's village hall is said to be the remains of a leper hospital inspired by the British explorer

Kate Marsden Kate Marsden (13 May 1859 – 26 May 1931) was a British missionary, explorer, writer and nurse. Supported by Queen Victoria and Empress Maria Feodorovna she investigated a cure for leprosy. She set out on a round trip from Moscow to Siberia to ...

who travelled the length of Russia to find a cure for leprosy she had been told about. Marsden never said what the herb was. The heir apparent is now said to be a herb called ''kutchutka'' which was mentioned in an 1899 Sakha dictionary. One local herbalist told researchers in 2008 that it was so rare that he had not seen it recently. The researchers found the buildings that had made up the leprosarium that had closed in 1962. The village hall carries a plaque recording the centenary of Marsden's visit.

References

Sources

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