Verkhnekolymsky District
Verkhnekolymsky District (; , Üöhee Xalıma uluuha, ) is an administrative and municipal district (raion, or ulus), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the republic and borders with Srednekolymsky District in the north and northeast, Srednekansky District and Susumansky District of Magadan Oblast in the east and south, Momsky District in the west, and with Abyysky District in the northwest. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the urban locality (a settlement) of Zyryanka. Population:  5,653 (2002 Census);  The population of Zyryanka accounts for 67.1% of the district's total population. Geography 
The main rivers of the district are the Kolyma River and its tributaries. Most of the territory of the district is part of the Kolyma lowland. The Yukaghir Plateau, reaching a maximum height of  at Mount Chubukulakh, rises in the east and some eastern foothills of the Chersky Range to the west, such as the Arga-Tas in the southwest and the Osalin Range in the northwest. Climate
Average January temperature is  and average July temperature ranges from  to . Annual precipitation ranges from . History
The district was established on April 30, 1954. Demographics
As of the 2021 Census, the ethnic composition was as follows:
Russians: 45.6%
Yakuts: 29.1%
Evens: 8.7%
Yukaghirs: 8.3%
Ukrainians: 2.1%
Tajiks: 1.4%
other ethnicities: 4.8%

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*Administrative centers are shown in bold

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Districts of the Sakha Republic