It is located on the Aldan River (a right-hand tributary of the Lena) 390 kilometers southwest of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic, and 70 kilometers northeast of Aldan, the administrative center of the district.
As of the 2010 Census, its population was 8,057.
It was founded in 1923 with the construction of a river port on the Aldan for supplies to the Nezametny gold mine in the present-day town of Aldan.
It was formerly the head of navigation of the Aldan River. Tommot was granted town status in 1925.
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2. Municipal formation in Russia:
Tommot Urban Settlement (Russian: городско́е поселе́ние «го́род Томмо́т») is a municipal formation (an urban settlement) in Aldansky Municipal District of the Sakha Republic, Russia.
It is one of the four urban settlements in the district.
Its territory comprises the territories of two administrative divisions of Aldansky District—the Town of Tommot (which, in addition to Tommot, contains three rural localities) and the Settlement of Bezymyanny.
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