Severo-Evensky District
The Severo- Ewenski rayon (Russian Северо - Эвенский район ) is a Rajon Oblast Magadan in north-east Russia. Administrative center is the urban-type settlement Ewensk.
- 2.1 Population development
Geography
Location
The Severo- Ewenski rayon is located in the northeast of the oblast. It is bounded on the south by the Sea of Okhotsk, on the east by the Kamchatka region, rajon on the northeast by the Autonomous District of the Chukchi and to the northwest by the Srednekanski and to the west by the Omsuktschanski rajon Oblast Magadan.
Relief and rivers
From southwest to northeast Rajon intersected by the main ridge of the Kolymagebirges reaching heights of nearly 2000 m in the western part. The area north- west of it is drained by the largest Kolyma - Omolon inflow and its tributaries. In the southeast part of the Rajons outweighs flatter terrain to low mountain range. Here the Gischiga the Penschinabusen flows Gischigabusen the Sea of Okhotsk to the very east of the parenchymal (underflow and mouth already on the territory of the Kamchatka Region ). A part of the northwest coast of Penschinabusens as well as the mountainous (up to almost 1500 m ) Taigonos peninsula that separates Penschinabusen and Gischigabucht, are in the extreme southeast of the Rajons.
Population
The Rajon has 2819 inhabitants (2008 ), its area is 102,000 km ². With a population density of only 0,028 inhabitants per km ² (or a population to 36 km ²) it is the most sparsely populated of the Oblast and one of the most thinly throughout Russia. More than half of the population provide members of the indigenous peoples (next Evens also Koryak, Itelmens, Chukchi and Kamchadals ). The rest are mainly Russians.
Administrative divisions
The Rajon covers not only the administrative center of the Municipal settlement Ewensk, five rural settlements with a total of six villages:
- Garmandinskoje ( Гармандинское ) with the village Garmanda
- Gischiginskoje ( Гижигинское ) with Gischiga
- Taigonosskoje ( Тайгоносское ) with Topolowka
- Tschaibuchinskoje ( Чайбухинское ) with headquarters in Tschaibucha and the village of Malaya Tschaibucha
- Werchneparenskoje ( Верхнепареньское ) with Werchni Paren
History
The previously inhabited by Evens and members of other ethnic groups smaller area was first reached by Russian Cossacks on their advance towards the east in the 17th century. Colonization, however, was intensified in the second half of the 18th century when near the Gischigamündung 1752 Ostrog was established and in 1783 a town. The first also Ischiginsk or Gizhiga called Stadt (now village Gischiga ) Although never had more than a few hundred inhabitants, but has been the administrative center of a vast, same okrugs of Primorye oblast.
Traveled to the early 1850s and described the Baltic German explorer and naturalist Karl von Ditmar on his Kamchatka expeditions to the field ( " according to the desolate Ischiginsk, [ ... ] further into the wild mountains and lonely tundra of Taigonos peninsula ").
In the Soviet period the Okrug Gischiga ( Gischiginski ) on January 4, 1926 in the Gischiginski ( Penschinski ) was rajon the Far Eastern region converted. From its western part was on 9 July 1931, the Severo- Ewenski rayon and has been in existence since 1930 Ochotskisch Ewenischen - affiliated National circuit. The name stands for " North Ewenischer Rajon " because it is the northernmost major settlement area of the Evens. Administrative center was the village Well Chan.
After the dissolution of the National circuit on 22 July 1934, the Rajon belonged to the Lower Amur Oblast ( Nischneamurskaja ), still as part of the Far Eastern region, and after the split on 20 October 1938 as part of the Khabarovsk region. When the Magadan Oblast was spun off from Khabarovsk on 3 December 1953 of the Severo- Ewenski rajon came to the former.
As early as 1951 was the administrative headquarters to Ewensk, the former village of Bolshaya Garmanda been postponed after Naja Chan had been completely destroyed by a flood. 1954, the western part of the territory was split off as Omsuktschanski rayon.
Population Development
Note: 1959-2002 Census data
Economy and infrastructure
The main industry is gold mining. In addition, by the indigenous population mainly reindeer herding, hunting and fishing are operated.
Fixed roads do not exist. The administrative center Ewensk has a small airport ( Severo- Ewensk, ICAO code UHMW).