Egvekinot

Egwekinot (Russian Эгвекинот, Chukchi Эрвыкыннот / Erwykynnot ) is an urban-type settlement in the Autonomous District of the Chukchi in the extreme northeast of Russia. She has (October 14, 2010 Balance ) 2790 inhabitants.

Geography

The settlement is situated on the south coast of the Chukchi Peninsula, some 30 km south of the Arctic Circle. It is about 250 km in a straight line in a northeasterly from administrative center of the Autonomous Okrug Anadyr direction. The central part of Egwekinot extends on the west side of the 13 km long and 3 km wide bay of the same at the extreme northern end of the cross - bay ( Saliw Kresta ), which in turn is part of the Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea. Immediately behind the village, the mountains rise steeply to more than 700 meters in height. Just 10 kilometers north lies the district Osjorny.

Egwekinot is the administrative center of the Rajons Iultin.

District Osjorny

Crossing the Arctic Circle by the road to Iultin and Mys SmithA

History

In 1937, in the central part of the Chukchi Peninsula, about 200 kilometers north of the present settlement Egwekinot, discovered a significant deposit of tin, tungsten and molybdenum ores. With their development, however, was begun after the Second World War. For this purpose originated from 1946 Egwekinot where a port for the shipment of ore was built. During the construction of the settlement, a road to the ore body of the local mine and the associated settlement Iultin ( founded in 1953 ) Prisoners of a set up for this purpose camp were used, which of the Far Eastern Warehouse Management ( Dalstroy ) was assumed in the system of the Gulag. As a founding date of Egwekinot valid July 16, 1946, there arrived at which the first vessel with 1500 prisoners and other settlers. The camp existed until 1956.

In 1954, Egwekinot the status of an urban-type settlement. With the establishment of the Rajons Iultin it became its administrative center in the 1950s.

On 30 May 2008, the Rajon Iultin and the north then Rajon Schmidtowski to a new Rajon Vostochny ( " East Rajon " ) were combined. Egwekinot remained its center. Since 18 November 2008, the new Rajon again bears the name Iultin.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

In the Soviet period Egwekinot was Umschlagort for the ores of the mine and also a basis for further, especially geological exploration of the surrounding part of the Chukchi Peninsula. With the closure of the mine because of unprofitability in 1993 this function was lost, what a dwindling of the population had more than half the consequence. Today there are only a few companies for local supply. When the district Osjorny is the 1950-1959 and 2010 built reconstructed thermal power plant Egwekinotskaja GRES with a capacity of 34 MW.

The settlement has a small sea port and four kilometers north airport (official name Saliw Kresta, ICAO code UHME ), which is served by Chukotavia of Anadyr from.

Starting from Egwekinot leads a mostly dirt road about 200 km in the central part of the Chukchi Peninsula, a nearly 500 -meter-high pass into the valley of Amguema, one of the largest rivers of the peninsula, crosses this end at the former mining and Rajonverwaltungszentrum Iultin that in the 1990s of a settlement with more than 5,000 inhabitants (1989 ) became an uninhabited ghost town. From Iultin is a passable -terrain vehicles runway about other more than 100 kilometers to the settlement Mys SmithA on the north coast of the peninsula.