People's encyclopedia "My City". Lensk (Republic of Sakha (Yakutia))

Lensk

(The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia))

OKATO code:
98227501
Founded:
before 1663
Urban settlement since:
1957
City since:
1963 City of district subordination (Lensky district of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia))
Center:
Lensky district
The city was formerly called:


Mukhtuya	1963

Telephone code (reference phone)
41137*****	09-1-11

Deviation from Moscow time, hours:
6
Geographic latitude:
60°43′
Geographic longitude:
114°54′
Altitude above sea level, meters:
180 Sunrise and sunset times in the city of Lensk

Culture

The city has a branch of the Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering and representative offices of: Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management and Irkutsk State Technical University. There are six secondary schools in the city. There is a local history museum. It has six sections: ethnographic, flora and fauna, Russian life, Yakut hut, modern and numismatics. The city also has a children's art school (formerly a music school) and many dance groups. Three radio stations broadcast in Lensk: 1) STV-Radio, FM 100.4; 2) AutoRadio and Diamond Edge, FM 105.0. 3) Retro FM, FM 103.9.

In the art hall of the Central Library you can always see exhibitions of artists and photographers, both beginners and already famous ones, evenings and presentations are held. There is a literary association "Flamingo". Some Lenchan residents were even accepted into the Russian Writers' Union: Ivan Pereverzin, Nikolai Soin, Boris Lapardin and Sergei Moskvitin. Lensk is also rich in recognized artists: Lemyakin. V. D., V. Stadnik, V. Kudrin, N. Kudrina, K. Kudrina, L. Tartyeva, V. Indeev, V. Balaev, G. Ineshin.

Map

Lensk: maps

Lensk: photo from space (Google Maps) Lensk: photo from space (Microsoft Virtual Earth)

Lensk. Nearest cities. Distances in km. on the map (in brackets along roads) + direction. Using the hyperlink in the *distance* , you can get the route (information courtesy of the AutoTransInfo website)
1	Peaceful	208 ()	WITH
2	Suntar	215 ()	NE
3	Mom (Irkutsk region)	291 ()	SW
4	Olekminsk	304 ()	IN
5	Bodaibo	321 ()	YU
6	Nyurba	336 ()	NE
7	Erbogachen (Irkutsk region)	376 ()	Z

a brief description of

Located on the Prilensky plateau, on the left bank of the Lena, 840 km (by air) west of Yakutsk. Large river port. Connected by road with the city of Mirny.

Territory (sq. km): 4222

Information about the city of Lensk on the Russian Wikipedia site

Historical sketch

Founded no later than 1663 as a settlement of “industrial” people on the site of the Evenki camp Mukhtui (Mukhtukuevskaya village).

In the 1730s. To serve the 2nd Kamchatka expedition of V. Bering, the Yamskaya (postal) station Mukhtuya was opened.

In the 19th - early 20th centuries. - a place of political exile.

The city grew in connection with the discovery and development of diamond deposits in the Vilyuya basin. The village of Mukhtuya (Evenki “big water”), as the closest (280 km) Lena village to the Mir kimberlite pipe, became the base for the construction of the city of Mirny. In 1956, construction of a road began from Mukhtui to the future Mirny, and the first berths of the port were built.

Since 1957, the working village of Mukhtuya. City of Lensk since 1963. Name after the river. Lena, on which it is located.

