Ducat (Russia)

Urban-type settlement Ducat Ducat Federal district far East Oblast Magadan Rajon Omsukchansky Founded 1968 population 1351 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 760  m Time zone UTC + 11 Telephone code (+7) 41346 Post Code 686417 License Plate 49 OKATO 44 204 555 Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 35 '  N , 155 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 34 '30 "  N , 155 ° 22' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Magadan Oblast

Dukat ( Russian Дука́т ) is an urban-type settlement in the Magadan Oblast ( Russia ) with 1,351 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 420 km as the crow flies northeast of the Magadan Oblast Administrative Center in the middle of the northern foothills of the Kolyma Mountains , which rise up to about 1500  m , on the upper reaches of the Neponjatny river in the system of the right Kolyma tributary Sugoi .

Dukat belongs to the Omsuktschanski Rajon and is located a good 20 km west-northwest of the Omsuktschan administrative center . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Dukat.

history

The settlement was founded in 1968 in connection with the beginning development of a silver and gold ore deposit . Since February 19, 1976 Dukat - named after the gold coin Dukat - has had the status of an urban-type settlement. Originally, the settlement was about 2 km to the west (upstream), while the construction of prefabricated buildings in the current location did not begin until the early 1980s .

Population development

year	Residents
1979	3907
1989	6945
2002	1287
2010	1351

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

The building company is an opencast mine a good 5 km west of the town in which silver and gold ores are mined. The silver ore reserves are the most significant in all of Russia and among the largest in the world. After a temporary decline during the crisis of the 1990s, today about a third of Russia's silver production (400–500 tons per year) comes from Dukat, as well as up to almost a tonne of gold per year.

Dukat has a road connection to Omsuktschan. This is where the ore enrichment factory is located, which also processes ores from the smaller Lunnoje and Arylach deposits from the surrounding area. From Omsuktschan, which also has an airport, a 600 km long, mostly unpaved route leads to the R504 Kolyma ( M56 ) north of Magadan.

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)