What is "machakh"

Machakh is a rural locality (a selo), and one of two settlements in Babushkinsky Rural Okrug of Verkhoyansky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in addition to Boronuk, the administrative center of the Rural Okrug. It is located from Batagay, the administrative center of the district and from Boronuk. Its population as of the 2010 Census was 66; down from 108 recorded in the 2002 Census.