Ust-Aldan ulus

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The area of ​​the district is 18.3 thousand km². Located in Central Yakutia, not far from Yakutsk . It borders in the east with Tattinsky ulus , in the southeast with Churapchinsky , in the south with Megino-Kangalassky , in the west with Namsky , in the north with Kobyaysky , in the north-east with Tomponsky district .

Natural conditions

The relief is flat. Most of the ulus is located within the Central Yakut Lowland .

The average January temperature is −42 ° C, July + 17 ... + 18 ° C. Precipitation is 200-250 mm per year.

Large rivers - Lena , Aldan . There are many lakes, the largest of them are Muru , Onor ebete or Kyys Tygana , Targyljima .

Ulus has deposits of brown coal , building materials.

Ust-Aldan ulus was formed on January 9, 1930 on the lands of the Borogon Yakuts. The Borogons are one of two (along with the Kangalasians ) senior tribal unions of the Yakuts. According to one version, the name Borogon comes from the name of the Turkic-Mongolian tribe Borjigin , in which Genghis Khan was born ^[6] .

It is believed that the Borogon ulus was formed by the beginning of the XIII century. In 1815, Dupinsky ulus stood out from it. In its current form, the Ust-Aldan ulus includes the territories of both uluses, as well as part of the Bayagantai ulus .

Russian Cossack explorers, who settled in the Lena prison , built first on the Sotta coast, at the junction of the lands of the Borogonsky, Namsky and Meginsky Yakuts, carried out several acts of intimidation of the local population in order to explain . So, the unconquered fortress of the Oscarists was burned with all the inhabitants of more than three hundred people. Such raids were also carried out against the Betunians, a kind close to the Borogonians. Under these conditions, without waiting for the help of a strong clan, the eminent leader of the Borogon Yakuts, Legoy-Toion, decided to recognize the legitimacy of the claims of the distant “White Tsar” and went down in history as a major politician who cleverly used the Cossacks to overthrow his opponents and laid the foundation for mutually beneficial cooperation between the Russian and Yakut peoples.

On September 18, 1789, the Empress Catherine II received the head of the Borogonsky ulus Alexei (Sesen) Arzhakov , who presented the Empress with a “Plan for the Yakuts with an indication of state benefits and the most advantageous position for them.” The discussion of the “Yakut Plan” at a meeting of the State Council of the Russian Empire took place on October 1, 1789.

The head of the Borogonsky ulus, Ivan Emelyanovich Migalkin , a prominent social and political activist, was one of the founders and the permanent chairman of the Yakut Steppe Duma, which operated in 1827-1837.

Vasily Vasilyevich Nikiforov - Kulumnyur (1866-1928) was born in the Tabik village (now Ospyogsky I land) - a scientist, public figure, leader of the Yakut intelligentsia of the early 20th century, organizer of the political organization Union of Yakuts, one of the founders of Yakut literature and theater. In 1918 he was elected chairman of the Yakut provincial zemstvo council, thus, he is the first elected leader of Yakutia. The literary and scientific heritage of V. Nikiforov is extensive. Many of his works have not yet been published; some of them have been lost.

In the Ust-Aldan ulus, Hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Denisovich Longinov and Hero of Russia Mikhail Mikhailovich Strekalovsky, who was introduced to the Hero of the Soviet Union, were born.

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, People's Artist of Yakutia, painter Arthur Dmitrievich Vasiliev (born in 1953) left the village of Borogontsy.

In the village of Borogontsy in the family of the rural teacher V.N. Migalkin, the national poet of Yakutia Ivan Vasilievich Migalkin (1954) and the first Yakut consul general of Russia Alexander Vasilievich Migalkin (1958) were born.

National composition

Most of the population is Yakuts (98%).

In the Ust-Aldan ulus there are 35 settlements as part of 21 rural settlements ^[20] :

The leading place in the economy is agriculture. Its main industry is animal husbandry (meat and dairy cattle breeding, meat herd horse breeding, animal husbandry). Agricultural lands make up 148.2 thousand ha. Potatoes, vegetables and cereals are cultivated. The ulus has state farms, associations, and peasant farms. There is a meat and dairy plant, local industry enterprises.

On the territory of the ulus are the Lensky Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve "Friendship" (Sottintsy), the Tandinsky Historical and Revolutionary Museum, the Borogon Museum of Local Lore.

Laureate of the Yakut Komsomol Prize, laureate of international, All-Union, All-Russian festivals and shows, Honored Collective of Folk Art of the Russian Federation, Model Team of Russia, Kencheeri Folk Ensemble, founded in 1972 by the permanent team leader Vasily Stepanovich Parnikov, Honored Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation and RS ( I), in December 2007, for the first time in history during the service in honor of the 375th anniversary of the entry of Yakutia into the Russian state in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, he performed the liturgical works dedicated to the 210th anniversary of St. Innocent in the Yakut language. The performance was one of the highlights of the Days of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) in Moscow.

Dupsun Secondary School named after I.N. Zhirkov, founded in 1862, and the Myurun Secondary School No. 1 named after G.V. Yegorov, founded in 1872, are one of the oldest educational institutions in Yakutia.

The Myurun youth gymnasium "Uolan" named after V.V. Alekseev belongs to the network of presidential schools of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).

A television studio Borogon-TV is operating in the ulus. The newspaper "Mүrү saһargata" is published.

• Official site of Ust-Aldan ulus
• Website of Ust-Aldan Department of Education
• About the Museum-Reserve "Friendship" on the site of the Museum of Yakutia
• About the Friendship Museum-Reserve on the website of the journal Science and Technology in Yakutia