Amguema (place)
Village
Amguema
Амгуэма
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Amguema ( Russian Амгуэ́ма ) is a village (selo) in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug ( Russia ) with 531 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The place is about 300 km as the crow flies north-northeast of the district administrative center Anadyr on the right bank of the eponymous Amguema river .
Amguema belongs to the Iultinsky district and is located about 80 km north of its administrative center Egwekinot . It is the only village in the rural municipality of the same name (selskoje posselenije).
history
The village was founded in the early 1950s in connection with the construction of a road that was to connect the port of Egwekinot with the mining settlement of Iultin, where an important deposit of tin , tungsten and molybdenum ores was discovered in 1937 . Primarily members of the Chukchi indigenous population, who primarily keep reindeer herding , were settled in the village , who now make up a good 70% of the population.
Amguema is one of the places in the Autonomous Okrug whose building fabric was in fact completely renewed from the 1990s.
traffic
Amguema is located on the Egwekinot - Iultin road , which continues as a winter slope to Mys Schmidta / Ryrkaipij and crosses the Chukchi Peninsula from the coast of the Bering Sea in the south to the coast of the Chukchi Sea in the north.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Čislennostʹ naselenija gorodskich naselennych dotov, selʹskich naselennych dotov po Čukotskomu avtonomnomu okrugu. (Population of urban settlements, rural settlements in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug.) Download from the website of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug of the Federal Service of State Statistics of the Russian Federation