Khoro, Verkhnevilyuysky District, Sakha Republic
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Coordinates: 47°45′N 142°32′E / 47.75°N 142.533°E
Khoro (Russian: Хоро) is a village (selo) in Verkhnevilyuysky Ulus of the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the left coast of the Vilyuy River, 75 kilometers (47 mi) west of the town of Vilyuysk. Population: 1,202 (2000 est.).[citation needed]
Until 2003, the official name of the village was Bulgunnyakhtakh (Булгунняхтах); after the post office.
[edit] History
According to the legend, the village was settled by Khoro tribes from the Lena basin, who fled to this area to escape their Yakut oppressors.
The village is first mentioned in written sources in connection with the annexaction of Yakutia by the Russian Empire.
In 1634, Russian Cossacks, headed by Voin Shakhov, established a winter settlement at the confluence of the Vilyuy and Tyuken Rivers. This settlement served as the administrative center of the area for several decades, after which it was moved to the Yolyonnyokh area 45 kilometers (28 mi) down by the Vilyuy River, where the ostrog (fortified settlement) of Olensk (now Vilyuysk) was founded in 1773.
The village in its modern form was established in 1952 by merging four neighboring kolkhozes.
