The city of Neryungri is located in the Far Eastern Federal District and is the administrative center of the Neryungri district of the Republic of Sakha, also known as Yakutia. From the capital of Yakutia, the city of Yakutsk, Neryungri is located 820 kilometers, if you use the Lena highway.
The story of the appearance of Neryungri
The population of the small tent camp, created in 1940 in the Chulman River Valley, consisted exclusively of members of a geological exploration expedition. Soviet geologists arrived in this far corner of the Sahi with the intention of discovering a new gold deposit.
It is worth saying that already from the end of the seventeenth century Russian colonists and researchers arrived in this region, but for a long time in such a harsh climate they did not stop and moved on in search of new peoples and rich in fur forests.
Gold digger parking
In fact, a permanent tent settlement appeared at the mouth of the Neryungra River in 1952, simultaneously with the founding of the exploration party. However, the first overburden was made only eleven years later - in 1963. Four years later, coal mining began in the area of the campground and multi-storey buildings began to appear, which later formed a modern urban settlement.
