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Lensky District, Sakha Republic

Field	Value
en_name	Lensky District
ru_name	Ленский улус
loc_name1	Лиэнскэй улууһа
loc_lang1	Sakha
image_map
map_caption	Location of Lensky District in the Sakha Republic
image_view	145 Скала Хапчагай, Ленский район.jpg
image_caption	Khapchagay Rock in Lensky District
coordinates
image_coa	Coat of Arms of Lensk rayon (Yakutia).png
federal_subject	Sakha Republic
federal_subject_ref
adm_ctr_name	Lensk
adm_ctr_ref
town_of_district_significance_type	Towns
no_of_towns_of_district_significance	1
urban-type_settlement_of_district_significance_type	Settlements
no_of_urban-type_settlements_of_district_significance	2
selsoviet_type1	Rural okrugs
no_of_selsoviets_type1	8
no_of_cities_towns	1
no_of_urban-type_settlements	2
no_of_rural_localities	16
counts_ref
mun_formation1	Lensky Municipal District
mun_formation1_ref
mun_formation1_no_of_urban_settlements	3
mun_formation1_no_of_rural_settlements	8
mun_formation1_counts_ref
area_km2	77000
area_km2_ref
pop_2010census	39765
urban_pop_2010census	87.0%
rural_pop_2010census	13.0%
established_date	January 30, 1930
established_date_ref

|urban-type_settlement_of_district_significance_type=Settlements |no_of_urban-type_settlements_of_district_significance=2 |no_of_urban-type_settlements=2 Lensky District (; , Lienskey uluuha) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the republic and borders Mirninsky District in the north, Suntarsky District in the northeast, Olyokminsky District in the east, and Irkutsk Oblast in the south and west. The area of the district is 77000 km2. Its administrative center is the town of Lensk. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 39,765, with the population of Lensk accounting for 62.8% of that number.

Geography

The main river in the district is the Lena with its tributaries the Vitim, Peleduy, Derba and Nyuya.

Climate

Average January temperature is -32 C and average July temperature is +16 -. Annual precipitation is 300 -.

History

The district was established on January 30, 1930.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Lensky District is one of the thirty-four in the republic. It is divided into one town (an administrative division with the administrative center in the town (inhabited locality) of Lensk), two settlements (administrative divisions with the administrative centers in the urban-type settlements (inhabited localities) of Peleduy and Vitim), and eight rural okrugs (naslegs), all of which comprise sixteen rural localities. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Lensky Municipal District. Within the municipal district, the Town of Lensk is incorporated into Lensk Urban Settlement, the two settlements are incorporated into two urban settlements, and the eight rural okrugs are incorporated into eight rural settlements. The town of Lensk serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

Inhabited localities

Towns/Urban settlements	Population	Inhabited localities in jurisdiction	Settlements/Urban settlements	Population	Inhabited localities in jurisdiction	Rural okrugs/Rural settlements	Population	Rural localities in jurisdiction*
Lensk
(Ленск)	24,966
Vitim
(Витим)	4,376
Peleduy
(Пеледуй)	5,262
Bechenchinsky
(Беченчинский)	786
Murbaysky
(Мурбайский)	350
Natorsky
(Наторский)	441
Nyuysky
(Нюйский)	1,544
Orto-Nakharinsky
(Орто-Нахаринский)	689
Saldykelsky
(Салдыкельский)	424
Tolonsky
(Толонский)	426
Yaroslavsky
(Ярославский)	501

*Administrative centers are shown in bold

Economy

The economy of the district is mostly based on timber industry, production of construction materials, and food industry.

In the district are large oil and gas field such as :

Talakan oil field in Talakan
Chayanda field These gas fields are the base for the Power of Siberia 1 gas pipeline linking Siberia and China.

Demographics

As of the 2021 Census, the ethnic composition was as follows:

Russians: 78.1%
Yakuts: 12.0%
Ukrainians: 0.9%
Kyrgyz: 0.8%
Buryats: 0.7%
Tatars: 0.6%
Tajiks: 0.5%
other ethnicities: 6.4%

References

Notes

Sources

Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Lensky District.

References

Constitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45
Law #172-Z #351-III
Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic
{{ru-pop-ref. 2010Census
Center of the Socioeconomic and Political Monitoring. [https://web.archive.org/web/20020224075358/http://www.sitc.ru/monitoring/lensk/index.shtml Lensky District] {{in lang. ru
Law #173-Z #354-III
{{ru-pop-ref. 2002Census
{{ru-pop-ref. 1989Census
{{ru-pop-ref. 1979Census
"Национальный состав населения". [[Federal State Statistics Service (Russia).

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