Bulunsky District
municipal district in Russia
Bulunsky District (Russian: Булу́нский улу́с; Yakut: Булуҥ улууһа, Buluŋ uluuha) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is the most northerly district of the republic, and includes the offshore New Siberian Islands. Bulunsky borders Ust-Yansky District in the east, Verkhoyansky District in the southeast, Eveno-Bytantaysky and Zhigansky Districts in the south, Olenyoksky District in the west, and Anabarsky District in the northwest. The area of the district is 223,600 square kilometers (86,300 sq mi). Its administrative center is the urban-type settlement of Tiksi. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 9,054, with the population of Tiksi accounting for 55.9% of that number.
Geography
The district is washed by the Laptev Sea in the north. The main river in the district is the Lena, with its tributaries Eyekit, Molodo and Syungyude. Other rivers include the Olenyok, with the Khorbusuonka and the Kyuyutingde, as well as the Omoloy and the Khara-Ulakh. There are many lakes in the Lena River delta.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Bulunsky District” as municipal district in Russia. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as municipal district in Russia. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q572266. Authority coordinates are 70.682, 127.356. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010.
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