Neschkan

Village Neschkan Нешкан Federal district far East region Chukchi Autonomous Okrug Rajon Chukotsky population 704 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 5  m Time zone UTC + 12 Telephone code (+7) 42736 Post Code 689330 License Plate 87 OKATO 77 233 000 004 Geographical location Coordinates 67 ° 2 '  N , 172 ° 57'  W Coordinates: 67 ° 2 '15 "  N , 172 ° 57' 30"  W.

Situation in Russia

Location in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug

Neschkan ( Russian Нешка́н ) is a village (selo) in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug ( Russia ) with 704 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is about 500 km as the crow flies northeast of the district administrative center of Anadyr on the Chukchi Peninsula on the coast of the Chukchi Sea , a marginal sea of ​​the Arctic Ocean , on a spit that separates the Neskenpilgyn lagoon from the open sea.

Neschkan belongs to the Chukotsky Rajon and is located about 180 km northwest of its administrative center Lavrentija . It is the only village in the rural municipality of the same name (selskoje posselenije). Almost 95% of the inhabitants of the place are members of the indigenous peoples of the Russian north , mainly Chukchi and some Yupik .

history

The village was founded in the 1950s as part of the efforts of the Soviet period to concentrate the indigenous population of the area in a few larger settlements. The place name, which comes from the Eskimo languages (Yupik), refers to a nearby, 82  m high mountain at the western end of the spit and means seal head.

traffic

Neschkan is not connected to the road network. It can be reached by sea during the ice-free period, otherwise only by helicopter from the Lavrentija Rajon center.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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