Svetly, Sakha Republic

For other places with the same name, see Svetly (inhabited locality).
Svetly (English)
Светлый (Russian)
Сибиэтлэй (Yakut)
-  Urban-type settlement[1]  -
Urban-type settlement[2]

In Svetly

Location of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia
Svetly
Location of Svetly in the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic
Coordinates: 63°03′N 113°27′E / 63.050°N 113.450°E / 63.050; 113.450Coordinates: 63°03′N 113°27′E / 63.050°N 113.450°E / 63.050; 113.450
Administrative status (as of June 2009)
Country Russia
Federal subject Sakha Republic[1]
Administrative district Mirninsky District[1]
Settlement Svetly[1]
Administrative center of Settlement of Svetly[1]
Municipal status (as of April 2012)
Municipal district Mirninsky Municipal District[3]
Urban settlement Svetly Urban Settlement[3]
Administrative center of Svetly Urban Settlement[3]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census) 3,137 inhabitants[4]
Time zone YAKT (UTC+09:00)[5]
Founded 1970s
Urban-type settlement status since 1984[1]
Postal code(s)[6] 678196
Svetly on Wikimedia Commons
Svetly population
2010 Census 3,137[4]
2002 Census 3,546[7]
1989 Census 4,550[8]

Svetly (Russian: Све́тлый, lit light, clear; Yakut: Сибиэтлэй) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Mirninsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 75 kilometers (47 mi) from Mirny, the administrative center of the district,[1] on the southern edge of the Vilyuy Plateau (a part of the Central Siberian Plateau), not far from the right bank of the Vilyuy River. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 3,137.[4]

History

It was founded in the late 1970s as a works base for construction of a dam and hydroelectric plant, downstream of the larger Vilyuy Dam. With the economic difficulties in the Soviet Union during the 1980s and in Russia during the 1990s, completion of the project was greatly delayed with the hydroelectric plant only beginning power generation between 2004 and 2008, with three of the four planned turbines in operation.

Urban-type settlement status was granted to Svetly in 1984.[1]

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of Svetly[2] is incorporated within Mirninsky District as the Settlement of Svetly.[1] As a municipal division, the Settlement of Svetly is incorporated within Mirninsky Municipal District as Svetly Urban Settlement.[3]

Economy

Vilyuyskaya GES-3 hydroelectric plant, with a capacity of 270 MW, is the principal employer. The power plant is managed by a daughter company of diamond mining corporation ALROSA. Many of the settlement's inhabitants also commute for week-by-week shift work in remote diamond mines or in construction projects throughout the western region of the Sakha Republic, including the Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean oil pipeline.

Svetly is connected by a 33-kilometer (21 mi) road with the Anabar Highway between Mirny and Chernyshevsky. The Evenk village of Syuldyukar lies 25 kilometers (16 mi) downstream along the Vilyuy and can be reached by boat in summer or via winter roads when the river is frozen.

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic
  2. 1 2 According to Article 7 of the Law #77-I, lower-level administrative divisions with the status of a settlement have their administrative centers in an inhabited locality with the status of an urban-type settlement. According to the Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic, Svetly is the administrative center of the Settlement of Svetly.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Law #173-Z 353-III
  4. 1 2 3 Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  5. Правительство Российской Федерации. Федеральный закон №107-ФЗ от 3 июня 2011 г. «Об исчислении времени», в ред. Федерального закона №271-ФЗ от 03 июля 2016 г. «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "Об исчислении времени"». Вступил в силу по истечении шестидесяти дней после дня официального опубликования (6 августа 2011 г.). Опубликован: "Российская газета", №120, 6 июня 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Federal Law #107-FZ of June 31, 2011 On Calculating Time, as amended by the Federal Law #271-FZ of July 03, 2016 On Amending Federal Law "On Calculating Time". Effective as of after sixty days following the day of the official publication.).
  6. Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (Russian)
  7. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian). Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  8. Demoscope Weekly (1989). "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров" [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. Retrieved August 9, 2014.

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