Municipal indicators

Index	2001
Demography
Number of births, per 1000 population	12.2
Number of deaths, per 1000 population	15
Natural increase (decrease), per 1000 population	-2.8
Standard of living of the population and social sphere
Average monthly nominal accrued wages, rub.	8184
Average housing area per inhabitant (at the end of the year), sq.m.	23.8
Number of preschool institutions, pcs.	9
Number of children in preschool institutions, thousand people	1.2
Number of daytime educational institutions (at the beginning of the school year), pcs.	7
Number of students in daytime educational institutions, thousand people	4.260
Number of doctors, people.	83
Number of nursing staff, people.	220
Number of hospital institutions, pcs.	5
Number of hospital beds, thousand units	0.4
Number of medical outpatient clinics, pcs.	3
Capacity of medical outpatient clinics, visits per shift, thousand units.	0.5
Number of registered crimes, pcs.	635
Persons who committed crimes were identified, persons.	502
Economy, industry
Number of enterprises and organizations (at the end of the year), pcs.	1063
Construction
Volume of work performed by type of activity “Construction” (until 2004 - volume of work performed under construction contracts), million rubles.	275
Commissioning of residential buildings, thousand sq.m. of total area	86.7
Commissioning of residential buildings, apartments	1519
Commissioning of preschool institutions, places	0
Commissioning of educational institutions, places	0
Commissioning of hospital facilities, beds	0
Commissioning of outpatient clinics, visits per shift	0
Transport
Number of bus routes (in intracity traffic), pcs.	11
Number of passengers transported by buses per year (in intracity traffic), million people.	3.9
Connection
Number of residential telephone sets of the city public telephone network, thousand units.	3.6
Trade and services to the population
Retail trade turnover (in actual prices), million rubles.	660
Retail trade turnover (in actual prices), per capita, rub.	24810.2
Public catering turnover (in actual prices), million rubles.	55
Volume of paid services to the population (in actual prices), million rubles.	138
Volume of paid services to the population (in actual prices), per capita, rub.	5190
Volume of household services to the population (in actual prices), million rubles.	5.9
Volume of household services to the population (in actual prices), per capita, rub.	221.1
Investments
Investments in fixed assets (in actual prices), million rubles.	289.4
Share of investments in fixed assets financed from budgetary funds in the total volume of investments, %	10.2

Data sources:

Regions of Russia. Main characteristics of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation: statistical collection. Goskomstat of Russia. - M:, 2003.

Economy

A large port for receiving and transporting cargo for the diamond mining industry of Yakutia.

NPO "Yakutalmaz", forestry and woodworking industry enterprises, a building materials plant, a large-panel house-building plant. Food enterprises.

In the Lensky ulus, grain crops, potatoes, and vegetables are grown. They raise cattle, horses, pigs, rabbits, and deer.

Deposits of oil and gas, gold, ornamental stones, mica, table salt, etc.

Main enterprises

FORESTRY, WOOD PROCESSING AND PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY

JSC "Vitimsky LPH"
678150, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Lensky district, Vitim village, st.
Oktyabrskaya, 5 Offers:
Business timber, lumber

INLAND WATER TRANSPORT

JSK "Lena United River Shipping Company" /ASK "LORP"/
677000, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Lensky district, Lensk, st.
Dzerzhinskogo, 2 Offers:
Transportation and ship repair, communication and radio navigation services

Culture, science, education

Branch of the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute.

Expeditions: geophysical, oil and gas exploration, NPO Lenaneftegazgeologiya.

Museum of History and Local Lore.

Universities of the city

Branch of the Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (Sibstrin) in Lensk
678141, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), Lensky district, Lensk, st. Oyunskogo, 36

Architecture, sights

The main streets of Lensk are lined with multi-storey buildings. On the embankment there is a square with an obelisk monument in memory of the residents of Mukhtui who died during the Great Patriotic War of 1941-45.

7 km southwest of Lensk there is a karst cave with a 25-meter waterfall and a karst lake.

Population by year (thousands of inhabitants)
1939	2.2	1996	29.3	2007	24.5	2015	23.7
1959	7.9	1998	28.4	2008	24.5	2016	23.7
1967	19	2000	27.5	2010	24.4	2017	23.7
1970	16.8	2001	27.3	2011	25.0	2018	23.5
1979	24.0	2003	24.6	2012	24.7	2019	23.2
1989	30.3	2005	24.6	2013	24.3	2020	23.2
1992	30.9	2006	24.6	2014	23.9	2021	23.3

Geography

The city is located on the left bank of the Lena River, on the Prilensky Plateau, 840 km from Yakutsk.

