Lorino, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Lorino (Russian Лорино; Chukchi Льурэн; Yupik Нукак ) is a village with 1267 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 north side of Metschigmenski Bay, southwest of the Bering Strait, over 500 line kilometers east of the county government center Anadyr.

Lorino belongs to the easternmost Rajon Tschukotski Russia and is located about 35 kilometers west of the county seat, the village Lawrentija. The village is the only village of the same rural community ( selskoje posselenije ).

Besides Chukchi lives in Lorino a larger number of members of the Eskimo Yupik people Naukan respectively.

History

A tschuktschische settlement near the village today was first mentioned in the 18th century. The name means something found place in the Chukch language. In place of today's Lorino there was a Eskimo settlement with names Nukak.

After the founding of Rajons Tschukotski 1927, the village was built from 1933 as part of the collectivization of reindeer herding as a " culture -based " (Russian Kultbasa ) and administrative center of a collective farm. By 1943, the population rose from 52 to 171 in 1953 were the members of the Eskimo people Naukan from the same village near Cape Deschnjow, the easternmost point of Asia, resettled in Lorino; in consequence, the population increased to up to 1500.

Diesel power plant

Fox farm

Border guard

Dancers at a festival

Culture and sights

Lorino is one of the centers of the Eskimo culture in the northeast Chukotka. There are regular cultural festivals.

About 15 kilometers north-east, at the foot of the mountain train Genkanyj, the thermal springs Lorinskije Kljutschi emerge.

Economy and infrastructure

Lorino is a center of traditional hunting of marine mammals ( gray whales and walruses mainly and other seals) by the indigenous people. Since 1955, there is a polar fox farm.

The village can be reached by sea or by air ( helicopter ). About a motorable road with off-road vehicles Lorino has been connected to the hot springs with the Rajonzentrum Lawrentija.

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