Lavrentiya

Lawrentija (Russian Лаврентия ) is a village with 1459 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ) in the northeastern part of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug in the far east of Russia.

Geography

The village is located on the Chukchi Peninsula on the southwest side of the bay of the Bering Strait, about 600 kilometers northeast of the county government center Anadyr.

Lawrentija is the administrative center of eastern Russia Rajons Tschukotski.

The majority of the inhabitants of Lawrentija and Rajon are Chukchi, besides members of the Eskimo tribe Yupik, who speak the language naukanische in this area.

History

The village was founded as a center of Rajons founded in 1927 and during the collectivization of reindeer herding as a " culture -based " (Russian Kultbasa ) 1933 site of an older settlement Chukch and named after the bay. Their name (Russian Saliw Swjatowo Lawrentija, English Bay of Saint Lawrence ) refers, as well as the to the United States belong, far from lying in the Bering Strait St. Lawrence Island, the Christian martyr Lawrence of Rome (Russian Lawrenti ). However, the bay got its name - in contrast to the island in 1728 named by Vitus Bering - exactly 50 years later by James Cook, who reached on his third Pacific voyage on 10 August 1778 to the 1500 anniversary of the death of St. Lawrence. .

The village developed particularly in connection with an applied here Airport, which served, among others, during the Second World War the transfer of American Lend-Lease aircraft to the Soviet Union, from 1953 also for civilian purposes.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture and sights

The village has a small museum.

Economy and infrastructure

Practically the only sector of the Rajons is operated by members of the indigenous peoples reindeer husbandry; one of the centers is located next to the small supply and repair shops in Lawrentija.

Lawrentija has a small sea port and close to an airport ( Saliw Lawrentija, Lawrentija Bay, ICAO code UHML ), of which there is a flight to Anadyr. A because of several fords only with all-terrain vehicles motorable road leads to the village located 40 km west Lorino.