Debin

Debin (Russian Дебин ) is an urban-type settlement in Magadan Oblast (Russia) with 721 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The village is located some 300 km as the crow north of Magadan Oblastverwaltungszentrums on the left bank of the Kolyma River, about 40 km downstream of the Kolyma River Reservoir.

Debin belongs to Rajon Jagodninski and is located approximately 60 km east-southeast of the administrative center Yagodnoye. The settlement is the seat and only town in the municipality ( gorodskoje posselenije ) Possjolok Debin.

Road bridge over the Kolyma at Debin

History

The settlement was founded in 1935, when there is a ferry service on the Kolyma was established, and was first called therefore Pereprawa (Russian about crossing point ). After the construction of a bridge, it was renamed in 1937 in Debin, after a few kilometers upstream ( south ) from the left opens into the Kolyma River Debin. In Debin is one of the larger Gulag camp was in Kolymagebiet, and from the 1940s, their central hospital. There, among other things, the writer Varlam Schalamow worked during his prison camp.

Since 1953 Debin has the status of an urban-type settlement.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Traffic

In Debin the highway R504 Kolyma, Magadan crossed with the Nizhny Bestjach at Yakutsk connects (previously M56, number until 2017 alternatively in use), the Kolyma. Here a road branches off into the well 30 km southwest, located immediately below the Kolyma Dam settlement Sinegorje. Another road leads from Debin first the left Kolymaufer down and on to the village and to the village Elgen Taskan, with turnoff to Werchni At- Urjach.