Esso (Russia)

Village Esso Эссо Federal district far East region Kamchatka Rajon Bystrinski population 2012 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 12 Telephone code (+7) 41542 Post Code 684350 License Plate 41 OKATO 30 204 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 55 '  N , 158 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 55 '0 "  N , 158 ° 42' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Kamchatka Region

Esso ( Russian Э́ссо ) is a village in the center of the Kamchatka Peninsula in the Far East of Russia with 2012 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010), including several hundred Evens and other members of indigenous peoples .

Location and importance

The place is located almost 650 kilometers northwest of the regional capital Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky .

Esso is the end point of the road that leads from the regional capital through the center of the peninsula and the starting point for tourist excursions through the surrounding mountains. The place is located at the mouth of the Uksichan River and the Bystraja River . Esso is the center of the Bystrinski rajon in the Kamchatka region and the administrative center of the Bystrinsky Nature Park.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	286
1959	630
1970	1078
1979	1715
1989	2269
2002	2081
2010	2012

Note: census data

Infrastructure

In Esso itself there are, among other things, several hotels, around 15–20 shops, a café, school and kindergarten, a music school, a hospital, two pharmacies, a post office, several banks (so far without ATMs), an airport, a library and a Culture house.

traffic

• Bus: Esso is connected to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky by a public bus that runs once a day (journey time about 9 hours).
• Airfield: Esso has an airfield

Attractions

The sights of the village include:

• Ethnographic Museum:
• Visitor center: The visitor center in the administration building of the nature park shows exhibitions on ecology and tourism and is the point of contact for information when staying in Esso
• Thermal outdoor pool : Esso has a public thermal outdoor pool
• the small bear museum in the library:
• the Stoibishche "Tschau-Tschiw": the 'Stoibischtsche Tschau-Tschiw' is a kind of Koryak open-air museum
• War memorial:

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  overall view

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  Wooden houses in the place

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi VPN-2010. Administrativno-territorialʹnoe delenie kraja. (Results of the 2010 census. Administrative-territorial division of the region.) Table 2 (Download from the website of the Territorial Organ of the Kamchatka Region of the Federal Service of State Statistics of the Russian Federation)

Web links

Commons : Esso  - collection of images, videos and audio files