Karamken

Desolation Karamken Карамкен Federal district far East Oblast Magadan Rajon Hasynsky Desert since 2012 population 336 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 450  m Time zone UTC + 11 License Plate 49 OKATO 44 219 556 Geographical location Coordinates 60 ° 12 '  N , 151 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 60 ° 12 '30 "  N , 151 ° 5' 45"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Magadan Oblast

Karamken ( Russian Карамке́н ) was a settlement in Magadan Oblast ( Russia ) that has been deserted since 2014.

geography

The urban area is located approximately 75 km in a straight line north-northeast of Oblastverwaltungszentrums Magadan in an area to just 1,400  m uplifting Kolyma on the left bank of the Chassyn .

The area of the former Karamken belongs since 2015 Rajon Chassynski and is located 14 km northeast of the administrative center of Palatka . The settlement is the seat and only locality of the municipality (gorodskoje posselenije) Possjolok Karamken.

history

The place was created in the 1930s in connection with the construction of the Kolymatrasse .

After a gold and silver ore deposit was discovered nearby in 1964, the construction of an ore enrichment factory began in 1971 above the town. In 1974 Karamken received urban-type settlement status . After the ore deposits were completely exhausted, the company that was building the site was closed in 1995, after which the majority of the residents left the settlement.

Karamken has been a rural settlement again since 2012 after the number of inhabitants calculated from registration data had fallen to 60 at the beginning of 2012. The remaining residents were resettled by 2014, so the liquidation planned since 2006 was carried out.

Population development

year	Residents
1979	3924
1989	3589
2002	745
2010	336
since 2014	0

Note: census data

traffic

Karamken was on the R504 Kolyma trunk road , which connects Magadan with Nizhny Bestjach near Yakutsk (the previous number M56 remained in use as an alternative until 2017).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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)
2. ↑ Order No. 315 of the Magadan Oblast Administration of May 3, 2012 (Russian)
3. ↑ Закон Магаданской области от 31 июля 2014 года № 1777-ОЗ "Об упразднении сельского поселения" поса "Кена" Кена "

New wealth in Siberia - From Moscow to Magadan, a documentary broadcast by Jelle Brandt Corstius from 2009 documents the decline.