Khoro, Verkhnevilyuysky District, Sakha Republic

Khoro (English)
Хоро (Russian)
-  Rural locality[1]  -
Selo[1]

Location of the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic in Russia
Khoro
Location of Khoro in the Sakha (Yakutia) Republic
Coordinates: 63°32′02″N 120°04′08″E / 63.53389°N 120.06889°ECoordinates: 63°32′02″N 120°04′08″E / 63.53389°N 120.06889°E
Administrative status (as of June 2009)
Country Russia
Federal subject Sakha Republic[1]
Administrative district Verkhnevilyuysky District[1]
Rural okrug Khorinsky Rural Okrug[1]
Administrative center of Khorinsky Rural Okrug[1]
Municipal status (as of April 2012)
Municipal district Verkhnevilyuysky Municipal District[2]
Rural settlement Khorinsky Rural Settlement[2]
Administrative center of Khorinsky Rural Settlement[2]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census) 1,221 inhabitants[3][4]
Time zone YAKT (UTC+09:00)[5]

Khoro (Russian: Хоро) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Khorinsky Rural Okrug of Verkhnevilyuysky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 15 kilometers (9.3 mi) from Verkhnevilyuysk, the administrative center of the district. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 1,221,[3][4] of whom 607 were male and 614 female, up from 1,131 as recorded during the 2002 Census.[1]

History

According to the legend, the village was settled by Khoro tribes from the Lena basin, who fled to this area to escape their Yakut oppressors. The village is first mentioned in written sources in connection with the annexaction of Yakutia by the Russian Empire. In 1634, Russian Cossacks, headed by Voin Shakhov, established a winter settlement at the confluence of the Vilyuy and Tyuken Rivers. This settlement served as the administrative center of the area for several decades, after which it was moved to the Yolyonnyokh area 45 kilometers (28 mi) down by the Vilyuy River, where the Ostrog (fortified settlement) of Olensk (now Vilyuysk) was founded in 1773.

The village in its modern form was established in 1952 by merging four neighboring kolkhozes. Until 2003, the official name of the village was Bulgunnyakhtakh (Булгунняхтах); after the post office.

References

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Law #173-Z 353-III
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 This figure is given for Khorinsky Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Verkhnevilyuysky Municipal District. According to Law #173-Z 353-III, Khoro is the only inhabited locality on the territory of this municipal formation.
  5. ↑ Правительство Российской Федерации. Федеральный закон №107-ФЗ от 3 июня 2011 г. «Об исчислении времени», в ред. Федерального закона №248-ФЗ от 21 июля 2014 г. «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "Об исчислении времени"». Вступил в силу по истечении шестидесяти дней после дня официального опубликования (6 августа 2011 г.). Опубликован: "Российская газета", №120, 6 июня 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Federal Law #107-FZ of June 31, 2011 On Calculating Time, as amended by the Federal Law #248-FZ of July 21, 2014 On Amending Federal Law "On Calculating Time". Effective as of after sixty days following the day of the official publication.).

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