Chulman is an urban locality (a settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

) in Neryungrinsky District

Neryungrinsky District

Neryungrinsky District is an administrative and municipal district in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Population:...

 of the Sakha Republic, Russia

Russia

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, located on the Chulman River, about 30 kilometres (18.6 mi) north of Neryungri

Neryungri

Neryungri is the second largest town in the Sakha Republic, Russia. Population: Municipally, the town is incorporated as Neryungrinsky Municipal District ....

. Population:

It is served by Chulman Airport and is a station on the Amur Yakutsk Mainline

Amur Yakutsk Mainline

The Amur-Yakutsk Mainline is a partially complete railway in eastern Russia, linking the Trans-Siberian Railway and Baikal-Amur Mainline with the Sakha Republic....

.

Employment in Chulman is mainly reliant on the mining of coal, granite and gemstones, as well as a power station.

Chulman was founded with nineteen inhabitants in 1926. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, it was the location of a gulag

Gulag

The Gulag was the government agency that administered the main Soviet forced labor camp systems. While the camps housed a wide range of convicts, from petty criminals to political prisoners, large numbers were convicted by simplified procedures, such as NKVD troikas and other instruments of...

work camp. There is a deep gorge to the east with white cliffs.