Ust-Omchug
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Ust-Omchug
Усть-Омчуг | |
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 Ust-Omchug, September 2004 | |
 Interactive map of Ust-Omchug | |
  Ust-Omchug Location of Ust-Omchug  Ust-Omchug Ust-Omchug (Magadan Oblast) | |
| Coordinates: 61°08′03″N 149°37′56″E / 61.13417°N 149.63222°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Magadan Oblast |
| Administrative district | Tenkinsky District |
| Population | |
• Total | 3,914 |
| 3,273 (−16.4%) | |
| Time zone | UTC+11 (MSK+8  [3]) |
| Postal code[4] | 686050 |
| OKTMO ID | 44716000051 |
Ust-Omchug (Russian: Усть-Омчуг) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Tenkinsky District of Magadan Oblast, Russia, located at the 271-kilometer (168 mi) mark of the highway to the northwest of Magadan. Population: 3,914 (2010 census);[1] 4,867 (2002 census);[5] 11,343 (1989 Soviet census).[6]
Urban-type settlement status was granted to Ust-Omchug in 1953.
Some 56 kilometers (35 mi) north from the settlement there are couple of other abandoned settlements that once were part of the TenLag. They are Butugichag and Lower Butugichag. The settlements were part of the Soviet correctional system of GULAG.
Economy
There is an ore-mining and processing plant, a mining equipment repair shop, a timber industry company, and a poultry farming sovkhoz.
