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Tiksi (; , Tiksii – lit. a moorage place) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the shore of the Buor-Khaya Gulf of the Laptev Sea, southeast of the delta of the Lena River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,063.

Key facts

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Tiksi
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Тикси
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Тиксии
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Yakut
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Tiksi.jpg
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View of Tiksi
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left
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Sakha Republic
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Bulunsky District
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Settlement of Tiksi
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Settlement
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Bulunsky District
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Settlement of Tiksi
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Urban-type settlement
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Bulunsky Municipal District
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Tiksi Urban Settlement
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Bulunsky Municipal District
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Tiksi Urban Settlement

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Contents
  • History
  • Administrative and municipal status
  • Economy
  • Transportation
  • Climate
  • References
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Further reading

Tiksi (; , Tiksii – lit. a moorage place) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the shore of the Buor-Khaya Gulf of the Laptev Sea, southeast of the delta of the Lena River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 5,063.

==History==

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tiksi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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