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Mastakh 2-y

human settlement in Russia

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Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ16894733 ↗
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Mastakh 2-y (Russian: Мастах 2-й, pronounced Mastakh Vtoroy) is a rural locality (a selo), and one of three settlements in Luchcheginsky 2-y Rural Okrug of Kobyaysky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in addition to Mastakh, the administrative center of the Rural Okrug and Byranattalakh. It is located 282 kilometers (175 mi) from Sangar, the administrative center of the district and 3 kilometers (1.9 mi) from Mastakh. Its population as of the 2002 Census was 23.

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Official website of the Sakha Republic. Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic. Kobyaysky 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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