Climate

Average annual air temperature - −5.4 °C
Relative air humidity - 71.4%
Average wind speed - 9.3 km/h

Average daily air temperature in Lensk for the period 1980−2000[2].

Jan

Feb

Mar

Apr

May

Jun

Jul

Aug

Sep

Oct

But I

Dec

Year

−28.8 °C

−23.6 °C

−15.0 °C

−3.6 °C

6.3 °C

14.2 °C

17.7 °C

14.1 °C

5.4 °C

−4.9 °C

−19.8 °C

−27.0 °C

−5.4 °C

Climate of Lensk
Index	Jan.	Feb.	March	Apr.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Year
Absolute maximum	−0,1	2,2	12,6	18,9	33,0	39,0	37,3	36,3	27,2	17,2	8,0	4,7	39,0
Average maximum, °C	−25,3	−20,3	−8,4	2,2	11,6	21,1	23,9	20,1	11,1	−1,5	−15,6	−24,1	−0,9
Average temperature, °C	−29	−25,6	−15,4	−3,6	6,1	14,7	17,7	14,0	5,8	−5,3	−19,5	−27,9	−6,1
Average minimum, °C	−34,1	−32,2	−24,3	−11,9	−1,1	6,7	10,0	7,1	0,3	−10,2	−24,9	−32,8	−12,7
Absolute minimum, °C	−55,8	−56,1	−47,2	−37,8	−15	−5,9	−3	−5,5	−12,8	−32,8	−48,9	−56,1	−56,1
Precipitation rate	25	23	19	14	13	12	12	15	18	25	27	26	227
Source: [climatebase.ru/station/24923/ Climate data archive]

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Sport

In 2007, the qualifying games for the First Futsal World Cup took place in Lensk.

Volleyball was well developed in Lensk until 2007, VC Alrosa played then in League B. Yuri Shustov (now coaching the youth team), Yuri Fedorenko, Alexander Klaus, Yuri Girich, Vladimir Yagnyshev made a very big contribution

In 2010, Lena volleyball players took 2nd place in the championship of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Team composition: Vladimir Komkov, Nikita Vagin, Nikita Ivanov, Evgeny Pozur, Vladimir Mamontov, Konstantin Sobko, Sergey Kunichkin, Vladlen Zagornyak.

In 2011 - 3rd place at the same championship: Nikita Ishkov, Maxim Arzamaskin, Evgeny Pozur, Vladlen Zagornyak, Ilya Antipin, Alexey Afanasyev, Victor Mikhailov, Maxim Ivakhnov, Nikita Ivanov

In 2012, Lena girl Yulia Farkhutdinova won the “Russian Top Model” program[18]. in 2014 took 1st place at the republican championship

Gallery

320 Lensk. Stele in honor of the pioneers.jpg
Embankment and stele in honor of the pioneers
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View of the embankment from the river
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City view
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Monument to coachmen (“Troika”) - one of the most beautiful places in the city
315 Lensk. Yagnysheva Boulevard.jpg
Boulevard named after Yagnyshev
332 Lensk. St. Lenina.jpg
Lenin Street
219 “Demyan Bedny” in Lensk at the pier.jpg
Marina
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Ice drift

Economy

The leading sectors of the economy are river and road transportation. The diamond mining and joint-stock oil transport company Transneft have their divisions in Lensk.

The main enterprises of the city:

forestry and woodworking industry enterprises[16];
building materials plant;
large-panel house-building plant;
food enterprises;
LLC GDK Lensk-Gaz Lenskoye LPUMG LLC Gazprom transgaz Tomsk OJSC Gazprom;
Lenskoe RNU Transneft-Vostok LLC JSC AK Transneft.