Yugoryonok () 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

Ust-Maysky District Ust-Maysky District (; , ''Uus-Maaya uluuha'', ) 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 ea ...

of the

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, located from

Ust-Maya Ust-Maya (; , ''Uus Maaya'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, southeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its pop ...

, the

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of the district,''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'' in a highly isolated region on the right bank of the

Yudoma River The Yudoma () is a river in Khabarovsk Krai and Yakutia, Russian Federation. Its length in and its basin is (about the size of Switzerland). It joins the Maya which joins the Aldan which joins the Lena which flows into the Arctic Ocean. Geog ...

. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 272.

History

It was founded in 1940 at a river port on the Yudoma, for use as a service base for the nearby goldfields. It was initially administered from Yur, located about away. With the cessation of gold mining in the 1970s, Yur was abandoned, and Yugoryonok was granted

status in 1978. With the cessation of mining activities in the 1990s, its population has decreased dramatically.

Geography

Climate

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, the

of YugoryonokAccording to Article 7 of the Law #77-I, lower-level administrative divisions with the status of a settlement have their administrative centers in an inhabited locality with the status of an urban-type settlement. According to the ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'', Yugoryonok is the administrative center of the Settlement of Yugoryonok. is incorporated within

as the

Settlement Settlement may refer to: *Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), downward movement of a structure's foundation *Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money *Settlement (litigatio ...

of Yugoryonok. As a municipal division, the Settlement of Yugoryonok is incorporated within Ust-Maysky Municipal District as Yugoryonok Urban Settlement.Law #173-Z 353-III

Transportation

Yugoryonok is located at the end of a road linking it with Eldikan on the

Aldan River The Aldan ( Sakha and ) is the second-longest right tributary of the Lena in the Sakha Republic in eastern Siberia.Ust-Maysky District
* {{Use mdy dates, date=December 2015 Urban-type settlements in the Sakha Republic