Zeya

Zeya is a town in Amur Oblast, Russia, placed on the Zeya River a tributary of the Amur 230 kilometers or 140 mi southeast of Tynda and 532 kilometers or 331 mi north of Blagoveshchensk. It changed into founded in 1879 because the settlement of Zeysky Sklad, lit. Zeya warehouse, as a supply and administrative center for the exploitation of newly determined gold deposits in the Zeya River basin. By 1906, the settlement had grown to over 5,000 population, and become granted city reputation beneath the call Zeya-Pristan, lit Zeya Port. In 1913, the metropolis's name was shortened to Zeya.

The city remained certainly one of Russia's maximum important centers of gold manufacturing until the opening of the Kolyma place in the 1930s. Construction of the Zeya Dam, beginning in 1964, saw a new growth duration for the metropolis. The Zeya Dam is the main financial awareness for the metropolis, with forestry, gold mining and agriculture also carried out within the region. Zeya stories a monsoon stimulated humid continental climate Koppen weather type Dwb with bitterly bloodless, dry winters and short, heat summers.