Aliskerowo
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Aliskerovo
Алискерово
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Aliskerowo ( Russian Алискерово ) is a former urban-type settlement in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug in the far northeast of Russia . Since the decision to give up the place in 1998, Aliskerowo has in fact become a “ ghost town ”.
geography
The settlement is located a little north of the Arctic Circle on the right bank of the Egilknywejem river (Russian and Chukchi Эгилькнывеем ), about seven kilometers above its mouth in the Little Anjui . It is surrounded by the 1000 m high mountains of the Anjuigebirge in the vicinity of the village .
Aliskerowo is located on the territory of the Bilibinski Rajon and is about 55 kilometers as the crow flies in a south-westerly direction from its administrative center Bilibino . The place is a good 550 kilometers as the crow flies northwest of the capital of the Anadyr Autonomous Okrug .
history
The history of the place began with the discovery of a gold deposit in the Egilknywejem valley in 1961. It was named after the geologist Asis Aliskerow (1914-1956), a Lesgier who has been active in the northeast of the Soviet Union since 1940 and from 1955 head of the geological administration of the oblast Magadan was. As early as 1962 the status of an urban-type settlement was given. In the following year, a large semi-stationary gold excavator (Russian: draga ) went into operation on the gold soap deposit , the first of its kind in the Soviet Union beyond the Arctic Circle.
As a result of the gradual depletion of gold and the elimination of state subsidies after the collapse of the Soviet Union , gold mining in Aliskerowo, as in the entire region, experienced a decline in the 1990s. In 1998 it was decided to give up the remote settlement, which can only be reached by air and via a runway from the district center of Bilibino, accessible by all-terrain vehicles. Almost all of the remaining residents then left the place. However, Aliskerowo retained the status of an urban-type settlement until 2007, when three residents were officially registered there. During the implementation of the administrative reform in Russia from 2006 in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug, Aliskerowo was no longer considered as an independent town, but is still listed as “in the liquidation stage”.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1970 | 1245 |
| 1979 | 1170 |
| 1989 | 1306 |
| 2002 | 7th |
| 2007 | 3 |
Note : 1970-2002 census data
meteorite
On July 10, 1977, a 58.4 kilogram iron meteorite from the class of octahedrites was found during gold mining in the valley of the Svetscha brook a few kilometers north of Aliskerowo , which was named Aliskerovo after the place (in the English transcription customary for meteorites ) .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Asis Aliskerow - short biography at kolyma.ru (Russian)
- ↑ Act No. 33-OS of the Duma of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug ( Memento of July 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) On the administrative-territorial structure of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug of June 30, 1998 (with amendments until June 24, 2009; Russian )
- ↑ meteorite Aliskerovo in the Meteoritical Society Database (English)
Web links
- Aliskerowo - entry at dead-cities.ru (Russian)