Elginsky

Elginsky
	Abolished urban settlement
Elginsky
	Elge
A country	Russia
Subject of the federation	Republic of Yakutia
Municipal District	Oymyakonsky
Urban settlement	Elginsky Village
History and Geography
Founded	1940s
Former names	until 1958 - Tongor;
Abolished urban village with	2007
Official language	Yakut , Russian
Digital identifiers
Postcode	678742
OKATO Code	98239565

Elginsky is an abolished urban-type settlement in the Oymyakon ulus of the Republic of Yakutia of Russia. It was abolished in 2007 ^[1] .

Content

Geography

It was located on the left bank of the Elga River, 75 km west of Ust-Nera , 660 km northeast of Yakutsk and 12 km from the Kolyma highway.

History

It arose in the postwar years in connection with the beginning of the development of a gold deposit.

By a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of April 29, 1958, the settlement of Tongor of the Oymyakon District was assigned to the category of working villages, with the assignment of its name to the working village of Elginsky ^[2] .

It was abolished in 2007.

Population

Population size
1959 ^[3]	1970 ^[4]	1979 ^[5]	1989 ^[6]	2002 ^[7]
5248	↘ 3664	↘ 1217	↗ 1521	↘ 392

Notes

↑ 9 settlements are liquidated in Yakutia (August 7, 2007). Archived March 11, 2013. Date of treatment January 31, 2011.
↑ Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of May 29, 1958 "On renaming the Budyonnovsky village council of the Peschanokopsky district and some settlements of the Rostov region" // Vedomosti of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. - 1958. - No. 6 (June 21).
↑ 1959 All-Union Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
↑ 1970 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
↑ 1979 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.
↑ 1989 All-Union Population Census. The urban population (neopr.) . Archived on August 22, 2011.
↑ The size of the urban and rural population of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (Neopr.) (Xls). Date of treatment January 10, 2013. Archived January 28, 2013.

Sources

Elginsky - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .
terrus.ru - Russia database
https://web.archive.org/web/20090425150303/http://www.sitc.ru/monitoring/oymyakon/elgin.shtml

[1] 9 settlements are liquidated in Yakutia (August 7, 2007). Archived March 11, 2013. Date of treatment January 31, 2011.

[2] Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of May 29, 1958 "On renaming the Budyonnovsky village council of the Peschanokopsky district and some settlements of the Rostov region" // Vedomosti of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR. - 1958. - No. 6 (June 21).

[1959C-3] 1959 All-Union Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.

[1970E-4] 1970 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.

[1979D-5] 1979 All-Union Population Census. The number of urban population of the RSFSR, its territorial units, urban settlements and urban areas by gender. (Russian) . Demoscope Weekly. Date of treatment September 25, 2013. Archived on April 28, 2013.

[1989C-6] 1989 All-Union Population Census. The urban population (neopr.) . Archived on August 22, 2011.

[2002O-7] The size of the urban and rural population of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (Neopr.) (Xls). Date of treatment January 10, 2013. Archived January 28, 2013.