Nikolskoye (Kamchatka)
Village
Nikolskoye
Нико́льское
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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.
- Population development
year | Residents |
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1897 | 384 |
1939 | 252 |
1959 | 565 |
1970 | 1023 |
1979 | 1240 |
2002 | 808 |
2010 | 676 |
Note: census data
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)