Shoyna

Schoina (Russian Шойна ) is a village in the Nenets Autonomous District of the North -West of Russia with about 300 inhabitants ( 2008).

Geography

The village is situated on the White Sea on the west coast of the Kanin Peninsula, some 400 km as the crow north of Arkhangelsk and 370 km to the west of the administrative center of the Autonomous Okrug Naryan -Mar. Schoina lies on the southern edge of the flat, several kilometers wide Ästuarmündung of the eponymous river Schoina.

In Schoina has one of the 17 village Soviets of the Autonomous Okrug is situated, whose members also included the small village Kiya ( 63 inhabitants in 2008 ) is located 25 km south of the mouth of the rivers Bolshaya Kiya (Grand Kiya ) and Malaya Kiya ( Small Kiya ) in the White Sea. In the census of October 14, 2010 had the two places of the village Soviets Schoina together 363 inhabitants.

Schoina is only accessible by boat or plane ( Antonov An-2 from Naryan -Mar or Arkhangelsk to Schoina Airport, ICAO code Ulbo ).

Climate and vegetation

Schoina near the Arctic Circle. The summers are short and cool, winters are long and cold. Because of the permafrost and the climate there is almost no vegetation, so that the gradual silting up of the village by dunes in the short summer period can hardly be stopped.

History

Schoina was founded in the 1930s as Fischerkolchose. At times, lived up to 1500 inhabitants in Schoina. However, due to overfishing of fish stocks fell sharply, so that the fishing was in the early 1990s completely set. Since then, there only 300 inhabitants, who are dependent to a considerable extent on government support life.