Namy
Namy (Russian: Намы; Yakut: Намыы, romanized: Namıı) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Borogonsky Rural Okrug of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 280 kilometers (170 mi) from Tiksi, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 526, up from 488 recorded during the 2002 Census. Philologist Zoya Basharina is a native of the okrug.
Geography
The village is located north of the Arctic Circle, on the left bank of the Omoloy, upstream of the mouth of the Kuranakh-Yuryakh.
Climate
Namy has a Subarctic or Boreal (taiga) climate (Dfd).
| Climate data for Namy | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 4 (39) |
5 (41) |
0 (32) |
14.8 (58.6) |
27 (81) |
32.6 (90.7) |
31.5 (88.7) |
30.9 (87.6) |
14.4 (57.9) |
6.3 (43.3) |
−7 (19) |
8 (46) |
14.4 (57.9) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −37.9 (−36.2) |
−34.6 (−30.3) |
−22.9 (−9.2) |
−8.9 (16.0) |
2.2 (36.0) |
13.7 (56.7) |
16.3 (61.3) |
13.6 (56.5) |
5.2 (41.4) |
−11.8 (10.8) |
−32.1 (−25.8) |
−34.2 (−29.6) |
−11 (12) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −42.8 (−45.0) |
−42.5 (−44.5) |
−35.9 (−32.6) |
−24 (−11) |
−6.8 (19.8) |
4.7 (40.5) |
6.8 (44.2) |
4 (39) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
−19 (−2) |
−36.9 (−34.4) |
−39.3 (−38.7) |
−19.5 (−3.1) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −60.5 (−76.9) |
−60 (−76) |
−53 (−63) |
−47.2 (−53.0) |
−27.2 (−17.0) |
−5.6 (21.9) |
−3 (27) |
−5 (23) |
−16.5 (2.3) |
−40 (−40) |
−53 (−63) |
−59 (−74) |
−60.5 (−76.9) |
| Average rainfall mm (inches) | 6 (0.2) |
3 (0.1) |
9 (0.4) |
3 (0.1) |
12 (0.5) |
18 (0.7) |
24 (0.9) |
27 (1.1) |
21 (0.8) |
9 (0.4) |
15 (0.6) |
9 (0.4) |
156 (6.1) |
| Average snowy days | 20 | 16 | 14 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 20 | 18 | 21 | 142 |
| Source: | |||||||||||||
References
Notes
- ^ Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic
- ^ Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census. Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine (Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities) (in Russian)
- ^ Sakha Republic (Yakutia) Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Численность населения по районам республики на 1 января 2016 года Archived September 29, 2018, at the Wayback Machine Population of the districts of the republic on January 1, 2016 (in Russian)
- ^ The results of the 2016 estimate are given for Borogonsky Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Bulunsky Municipal District. According to Law #173-Z 353-III, Namy is the only inhabited locality on the territory of Borogonsky Rural Settlement.
- ^ Law #173-Z 353-III
- ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
- ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
- ^ "Писатели Якутии - Зоя Башарина". pnbglaz.narod.ru. Retrieved August 15, 2019.
- ^ "R-53_54 Topographic Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved May 15, 2022.
- ^ Google Earth
- ^ McKnight and Hess, pp. 232–235
- ^ "Weather Averages for Namy from meoweather.com". meoweather.com.
Sources
- Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Bulunsky 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.).
- McKnight, Tom L; Hess, Darrel (2000). "Climate Zones and Types". Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-020263-0.
