Pewek

city Pewek Певек coat of arms Federal district far East region Chukchi Autonomous Okrug Rajon Tschaunski Founded 1933 City since 1967 surface 51  km² population 4162 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 82 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 20  m Time zone UTC + 12 Telephone code (+7) 42737 Post Code 689400 License Plate 87 OKATO 77 230 501 Geographical location Coordinates 69 ° 42 ′  N , 170 ° 19 ′  E Coordinates: 69 ° 42 ′ 0 ″  N , 170 ° 19 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug

List of cities in Russia

Pewek (2008)

Pewek ( Russian Певе́к ; Chukchi Пээкин / Peekin ) is a city in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug ( Russia ) with 4162 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). The city is the administrative center of Tschaunski Rajons . It has a port on the Northern Sea Route and an airport (IATA: PWE, ICAO: UHMP).

geography

The city is located on the eastern edge of the Tschaun Bay on the East Siberian Sea . Located 640 km northwest of the Oblast capital Anadyr , Pevek is the northernmost city in Russia. The Routan Islands are in front of the city.

history

Pewek was created in 1933 in connection with the exploration of raw materials on Chukotka and plans to use the Northern Sea Route. It was named after the 518  m high mountain Peekinei ( Пэкиней , thick mountain , from the Chukchian peek or pewek for thick ).

In Pewek the administration of several penal camps was located in the Gulag system , for example that of the Tschauntschukotlag from 1949 to 1957 and that of the Tschaunlag (named after the Tschaun river, which flows further south into the bay of the same name ) from 1951 to 1953 . Up to 11,000 people were temporarily detained in these camps. In 1967 the place received city rights.

With the economic crisis of the 1990s and the decline of the Northern Sea Route, the population dropped dramatically.

Population development

Pewek Seen from the Sea (2006)

year	Residents
1939	426
1959	5,752
1970	10,528
1979	11,060
1989	12,915
2002	5,206
2009	4.162

Note: census data

Culture and sights

In Pewek there has been a local history museum and a geological museum since 1977.

Near the mouth of the Pegtymel River , about 150 kilometers east of Pewek, over 100 Stone Age rock carvings were discovered in the 1960s . a. Reindeer hunters and boats pose.

economy

In the area around Pewek there are deposits of gold , tin , mercury and hard coal . Today, the city is the main logistic center for gold prospecting, which is operated by several smaller artels . There are various construction and utility companies in Pewek; Food is produced for local needs.

The mining of tin ore started in 1941 in the settlement Walkumei ( Валькумей ) twelve kilometers to the south was stopped in 1998, and with it its further processing into concentrate in Pewek. The mining facilities in Walkumei were partly dismantled, partly "conserved".

The Akademik Lomonossow nuclear power plant has been located in Pewek since the end of 2019 . It is the only floating nuclear power plant in the world to date. It is supposed to supply the oil drilling platforms in front of the city as well as Pewek itself with electricity. The “Akademik Lomonossov” replaces the Bilibino nuclear power plant , making Pewek the location of the world's northernmost nuclear power plant.

Web links

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

• City Portal (Russian)

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
2. ↑ TschaunTschukotLag on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
3. ↑ TschaunLag on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
4. ↑ Walkumei ( Memento of the original from December 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website Vanished Cities of Russia (Russian) 
5. ↑ Russia: First floating nuclear power plant generates electricity: Controversial project orf.at, December 19, 2019, accessed December 19, 2019.