Namsky District (; , Nam uluuha) is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. The district is located in the center of the republic and borders Ust-Aldansky District in the east, Megino-Kangalassky District in the southeast, the territory of the city of republic significance of Yakutsk in the south, Gorny District in the west, and Kobyaysky District in the north. The area of the district is .Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Namtsy. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 23,198, with the population of Namtsy accounting for 38.3% of that number.
Geography The landscape of the district is the flat territory of the Central Yakutian Lowland. The main river is the Lena with its tributaries, such as the Kenkeme and Khanchaly.Google Earth
Climate Average January temperature is and average July temperature is .Center of the Socioeconomic and Political Monitoring. Namsky District Average annual precipitation is .
History The district was established on February 10, 1930.
Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Namsky District is one of the thirty-four in the republic. It is divided into eighteen rural okrugs (naslegs), which comprise twenty-three rural localities; as well as the selo of Grafsky Bereg, which is not a part of any rural okrug. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Namsky Municipal District. The eighteen rural okrugs and the selo of Grafsky Bereg are incorporated into nineteen rural settlements within the municipal district.Law #173-Z #354-III The selo of Namtsy serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.
Inhabited localities + Administrative/municipal compositionRural okrugs/Rural settlementsPopulationRural localities in jurisdiction*Arbynsky()268selo of SygynnakhBetyunsky()608selo of Byutyay-YurdyaYedeysky()1,219selo of YmyyakhtakhIskrovsky()202selo of Kyureng-AtKebekyonsky()544selo of KharyyalakhLensky()8,890selo of Namtsy (administrative center of the district)Modutsky()986selo of TumulNikolsky()427selo of NikolskyPartizansky()937selo of PartizanSalbansky()345selo of Khongor-BiyeTastakhsky()273selo of YergyolyokhTyubinsky()408selo of BulusFrunzensky()155selo of FrunzeKhamagattinsky()1,727selo of Krest-KytylKhatyn-Arinsky/Khatyn-Arynsky()2,654selo of Appany selo of Kysyl-DerevnyaKhatyryksky()1,084selo of Stolby selo of MaymagaKhomustakhsky 1-y()1,502selo of Kysyl-SyrKhomustakhsky 2-y()812selo of Khatas selo of Voin selo of Taragay-Byas selo of Yuner-OlokhRural localities which are not a part of a rural okrugPopulationSakha Republic Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census. Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам (Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities) Rural localities904selo of Grafsky Bereg
Demographics As of the 2021 Census, the ethnic composition was as follows: Yakuts: 94.9% Russians: 2.2% Evenks: 1.7% others: 1.2%
Notable people Aita Shaposhnikova, poet
References Notes
Sources Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Namsky District.