Mirny

Mirny is a town and the place of work of Mirninsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, positioned at the Irelyakh River Vilyuy's basin, 820 kilometers west of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its populace was 37,188 Mirny changed into founded in 1955 after the invention of a nearby kimberlite pipe by way of an excursion led with the aid of Yury Khabardin quotation wanted Town repute was granted to it in 1959.

The Mir mine is placed inside the town. It is an open pit mine, which, with the depth of 525 meters and a diameter of 1.25 kilometers is reckoned to be the fourth largest inside the world. Production became stopped in 2004, and the mine turned into completely closed in 2011, because of reduced recuperation and the fees of working inside the a long way northern climate. The city is served by the Mirny Airport. Safety issues have been raised approximately plane operations close to to the open diamond mine; helicopters are forbidden to bypass over the abandoned workings.