Nikolskoye (Kamchatka)

Village Nikolskoye Нико́льское Federal district far East region Kamchatka Rajon Aleutski mayor Vladimir Kuzeev Founded 1826 population 676 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 12 Telephone code (+7) 41547 Post Code 684500 License Plate 41 OKATO 30 201 000 001 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 12 '  N , 166 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 11 '50 "  N , 166 ° 0' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Kamchatka Region

Nikolskoye ( Russian Никольское ) is the only village (Selo) and administrative center in Rajon Aleutski and the only settlement on the the Russian Commander Islands scoring Bering Island . It belongs to the Kamchatka region and has 676 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

Nikolskoje was founded in 1826 by Aleutians from the island of Atka , who were brought to the Bering Island by Russian fur traders . The main livelihood of the population was primarily the hunting of fur animals such as sea ​​otters or fur seals . Today the Bering Island is largely under nature protection, so that the public service and some fishing form the livelihood.

Since the village of Preobrazhenskoye on the neighboring island of Medny was abandoned in the 1960s, Nikolskoye has been the only settlement on the commanders' islands . But she too was not spared the emigration; in 2002 the population was 808 and in 1989 even 1365.

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  Nikolskoye

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  Nikolskoye airfield

Population development

year	Residents
1897	384
1939	252
1959	565
1970	1023
1979	1240
2002	808
2010	676

Note: census data

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)