Seymchan (urban-type settlement)
Seimtschan (Russian Сеймчан ) is an urban-type settlement in Magadan Oblast (Russia) with 2818 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).
Geography
The settlement is located on the northeast edge of the Seimtschan - Bujunda sink ( Seimtschano - Bujundinskaja wpadina ), a broad lowland that extends along the middle reaches of the Kolyma River and its right tributary Bujunda between the Tscherskigebirge, the south-eastern foothills of the Momagebirges and northern foothills of the Kolymagebirges. Seimtschan located approximately 380 km north-northeast of the crow is Oblastverwaltungszentrums Magadan on the right bank of the same river Seimtschan near its mouth from the left in the Kolyma.
Seimtschan is the administrative center of the Rajons Srednekanski.
1967 was found in the northwest of the area in a tributary of the left Kolyma Creek Jassatschnaja a meteorite that was the location and flow Seimtschan the name Seymchan ( according to the English transliteration ).
History
The village was founded in the late 17th century by Yakuts. Its present name is derived from the Yakut word chejymtschen for polynya. Later, a church was built, and led in the 19th century the trade route from the coast of the Okhotsk Sea to Kolyma, the Ola - Kolyma tract through the town.
The economic development of the area was taken with the opening of the first gold mines in 1931, the discovery and subsequent exploitation of lignite deposits Elgen 1932, 1937 and cobalt ores of tin deposits at the beginning of the 1940s. The establishment of today's settlement began Seimtschan 1940. During World War II there was an airfield that served the conversion of supplied by the United States to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease program aircraft. On the way from Alaska Seimtschan station between the adjacent milestones Syrjanka was further down on the Kolyma and Oymyakon in Ostjakutien.
From 1949 to 1955 Seimtschan was in Nizhny ( last district Kolymskoje, a few kilometers south of the center directly on the Kolyma, abandoned 2005) the management of the southwestern Criminal bearing ( JusLag ) the Dalstroy management system of the Gulag with up to 5700 prisoners who were used in the tin and gold mining and the construction and forestry.
1953, the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and sights
Seimtschan has a local history museum.
Economy and infrastructure
The settlement is logistical center for economic activities in the Raion, mainly the remaining after the economic crisis of the 1990s, mining (gold and silver). Nearby agriculture for the local supply is operated.
At the southeastern outskirts of the village has an airport ( ICAO code UHMS ). About a 200 -kilometer route that crosses above the settlement Ust- Srednekan the Kolyma River on a new bridge that is connected to the highway M56 (formerly Kolyma ), which leads by road some 500 kilometers from Magadan in the Seimtschan.