Allach-Jun

Also known as Allakh-Yun'

Allakh-Yun (; ) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located from Ust-Maya, the administrative center of the district, in the Yudoma-Maya Highlands on the right bank of the Allakh-Yun River, after which it was named. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 96.

Key facts

Russian inhabited locality.en_name: Allakh-Yun
Russian inhabited locality.ru_name: Аллах-Юнь
Russian inhabited locality.loc_name1: Ааллаах Үүн
Russian inhabited locality.loc_lang1: Yakut
Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position: left
Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject: Sakha Republic
Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur: Ust-Maysky District
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur: Settlement of Allakh-Yun
Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_type: Settlement
Russian inhabited locality.adm_ctr_of: Settlement of Allakh-Yun
Russian inhabited locality.inhabloc_cat: Urban-type settlement
Russian inhabited locality.mun_district_jur: Ust-Maysky Municipal District
Russian inhabited locality.pop_2010census: 96
Russian inhabited locality.established_date: 1930s
Russian inhabited locality.current_cat_date: 1937
Russian inhabited locality.postal_codes: 678640

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Population: 35
Elevation: 564

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postal code: 678640
inception: 1930-00-00
native label: Аллах-Юнь

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==History== It was founded in the 1930s as the first gold prospecting center in the region and was granted urban-type settlement status in 1937. The surrounding territory was separated out of Ust-Maysky District in 1940 as Allakh-Yunsky District, with the administrative center in Allakh-Yun. In 1948, the administrative center was moved to Eldikan and in 1953, the district was merged back into Ust-Maysky District. With the cessation of mining activities in the 1990s, almost the entire population left.