Aliskerovo

Aliskerowo (Russian Алискерово ) is a former urban-type settlement in the Autonomous District of the Chukchi in the extreme northeast of Russia. Since the decision to abandon the site 1998 Aliskerowo was in fact a " ghost town ".

Geography

The settlement is located just north of the Arctic Circle on the right bank of the river Egilknywejem (Russian and Chukchi Эгилькнывеем ), about seven kilometers above its confluence with the Little Anjui. It is surrounded by the in the vicinity of the place about 1000 m high mountains of Anjuigebirges.

Aliskerowo is located on the territory of Rajons Bilibino and is the administrative center of Bilibino is about 55 kilometers as the crow flies south-west. The place is over 550 line kilometers northwest of the capital of the Autonomous Okrug Anadyr.

History

Its history began with the discovery of a gold deposit in the valley of Egilknywejem 1961. It was named after the geologist Asis Aliskerow ( 1914-1956 ), a Lesgiers that since 1940 in the northeast of the former Soviet Union worked, and from 1955 head of the geological management of Magadan Oblast was. In 1962 the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded. The following year took on the gold soap deposit a large semi- stationary gold digger (Russian Draga ) to operate on, the first of its kind in the Soviet Union beyond the Arctic Circle.

Due to the gradual degradation of the gold deposit and the elimination of state subsidies after the collapse of the Soviet Union saw the gold mining in Aliskerowo as throughout the region in the 1990s, a decline. In 1998 it was decided to abandon the remote, accessible only by air and on a motorable for all-terrain vehicles piste from Rajonzentrum Bilibino settlement. Almost all the remaining inhabitants left the place then. The status of a urban-type settlement Aliskerowo kept still until 2007, when there still officially three residents were registered. In the implementation of the administrative reform in Russia from 2006 in the Autonomous District of the Chukchi Aliskerowo was no longer considered as a separate village, in an even more " located at the stage of liquidation " as.

Demographics

Note: 1970-2002 Census data

Meteorite

On 10 July 1977, a 58.4 kg heavy iron meteorite from the class of Oktaedrite was found in the gold mining in the valley of the brook Swetscha few kilometers north of Aliskerowo, the name Aliskerovo received after the place ( in the usual meteorite English transliteration ).