Eldikan serves as an important distribution center for the district's
gold mining industry, and as an energy center. Agricultural products produced here include vegetables, pigs, horses, cows, potatoes, cabbage, and fish. Eldikan is connected via a more than long road with
Yugoryonok on the
Yudoma River, with side roads connecting with the various mining settlements in the area. Eldikan itself, however, remains only connected to the outside world by ship on the
Aldan River during the ice-free period, or via an ice road along the frozen river in winter. There is also a winter road along the Aldan to Ust-Maya and a further onwards to
Amga, from which an all-weather road connects to
Nizhny Bestyakh near the republic's
capital of
Yakutsk. A new year-round road is planned which will connect Eldikan with the settlement of
Khandyga on the
Kolyma Highway. The construction of the first section, to
Dzhebariki-Khaya, began in 2009. A small airport in Eldikan is no longer in regular use. ==See also==