En Name: | Amga |
Ru Name: | Амга |
Loc Name1: | Амма |
Loc Lang1: | Sakha |
Coordinates: | 60.8972°N 131.9806°W |
Map Label Position: | right |
Federal Subject: | Sakha Republic |
Adm District Jur: | Amginsky District |
Adm Selsoviet Jur: | Amginsky Rural Okrug |
Adm Selsoviet Type: | Rural okrug |
Adm Ctr Of1: | Amginsky District |
Adm Ctr Of2: | Amginsky Rural Okrug |
Inhabloc Cat: | Rural locality |
Inhabloc Type: | Selo |
Mun District Jur: | Amginsky Municipal District |
Mun District Jur Ref: | [1] |
Rural Settlement Jur: | Amginsky Rural Settlement |
Mun Admctr Of1: | Amginsky Municipal District |
Mun Admctr Of2: | Amginsky Rural Settlement |
Pop 2010Census: | 6533 |
Pop Latest: | 6578 |
Pop Latest Date: | January 2016 |
Pop Latest Ref: | [2] [3] |
Established Date: | 1652 |
Postal Codes: | 678600 |
Dialing Codes: | 41142 |
Amga (Russian: Амга́; Yakut: Амма, Amma) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Amginsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia.[4] It also the only inhabited locality and the administrative center of Amginsky Rural Okrug within Amginsky District. Population:
The name Amga is derived from an Evenk word meaning gorge or ravine.
Amga is located on the Amga River, a right tributary of the Aldan, part of the Lena basin. The Notora has its sources nearby.[5]
It was first founded by the Cossacks in 1652 as the ostrog (fortress) of Amga-Sloboda (Russian: Амга-Слобода). The first church was built in 1680, but it burned down later and was subsequently rebuilt a number of times. Agriculture has been conducted in the area since 1695; it was the first place in Yakutia used for growing crops.
Amga was a place of political exile in the Russian Empire, with the most famous exile being Vladimir Korolenko, who was exiled here for six years in 1879.
It was also the site for fighting during the Russian Civil War.
Somewhere in the area was the old river crossing of Amginsk.[6] From about 1750 to 1850, a horse track led northwest to Yakutsk. Across the river, one route led south to Uda Gulf and the other went southeast to Ust-Maya and from there south to Ayan. From perhaps 1662, there were a few Russian peasants in the area, but agriculture was usually unsuccessful. In 1737, Stepan Krasheninnikov noted that they had abandoned agriculture and were distinguishable from their Yakut neighbors only in religion.
Amga has an extreme subarctic climate (Köppen Dfd)