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Namsky District

Field	Value
en_name	Namsky District
ru_name	Намский улус
loc_name1	Нам улууhа
loc_lang1	Yakut
image_map
map_caption	Location of Namsky District in the Sakha Republic
image_view	Долина Энсиэли.jpg
image_caption	Ensieli Valley in Namsky District
coordinates
image_flag	Flag of Namsky ulus (Yakutia).png
image_coa	Coat of Arms of Namsky rayon (Yakutia).png
federal_subject	Sakha Republic
federal_subject_ref
adm_ctr_name	Namtsy
adm_ctr_ref
selsoviet_type1	Rural okrugs
no_of_selsoviets_type1	18
no_of_rural_localities	24
counts_ref
mun_formation1	Namsky Municipal District
mun_formation1_ref
mun_formation1_no_of_urban_settlements	0
mun_formation1_no_of_rural_settlements	19
mun_formation1_counts_ref
area_km2	11900
area_km2_ref
pop_2010census	23198
urban_pop_2010census	0%
rural_pop_2010census	100%
pop_2010census_ref
established_date	February 10, 1930
established_date_ref
website	https://mr-namskij.sakha.gov.ru

Namsky District (; , Nam uluuha) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. The district is located in the center of the republic and borders Ust-Aldansky District in the east, Megino-Kangalassky District in the southeast, the territory of the city of republic significance of Yakutsk in the south, Gorny District in the west, and Kobyaysky District in the north. The area of the district is 11900 km2. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Namtsy. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 23,198, with the population of Namtsy accounting for 38.3% of that number.

Geography

The landscape of the district is the flat territory of the Central Yakutian Lowland. The main river is the Lena with its tributaries, such as the Kenkeme and Khanchaly.

Climate

Average January temperature is -42 C and average July temperature is +17 -. Average annual precipitation is 200 -.

History

The district was established on February 10, 1930.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Namsky District is one of the thirty-four in the republic. It is divided into eighteen rural okrugs (naslegs), which comprise twenty-three rural localities; as well as the selo of Grafsky Bereg, which is not a part of any rural okrug. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Namsky Municipal District. The eighteen rural okrugs and the selo of Grafsky Bereg are incorporated into nineteen rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Namtsy serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

Inhabited localities

Rural okrugs/Rural settlements	Population	Rural localities in jurisdiction*	Rural localities which are not a part of a rural okrug	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)	Rural localities
Arbynsky
(Арбынский)	268
Betyunsky
(Бетюнский)	608
Yedeysky
(Едейский)	1,219
Iskrovsky
(Искровский)	202
Kebekyonsky
(Кебекёнский)	544
Lensky
(Ленский)	8,890
Modutsky
(Модутский)	986
Nikolsky
(Никольский)	427
Partizansky
(Партизанский)	937
Salbansky
(Салбанский)	345
Tastakhsky
(Тастахский)	273
Tyubinsky
(Тюбинский)	408
Frunzensky
(Фрунзенский)	155
Khamagattinsky
(Хамагаттинский)	1,727
Khatyn-Arinsky/Khatyn-Arynsky
(Хатын-Аринский/Хатын-Арынский)	2,654
Khatyryksky
(Хатырыкский)	1,084
Khomustakhsky 1-y
(Хомустахский 1-й)	1,502
Khomustakhsky 2-y
(Хомустахский 2-й)	812
	904

*Administrative centers are shown in bold

Demographics

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

Yakuts: 94.9%
Russians: 2.2%
Evenks: 1.7%
others: 1.2%

Notable people

Aita Shaposhnikova, poet

References

Notes

Sources

Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Namsky 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
[[Google Earth]]
Center of the Socioeconomic and Political Monitoring. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031028043817/http://www.sitc.ru/monitoring/nam/index.shtml Namsky District] {{in lang. ru
Law #173-Z #354-III
Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the [[Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Federal State Statistics Service]]. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census. [http://sakha.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/sakha/resources/4c22eb804e8ba4699a749f7904886701/01-05.xls Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам] {{Webarchive. link. (March 4, 2016 (''Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities'') {{in lang). ru
"Национальный состав населения". [[Federal State Statistics Service (Russia).
"Писатели Якутии - Аита Шапошникова".

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