Olenyoksky District

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|ru_name=Оленёкский улус

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|established_date=October 1, 1935

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Olenyoksky District ({{langx|ru|Оленёкский улу́с}}; {{langx|sah|Өлөөн улууһа}}, Ölöön uluuha, {{IPA|sah|øløːn uluːha|}}), or Olenyoksky-Evenki National District,{{cite book |last1=Ferguson |first1=Jenanne |title=Words like Birds: Sakha Language Discourses and Practices in the City |date=2019 |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln & London |page=111}} is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the west of the republic and borders with Anabarsky District in the north, Bulunsky and Zhigansky Districts in the east, Vilyuysky, Verkhnevilyuysky, and Nyurbinsky Districts in the southeast, Mirninsky District in the south and southwest, and with Evenkiysky District Krasnoyarsk Krai in the west and northwest. The area of the district is {{convert|318000|km2|sp=us}}.Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Olenyok. Population: {{ru-census2010|4,127|;}} 4,091 (2002 Census);{{ru-pop-ref|2002Census}} {{su-census1989|3,993|.}} The population of Olenyok accounts for 55.1% of the district's total population. With a population density of 0.013 people per square kilometer, Olenyoksky District is one of the most sparsely populated places in the world.

==Geography==

The main rivers in the district are the Olenyok, with its tributaries Arga-Sala (with its tributaries Kengeede, Kukusunda. Kyuyonelikeen and Kyuyonelekeen), Alakit, Siligir, Merchimden, Ukukit, Birekte, Kuoyka and Beyenchime, as well as the Anabar. The largest lake is Lake Eyik, located at the southern end of the district.{{cite web|url=https://maps.vlasenko.net/smtm1000/r-49_50.jpg|title=Топографска карта R-49 50; M 1:1 000 000 - Topographic USSR Chart (in Russian)|access-date=7 February 2022}}

Average January temperature ranges from {{convert|-36|to|-40|C|F}} and average July temperature ranges from {{convert|+12|to|+14|C|F}}.Center of the Socioeconomic and Political Monitoring. [http://www.sitc.ru/monitoring/olenek/index.shtml Olenyoksky District] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921024429/http://www.sitc.ru/monitoring/olenek/index.shtml |date=September 21, 2012 }} {{in lang|ru}}