Namsky District

Namsky District (На́мский улу́с; Нам улууһа, Nam uluuha) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. The district is located in the center of the republic and borders Ust-Aldansky District in the east, Megino-Kangalassky District in the southeast, the territory of the city of republic significance of Yakutsk in the south, Gorny District in the west, and Kobyaysky District in the north. The area of the district is 11900 km2. Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Namtsy. As of the 2010 Census, the total population of the district was 23,198, with the population of Namtsy accounting for 38.3% of that number.

Geography
The landscape of the district is the flat territory of the Central Yakutian Lowland. The main river is the Lena with its tributaries, such as the Kenkeme and Khanchaly.

Climate
Average January temperature is -42 C and average July temperature is +17 - +18 C. Average annual precipitation is 200 - 250 mm.

History
The district was established on February 10, 1930.

Administrative and municipal status
Within the framework of administrative divisions, Namsky District is one of the thirty-four in the republic. It is divided into eighteen rural okrugs (naslegs), which comprise twenty-three rural localities; as well as the selo of Grafsky Bereg, which is not a part of any rural okrug. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Namsky Municipal District. The eighteen rural okrugs and the selo of Grafsky Bereg are incorporated into nineteen rural settlements within the municipal district. The selo of Namtsy serves as the administrative center of both the administrative and municipal district.

Inhabited localities

 * Administrative centers are shown in bold

Demographics
As of the 2021 Census, the ethnic composition was as follows:
 * Yakuts: 94.9%
 * Russians: 2.2%
 * Evenks: 1.7%
 * others: 1.2%

Notable people

 * Aita Shaposhnikova, poet