Yugoryonok (Russian: Югорёнок) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Ust-Maysky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 350 kilometers (220 mi) from Ust-Maya, the administrative center of the district,[2] in a highly isolated region on the right bank of the Yudoma River.

[3] It was founded in 1940 at a river port on the Yudoma, for use as a service base for the nearby goldfields.

[citation needed] It was initially administered from Yur, located about 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) away.

With the cessation of gold mining in the 1970s, Yur was abandoned,[citation needed] and Yugoryonok was granted urban-type settlement status in 1978.

[4] Yugoryonok is located at the end of a 300-kilometer (190 mi) road linking it with Eldikan on the Aldan River and the other gold-mining settlements in the area (now mostly abandoned).