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Khara-Tumul

human settlement in Sakha Republic, Russia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ16893323 ↗
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Khara-Tumul (Russian: Хара-Тумул) is a rural locality (a selo) in Borogonsky 1-y Rural Okrug of Oymyakonsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located 615 kilometers (382 mi) from Ust-Nera, the administrative center of the district and 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from Oymyakon, the administrative center of the rural okrug. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 244.

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Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Oymyakonsky 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. «О внесении изменений в Закон Республики Саха (Якутия) "Об установлении границ и о наделении статусом городского и сельского поселений муниципальных образований Республики Саха (Якутия)"».

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This entry incorporates text from “Khara-Tumul” 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.