Druzhina is a village

Types of settlements in Russia

The classification system of the types of inhabited localities in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared to the classification systems in other countries.-Modern classification in Russia:...

 in Abyysky Ulus

Abyysky Ulus

Abyysky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is located in the northern part of the republic centered around the Indigirka River and borders with Allaikhovsky District in the north, Srednekolymsky District in the east,...

 of the Sakha Republic, Russia

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, a port by the left bank of the Indigirka River

Indigirka River

The Indigirka River is a river in the Sakha Republic in Russia between the Yana River and the Kolyma River. It is in length. The area of its basin is 360,000 km²...

. It is located about 2,800 km northeast of Yakutsk

Yakutsk

With a subarctic climate , Yakutsk is the coldest city, though not the coldest inhabited place, on Earth. Average monthly temperatures range from in July to in January. The coldest temperatures ever recorded on the planet outside Antarctica occurred in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast...

 and 120 km southwest from the Belaya Gora, ulus' administrative center. Druzhina served as the administrative center of then Abyysky District (a predecessor of the modern Abyysky Ulus) until 1974.

The village is reachable either by Indigirka or by winter road (zimnik) from Verkhoyansk

Verkhoyansk

Verkhoyansk is a town in Verkhoyansky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia, situated on the Yana River, near the Arctic Circle, from Yakutsk. Population: There is a river port, an airport, a fur-collecting depot, and the center of a reindeer-raising area....

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Main occupations of the dwindling population are fishing and hunting. The village has a meteorological station.