Bilibino

Bilibino (Russian Билибино ) is a small town in the Autonomous District of the Chukchi in northeastern Siberia. It has 5506 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010, with the hamlets krutoi and Keperweem ) and lies on the River Keperweem, 653 km northwest of the Oblasthauptstadt Anadyr.

Bilibino is the site of a nuclear power plant, which is the only ever in an area with permafrost. The power plant was put into operation in 1974 and has four reactors with a capacity of 12 MW. At the site there is a monitoring station of SDCM system.

The landscape in which Bilibino is, is the transition zone between the coniferous forest and tundra in the mountains Tschuwanischen. The region and the valleys of the Little Anjui and Keperweem were moved in the 19th century by Russians and Yukagirs after there since about the year 1000, lived only Chukchi. In the 20th century the area was developed industrially, several mining settlements, including Bilibino were founded. The Rajon Bilibino has practically no roads, only the main town itself and the neighboring towns krutoi and Keperweem where there is an airfield, are connected by all-weather roads. There is a winter slopes of Nischnekolymsk in Yakutia on Bilibino after Pevek.

The place is named after the Russian geologists Yuri Bilibin. It was founded in 1955 after gold was found in the region. 1958 Bilibino got the status of an urban settlement, the city rights it received, however, only in 1993.

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Sons and daughters of the town

• Igor Shuvalov (* 1967), politician