Debin

Urban-type settlement Debin Дебин Federal district far East Oblast Magadan Rajon Jagodninsky Founded 1935 Earlier names Pereprawa (1935-1937) Urban-type settlement since 1953 population 721 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 340  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 41343 Post Code 686217 License Plate 49 OKATO 44 222 560 Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 21 ′  N , 150 ° 45 ′  E Coordinates: 62 ° 20 ′ 30 ″  N , 150 ° 45 ′ 30 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Magadan Oblast

Debin ( Russian Де́бин ) is an urban-type settlement in the Magadan Oblast ( Russia ) with 721 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is a good 300 km as the crow flies north of the Magadan Oblast Administrative Center on the left bank of the Kolyma , about 40 km below the Kolyma reservoir .

Debin belongs to Jagodninsky Rajon and is located about 60 km east-southeast of its administrative center Jagodnoye . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Debin.

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  Debin at Kolyma

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  Road bridge over the Kolyma near Debin

history

The settlement was established in 1935, when a ferry connection was established there over the Kolyma, and was therefore initially called Pereprawa (Russian roughly translation center ). After a bridge was built, it was renamed Debin in 1937 , after the river Debin, which flows a few kilometers upstream (south) from the left into the Kolyma . In Debin is one of the larger was the Gulag - camps in Kolymagebiet , and from the 1940s and whose central hospital. The writer Warlam Shalamov worked there while he was in camp.

Debin has had urban-type settlement status since 1953.

Population development

year	Residents
1959	4759
1970	2037
1979	2921
1989	2387
2002	921
2010	721

Note: census data

traffic

At Debin, the R504 Kolyma trunk road , which connects Magadan with Nizhny Bestjach near Jakutsk (previously M56 , number still in use until 2017), crosses Kolyma. There a road branches off to the settlement of Sinegorje , a good 30 km south-west, directly below the Kolyma dam . Another road leads from Debin down the left Kolymaufer and on to the settlement of Elgen and the village of Taskan , with a junction to Verkhni At-Urjach .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)