Yanchukan (Russian: Янчука́н) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Severo-Baykalsky District of the Republic of Buryatia, Russia.

As of the 2010 Census, its population was 392.

[2] Urban-type settlement status was granted to Yanchukan in 1982.

[citation needed] Within the framework of administrative divisions, the urban-type settlement (inhabited locality) of Yanchukan is incorporated within Severo-Baykalsky District as Yanchukan Urban-Type Settlement[1] (an administrative division of the district).

[9] As a municipal division, Yanchukan Urban-Type Settlement is incorporated within Severo-Baykalsky Municipal District as Yanchukan Urban Settlement.