Vilyuysk

Vilyuysk is a city and the workplace of Vilyuysky District within the Sakha Republic, Russia, positioned on the Vilyuy River left tributary of the Lena, about 600 kilometers from Yakutsk, the capital of the republic. As of the 2010 Census, its population changed into 10,234. The first everlasting settlement on the website online of the prevailing town was a Cossack winter settlement founded in 1634 as Tyukanskoye or Verkhnevilyuyskoye.

Members of the peasant rebel led by using Yemelyan Pugachev were exiled to the vicinity in the 1770s, constructing the brand new metropolis of Olensk in 1783. The metropolis's name turned into derived from the Russian word olen, that means "stag", as nevertheless seen in the city's symbols. The metropolis was renamed Vilyuysk after the river on which it stands in 1821. The Vilyuysk Airport is located close to the metropolis. Vilyuysk has a really continental subarctic weather Koppen weather category Dfc. Precipitation is quite low, but is drastically better in summer season than at different times of the year