Neryungri

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title: "Neryungri" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cities-and-towns-in-the-sakha-republic", "cities-and-towns-built-in-the-soviet-union", "socialist-planned-cities", "populated-places-established-in-1975", "former-urban-type-settlements-of-the-sakha-republic"] description: "Town in Sakha Republic, Russia" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neryungri" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Town in Sakha Republic, Russia ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox Russian inhabited locality"]

Field	Value
en_name	Neryungri
ru_name	Нерюнгри
loc_name1	Нүөрүҥгүрү
loc_lang1	Yakut
image_skyline	Нерюнгри. Улица Кравченко.JPG
image_caption	Kravchenko Street in Neryungri
coordinates
map_label_position	top
image_coa	Coat of Arms of Neryungri (Yakutia).png
image_flag	Flag of Neryungrinsky rayon (2003).png
federal_subject	Sakha Republic
federal_subject_ref
adm_district_jur	Neryungrinsky District
adm_district_jur_ref
adm_selsoviet_jur	Neryungri
adm_selsoviet_type	Town
adm_selsoviet_jur_ref
adm_ctr_of1	Neryungrinsky District
adm_ctr_of1_ref
adm_ctr_of2	Town of Neryungri
adm_ctr_of2_ref
inhabloc_cat	Town
inhabloc_cat_ref
inhabloc_type	Town under republic jurisdiction
inhabloc_type_ref
mun_district_jur	Neryungrinsky Municipal District
mun_district_jur_ref
urban_settlement_jur	Neryungri Urban Settlement
urban_settlement_jur_ref
mun_admctr_of1	Neryungrinsky Municipal District
mun_admctr_of1_ref
mun_admctr_of2	Neryungri Urban Settlement
mun_admctr_of2_ref
pop_2010census	61747
pop_2010census_rank	260th
pop_2010census_ref
current_cat_date	1975
current_cat_date_ref
postal_codes	678960, 678962, 678965, 678967, 678985, 678999
dialing_codes	41147
::

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Etymology

The name of the town is believed to come from Evenki Ньируунгра nyuruungra, meaning "river of graylings".

History

It was founded due to the development of the nearby coal basin and was granted town status in 1975.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Neryungri serves as the administrative center of Neryungrinsky District. As an inhabited locality, Neryungri is classified as a town under republic jurisdiction. As an administrative division, it is incorporated within Neryungrinsky District as the Town of Neryungri. As a municipal division, the Town of Neryungri is incorporated within Neryungrinsky Municipal District as Neryungri Urban Settlement.

Economy

The town is the center of a large coal field discovered about 1970. It is located on the Amur–Yakutsk Mainline and the Lena Highway, 202 km by rail north of Tynda. Nearby, all in the coal basin, are Berkakit: 10 km south; Serebryany Bor: 8 km east with a thermal coal power plant; Chulman: 30 km north, with the Chulman Airport; and a large open pit coal mine northwest across the Chulman River.

Climate

Neryungri has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc) bordering with wet summer subarctic climate Dwc with mild summers and severe winters. Precipitation is moderate, but is significantly higher in the summer than at other times of the year. The climate is extremely cold for the latitude in part due to the Siberian High bringing extremely cold polar air to the city in winters, whereas the relatively high elevation and proximity to the cold Sea of Okhotsk usually prevents the heat waves seen in lower areas of Sakha.

| open =y | metric first = yes | single line =y | location = Neryungri | Jan record high C = -5.6 | Feb record high C = -1.2 | Mar record high C = 7.4 | Apr record high C = 17.6 | May record high C = 28.1 | Jun record high C = 34.6 | Jul record high C = 34.8 | Aug record high C = 33.1 | Sep record high C = 26.3 | Oct record high C = 17.7 | Nov record high C = 4.6 | Dec record high C = -1.8 | year record high C = 34.8 | Jan high C = −26.2 | Feb high C = −20.1 | Mar high C = −10.2 | Apr high C = 0.4 | May high C = 10.4 | Jun high C = 20.2 | Jul high C = 22.3 | Aug high C = 19.2 | Sep high C = 9.8 | Oct high C = −2.7 | Nov high C = −17.3 | Dec high C = −26.7

| Jan mean C = −29.8 | Feb mean C = −24.7 | Mar mean C = −15.4 | Apr mean C = −4.5 | May mean C = 5.0 | Jun mean C = 13.9 | Jul mean C = 16.5 | Aug mean C = 13.3 | Sep mean C = 4.8 | Oct mean C = −6.8 | Nov mean C = −21.0 | Dec mean C = −30.1

| Jan low C = −33.2 | Feb low C = −29.0 | Mar low C = −20.7 | Apr low C = −9.6 | May low C = 0.0 | Jun low C = 7.9 | Jul low C = 11.2 | Aug low C = 8.1 | Sep low C = 0.4 | Oct low C = −10.5 | Nov low C = −24.6 | Dec low C = −33.4

| Jan record low C = −61.0 | Feb record low C = −56.9 | Mar record low C = −49.8 | Apr record low C = −37.0 | May record low C = −21.6 | Jun record low C = −6.4 | Jul record low C = −3.7 | Aug record low C = −8.0 | Sep record low C = −18.9 | Oct record low C = −38.7 | Nov record low C = −50.8 | Dec record low C = −57.9 | year record low C = −61.0 | Jan precipitation mm =15.7 | Feb precipitation mm =12.6 | Mar precipitation mm =15.6 | Apr precipitation mm =30.8 | May precipitation mm =59.7 | Jun precipitation mm =82.0 | Jul precipitation mm =111.9 | Aug precipitation mm =95.0 | Sep precipitation mm =84.7 | Oct precipitation mm =52.5 | Nov precipitation mm =27.3 | Dec precipitation mm =16.5 | source = |}}

References

Notes

Sources

• Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Neryungrinsky District.

References

1. Law #172-Z #351-III
2. {{ru-pop-ref. 2010Census
3. {{ru-pop-ref. 2002Census
4. {{ru-pop-ref. 1989Census
5. {{ru-pop-ref. 1979Census
6. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
7. Law #173-Z #353-III
8. "weather for neryungri".

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