|
Olyokminsk (; , ''Ölüöxümə'') is a town and the administrative center of Olyokminsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left bank of the Lena River, southwest of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 9,494. ==History== It was founded in 1635〔''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''〕 as an ''ostrog'' by the Cossacks led by Pyotr Beketov, sited on the left bank of the Lena opposite the mouth of the Olyokma River. The outpost was later moved a few kilometers upstream, to a location less prone to flooding in spring. As the junction for river traffic on the Lena and Olyokma, it was the base for Russian expeditions further east and eventually became a trade center on the river route to Yakutsk. Town status was granted to it in 1783. Decembrists Nikolay Chizhov and Andrey Andreyev were exiled here. During World War II, an airfield was built here for the Alaska-Siberian (ALSIB) air route used to ferry American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Eastern Front.〔Igor Lebedev. ''Aviation Lend-Lease to Russia''. Nova Publishers, 1997, pp. 44–49〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olyokminsk」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|