Ust-Maya is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, southeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 2,293.
Geography
Ust-Maya is located on the north bank of the Aldan River opposite the mouth of the Maya River. The Sette-Daban mountain range rises to the east of the town.2
History
Ust-Maya was founded in 1930 as a base for gold mining activities on the Allakh-Yun and Yudoma Rivers to the east. It became the administrative center of the newly created Ust-Maysky District in 1931. During World War II, an airfield was built here for the Alaska-Siberian air route used to ferry American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front.3 In 1957, Ust-Maya was granted urban-type settlement status.4 In 1972, the administrative center of the district was moved to Solnechny, where it remained until 1992, when it was moved back to Ust-Maya.
Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement of Ust-Maya5 serves as the administrative center of Ust-Maysky District.6 As an administrative division, it is, together with one rural locality (the selo of Ust-Yudoma), incorporated within Ust-Maysky District as the Settlement of Ust-Maya.7 As a municipal division, the Settlement of Ust-Maya is incorporated within Ust-Maysky Municipal District as Ust-Maya Urban Settlement.8
Transportation
There are no year-round roads connecting Ust-Maya with outside world; however, winter roads connect it to Eldikan and Amga.
The Ust-Maya Airport (IATA: UMS) is located in the selo of Petropavlovsk, 8 kilometers (5.0 mi) to the southeast.
Climate
Ust-Maya has an extreme subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfd). Winters are extremely cold, while summers are quite warm. Precipitation is quite low and is somewhat higher in summer than at other times of the year.
| Climate data for Ust-Maya (1991-2020, extremes 1893-present) | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | −5.5(22.1) | −2.0(28.4) | 9.4(48.9) | 17.8(64.0) | 30.3(86.5) | 35.3(95.5) | 36.3(97.3) | 34.6(94.3) | 26.4(79.5) | 15.6(60.1) | 5.8(42.4) | −4.9(23.2) | 36.3(97.3) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −34.2(−29.6) | −26.5(−15.7) | −9.9(14.2) | 3.9(39.0) | 14.8(58.6) | 23.5(74.3) | 25.8(78.4) | 22.1(71.8) | 12.5(54.5) | −2.2(28.0) | −21.6(−6.9) | −34.9(−30.8) | −2.2(28.0) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −38.3(−36.9) | −33.6(−28.5) | −19(−2) | −3.1(26.4) | 8.1(46.6) | 16.3(61.3) | 18.9(66.0) | 15.0(59.0) | 6.5(43.7) | −6.5(20.3) | −26(−15) | −38.2(−36.8) | −8.3(17.0) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −41.7(−43.1) | −39.2(−38.6) | −27.9(−18.2) | −10.4(13.3) | 1.8(35.2) | 9.2(48.6) | 12.5(54.5) | 8.9(48.0) | 1.7(35.1) | −10.1(13.8) | −29.9(−21.8) | −41.3(−42.3) | −13.9(7.0) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −60.2(−76.4) | −60(−76) | −54.1(−65.4) | −38.7(−37.7) | −19.2(−2.6) | −5.4(22.3) | −3.1(26.4) | −7.2(19.0) | −17(1) | −38.3(−36.9) | −54.4(−65.9) | −59.4(−74.9) | −60.2(−76.4) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 11.8(0.46) | 8.3(0.33) | 8.1(0.32) | 11.0(0.43) | 28.6(1.13) | 34.3(1.35) | 53.7(2.11) | 50.8(2.00) | 44.5(1.75) | 29.5(1.16) | 19.5(0.77) | 10.9(0.43) | 311(12.24) |
| Average rainy days | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 4 | 0.1 | 0 | 76 |
| Average snowy days | 23 | 20 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 24 | 22 | 128 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 77 | 77 | 71 | 62 | 57 | 62 | 68 | 73 | 75 | 80 | 81 | 78 | 72 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 40 | 124 | 229 | 256 | 283 | 313 | 320 | 245 | 153 | 95 | 75 | 21 | 2,154 |
| Source 1: pogoda.ru.net9 | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: NOAA (sun only, 1961-1990)10 | |||||||||||||
Notes
Sources
- Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Ust-Maysky District. (in Russian)
- Государственное Собрание (Ил Тумэн) Республики Саха (Якутия). Закон №173-З №353-III от 30 ноября 2004 г. «Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом городского и сельского поселений муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)», в ред. Закона №1058-З №1007-IV от 25 апреля 2012 г. «О внесении изменений в Закон Республики Саха (Якутия) "Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом городского и сельского поселений муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)"». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Якутия", №245, 31 декабря 2004 г. (State Assembly (Il Tumen) of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. Law #173-Z No. 353-III of November 30, 2004 On Establishing the Borders and on Granting the Urban and Rural Settlement Status to the Municipal Formations of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, as amended by the Law #1058-Z No. 1007-IV of April 25, 2012 On Amending the Law of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic "On Establishing the Borders and on Granting the Urban and Rural Settlement Status to the Municipal Formations of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic". Effective as of the day of the official publication.).
- Государственное Собрание (Ил Тумэн) Республики Саха (Якутия). Закон №172-З №351-III от 30 ноября 2004 г. «Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом муниципального района муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)», в ред. Закона №1535-З №597-V от 27 ноября 2015 г. «О внесении изменений в статьи 1 и 2 Закона Республики Саха (Якутия) "Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом муниципального района муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)"». Вступил в силу со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Якутия", №245, 31 декабря 2004 г. (State Assembly (Il Tumen) of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. Law #172-Z No. 351-III of November 30, 2004 On Establishing the Borders and on Granting the Municipal District Status to the Municipal Formations of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic, as amended by the Law #1535-Z No. 597-V of November 27, 2015 On Amending Articles 1 and 2 of the Law of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic "On Establishing the Borders and on Granting the Municipal District Status to the Municipal Formations of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic". Effective as of the day of the official publication.).
References
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. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] ↩
ТРРС 3 / 104А. Описание местности (in Russian) http://www.trrlsever.org/SEVER/MILAN/MILAN-1/milan_geo.html ↩
Igor Lebedev. Aviation Lend-Lease to Russia. Nova Publishers, 1997, pp. 44–49 ↩
Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic ↩
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, Ust-Maya is the administrative center of the Settlement of Ust-Maya. ↩
Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic ↩
Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic ↩
Law #173-Z #353-III ↩
"Weather And Climate - Climate Ust-May" (in Russian). Retrieved January 18, 2013. http://pogoda.ru.net/climate/24966.htm ↩
"Climate Normals for Ust-Maja". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (FTP). Retrieved January 20, 2013. (To view documents see Help:FTP) ftp://ftp.atdd.noaa.gov/pub/GCOS/WMO-Normals/RA-II/RA/24966.TXT ↩