Vilyuysk
Vilyuysk (; , Bülüü) is a town and the administrative center of Vilyuysky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Vilyuy River (left tributary of the Lena), about from Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 10,234.
Key facts
- Russian inhabited locality.en_name
- Vilyuysk
- Russian inhabited locality.ru_name
- Вилюйск
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_name1
- Бүлүү
- Russian inhabited locality.loc_lang1
- Yakut
- Russian inhabited locality.image_skyline
- Здание администрации Вилюйского улуса - panoramio.jpg
- Russian inhabited locality.map_label_position
- bottom
- Russian inhabited locality.image_coa
- Coat of Arms of Viluysk (Yakutia).png
- Russian inhabited locality.image_flag
- Flag of Viluysk (Yakutia).png
- Russian inhabited locality.federal_subject
- Sakha Republic
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_district_jur
- Vilyuysky District
- Russian inhabited locality.adm_selsoviet_jur
- Vilyuysk
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Vilyuysk (; , Bülüü) is a town and the administrative center of Vilyuysky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the Vilyuy River (left tributary of the Lena), about from Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 10,234.
==History== The first permanent settlement on the site of the present town was a Cossack winter settlement founded in 1634 as Tyukanskoye or Verkhnevilyuyskoye.
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