Khatanga, Russia
Chatanga (Russian Хатанга ) is a village in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Territory ( until its dissolution in late 2006 in the Taimyr Autonomous District, today Rajon Taimyr Dolgan and Nenets of ) in northern Siberia. It has 2645 inhabitants posselenije (as of October 14, 2010 ) and is the seat of the rural community Chatangskoje selskoje.
Geographical location
Chatanga is the Taimyrsenke, the central part of the North Siberian Lowland about 15 km below the confluence of the Cheta and Kotui to Chatanga and about 208 km upstream of the estuary Chatangagolf, which carries over to the belonging to the Arctic Ocean Laptev Sea. In lakes and marsh rich region of the tundra it is located directly on the Chatanga at 1 m height.
Miscellaneous
Chatanga has the airport Chatanga ( ICAO code: UOHH ), a hotel, a Natural History Museum and several weather stations. It is the starting point for many polar expeditions.
History
The settlement was founded as Chatanskoje ( Хатанское ).
During the Second World War, exiled in Chatanga and environment forced laborers were employed especially with the catching and processing of fish. When the exiles were mainly to Volga German, Finns and Latvians.
On December 6, 1969, was 13 km from the airport Chatanga to a plane crash with eight deaths, which was caused by the severe icing of the wings.
The place was known was also supported by the so-called " Jarkov mammoth ", which recovered in 1999 from the permafrost of the Taimyr peninsula and then stored in the applied as an intermediate storage for fish and meat in the 1950s by Chatanga ice cave and examined. Earlier, several partially preserved mammoths and other rare fossils were discovered in the region Chatanga.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Climate
The climate is subpolar Chatanga - humid continental with embossing. The average annual temperature is -13.8 ° C. The warmest month is July with about 12 ° C. The thermometer rises this time of year often to over 25 ° C; the highest measured temperature was 36.7 ° C. The coldest month, January, has an average temperature of -35 ° C; the lowest measured temperature was -59 ° C. The annual rainfall is an average of 296 mm. The main rainfall falls in the months of June to October. The Chatanga region is often hit by hurricanes.