Iultin

Iultin (Russian Иультин ) is a former urban-type settlement in the Autonomous District of the Chukchi in the extreme northeast of Russia. By placing the town in the second half of the 1990s Iultin has become a "ghost town".

Geography

The settlement is situated on the northern central part of the Chukchi Peninsula, north of the Arctic Circle in the Valley of Iultinka flowing in the river system of the Chukchi Sea Koiwelwegyrgyn (Russian and Chukchi Койвэльвэгыргын ). It is surrounded by the rising up to almost 1200 m altitude mountains of Ekwywatap Mountains.

Iultin belongs to the named after the settlement Rajon Iultin, but was never its administrative center.

History

Within the later settlement of a significant deposit of tin, tungsten and molybdenum ore was discovered in 1937. With their development, however, was begun after the Second World War. From 1946, a 200- kilometer road was the set up for that purpose Egwekinot settlement on the coast of the Bering Sea, where a harbor was built. 1953, the deposit was reached and the place founded Iultin. During the construction of the settlement, the road and the mine prisoners a bearing were used, which of the Far Eastern Warehouse Management ( Dalstroy ) has been covered in the Gulag system. The camp existed until 1956.

A little later the settlement was granted the status of an urban-type settlement; the reduction of the ore began in 1959. place when a work was created for the enrichment of the ores ( Iultinski GOK). There also the ores of some 20 -kilometers were located north, discovered in the 1950s, explored in the 1960s and processed in 1976 mined deposit Swetloje. The mostly unpaved road to Iultin, initially over a nearly 500 -meter-high pass into the valley of Amguema, one of the largest rivers of the peninsula, and conferred crosses was later Iultin in the form of a drive- by off-road vehicles slope over more than 100 further kilometers to the settlement Mys SmithA on the north coast of the Chukotka Peninsula extended.

In the difficult economic conditions in the period of the disintegration of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, ore mining and processing were unprofitable in the distant village; the mine and enrichment plant had to close. On 4 December 1995, the Government of the Russian Federation approved the abandonment of the settlement Iultin. The last inhabitants left the place in 2000.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Sons and daughters of the town

• Kostyantyn Schewaho ( b. 1974 ), Ukrainian politicians and entrepreneurs