 The Yakutsk-Ayan Track supplied Ayan from Yakutsk from 1844 to 1867.It had three sections, first a 235-255 mile road southeast from Yakutsk, crossing the Amga River at Amginsk to Ust-Maya where the Maya River joins the Aldan, then about south up the Maya to near its southernmost point at Nelkan, and then a horse trail over the Dzhugdzhur Mountains to Ayan.Because the Maya flows north, it took thirteen to twenty-three days to go north and thirty to forty days to go south.