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Biryuk (rural locality)

human settlement in Neryuktyayinsky 1-y Nasleg, Sakha Republic, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ16842361
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Biryuk (Russian: Бирюк; Yakut: Бүүрүк, Büürük) is a rural locality (a selo), one of four settlements, in addition to Neryuktyayinsk 1-y, Kudu-Byas and Tas-Anna, in Neryuktyayinsky 1-y Rural Okrug of Olyokminsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located 52 kilometers (32 mi) from Olyokminsk, the administrative center of the district and 2 kilometers (1.2 mi) from Neryuktyayinsk 1-y. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 10.

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Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Olyokminsky District. (in Russian)

Государственное Собрание (Ил Тумэн) Республики Саха (Якутия). Закон №173-З №353-III от 30 ноября 2004 г. «Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом городского и сельского поселений муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)», в ред. Закона №1058-З №1007-IV от 25 апреля 2012 г.

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This entry incorporates text from Biryuk (rural locality)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.