History
It was first founded as the gold mining settlement of Novotroytskoye, after alluvial gold was discovered in the area in the 19th century.
Town status was granted to it in 1938, with the town receiving its present name at the same time.
The Baleylag prison camp of the gulag was constructed here, to house prisoners used as slave labour for mining the Tasseyevskoye gold deposits discovered in the region in 1947.
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