Yuryung-Khaya

Yuryung-Khaya (Russian: Юрюнг-Хая, Yakut: Үрүҥ Хайа Ürüŋ xaya) is a rural locality (a selo), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Yuryung-Khainsky National (Dolgan) Rural Okrug of Anabarsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 160 kilometers (99 mi) from Saskylakh, the administrative center of the district.

The village is situated on the right bank of the Anabar River, shortly before it flows into the Laptev Sea.

The village was founded in 1930 as part of Soviet efforts to settle the nomadic indigenous inhabitants of the region.

The village economy is based around agriculture, specifically reindeer herding, fishing and other farming.

It is reachable via a winter road leading upstream along the Anabar to Saskylakh.

View of Yuryung-Khaya from the Anabar River