Russkoye Ustye
| Russkoye Ustye (English) Русское Устье (Russian) Русскай Устье (Sakha) |
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_Republic_(2008-03).svg) Location of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia |
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| Administrative status (as of June 2009) | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Sakha Republic |
| Administrative district | Allaikhovsky District |
| Rural okrug | Russko-Ustinsky Rural Okrug |
| Administrative center of | Russko-Ustinsky Rural Okrug |
| Municipal status (as of April 2012) | |
| Municipal district | Allaikhovsky Municipal District |
| Rural settlement | Russko-Ustinsky Rural Settlement |
| Administrative center of | Russko-Ustinsky Rural Settlement |
| Statistics | |
| Population (2010 Census) | 157 inhabitants |
| Population (January 2016 est.) | 130 inhabitants |
| Time zone | MAGT (UTC+11:00) |
| Postal code(s) | 678805 |
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Russkoye Ustye (Russian: Ру́сское У́стье; Yakut: Русскай Устье) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Russko-Ustinsky Rural Okrug of Allaikhovsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 120 kilometers (75 mi) from Chokurdakh, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 157, down from 181 recorded during the 2002 Census. For several decades during the Soviet era, it was officially called Polyarnoye (Поля́рное).
The locality's name is probably based on the name of the river channel on which it is located, and which, too, has been known historically as the Russkoye Ustye. These days the channel is also known under the name Russko-Ustyinskaya Protoka that is formed from the locality's name. The original name of the channel, Russkoye Ustye, can be loosely translated as "the westernmost arm" [of the river delta], or the "westernmost river mouth". The noun ustye means "the river mouth" and the adjective Russkoye ("Russian") apparently refers to this channel's being the one located the farthest to the west (i.e., the one closest to [European] Russia). Similarly, the easternmost channel of the delta has been known as the Kolymskoye Ustye, i.e., the river mouth closest to the Kolyma (the Indigirka's neighbor to the east).
Russkoye Ustye is located in the delta of the Indigirka River, about 80 kilometers (50 mi) from the fall of the main western channel of the Indigirka's delta into the East Siberian Sea of the Arctic Ocean.
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