Bilibinski rajon
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Bilibinski rajon
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The Bilibinski rajon ( Russian Билибинский район ) is a Rajon of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug in the far northeast of Russia . The administrative center is the city of Bilibino .
geography
The Rajon is about half the size of the Federal Republic of Germany, but is inhabited by less than 8,000 people. It lies in the west of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug and is geographically located in the forest tundra of the Kolyma lowlands . It borders in the west on the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), in the southwest on the Magadan Oblast , in the south on the Kamchatka region and in the east on the Chaunski and Anadyrski Rajons of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug. In the north of the Bilibinsky Rajon is the coast of the East Siberian Sea .
The administrative seat of the Rajons is the city of Bilibino . It is located 625 kilometers northwest of Anadyr , the capital of the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug , 255 kilometers southwest of the Arctic Ocean port city of Pewek , 1100 kilometers north-northeast of the nearest major city Magadan and - measured across the North Pole - 6500 kilometers from Moscow .
Natural resources
The Rajon is rich in mineral resources such as gold , silver and platinum metals as well as proven deposits of tin , zinc , copper , antimony , tungsten , mercury , lead and coal . More than 30 usable minerals including pyrite , chalcopyrite , bornite and molybdenite have been discovered to date.
Administrative division
The Rajon is divided into an urban municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) and four rural municipalities (selskoje posselenije). The municipality of Bilibino includes not only the city in which with 5506 (all data as of October 14, 2010) a good two thirds of the residents of the Rajon live, also the village of Keperwejem (336 inhabitants) 25 km south-southwest .
The rural communities only include the eponymous village:
- Anjuisk (480 inhabitants)
- Ilirnei (287 inhabitants)
- Omolon (873 inhabitants)
- Ostrownoje (384 inhabitants)
Four former mining settlements with the status of urban-type settlements were officially abandoned in 1998 ( Dalni and Wessenni ) and 2008 ( Aliskerowo and Wstretschny ) and no longer have permanent residents. In some documents (for example the classifier of municipal structures / municipal register OKTMO, as of 2014), they are still formally listed as localities located on non-parish territory (meschselennaja territorija) .
Other former towns were abandoned from the 1960s, but mostly in the early to mid-1990s: Angarka, Karalwaam, Krestowoje, Mandrikowo, Pjatistennoje, Pogyndeno, Staduchino and Start.
history
The Rajon emerged with the establishment of the National Circle (from 1977 Autonomous Circle) of the Chukchi on December 10, 1931 as Rajon Vostochnoi Tundry ("Rajon of the Eastern Tundra "). Its administrative seat was initially in Ostrownoje , later it was relocated to Anjuisk (both west of Bilibino on the Little Anjui ). In 1961 the Bilibino Rajonzentrum, founded in the 1950s, and the Rajon were renamed accordingly.
economy
Economic activities in the Bilibinski Rajon are mining, power generation ( Bilibino nuclear power plant ), reindeer herding (2009: almost 40,000 people) and fishing . A company also produces vegetables in greenhouses.
traffic
The most important means of transport beyond the borders of the Rajon are the plane (all year round) and shipping (around July to November). Barges operate on the Kolyma tributaries, Omolon and Kleiner Anjui. Motor vehicle traffic within the Rajon as well as freight traffic with the seaports of Pewek, Seljony Mys (on the lower reaches of the Kolyma near Tscherski in the neighboring Nizhnekolymsky ulus of the Sakha Republic) and Egwekinot as well as with Magadan and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) will be temporary from November to April Winded up winter roads.
Web links
- Official website of the district administration (Russian)
- Information about the Rajon on the official website of the Autonomous Okrug
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
