Khandyga (Russian: Хандыга; Sakha: Хаандыга) is an urban locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Tomponsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the northeast corner of the Aldan River, where the river turns from north to west, the M56 Kolyma Highway, 380 kilometers (240 mi) northeast of Yakutsk, the capital of the republic.