Ryrkaipij

Village Ryrkaipij Рыркайпий Federal district far East region Chukchi Autonomous Okrug Rajon Iultinski First mention 1791 population 766 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 5  m Time zone UTC + 12 Telephone code (+7) 42734 Post Code 689360 License Plate 87 OKATO 77 215 000 007 Geographical location Coordinates 68 ° 55 ′  N , 179 ° 29 ′  W Coordinates: 68 ° 55 ′ 0 ″  N , 179 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  W

Situation in Russia

Location in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug

Ryrkaipij ( Russian from Chukchi Рырка́йпий ) is a village (selo) in the Chukchi Autonomous Okrug ( Russia ) with 766 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

View of Ryrkaipij from the road towards Mys Schmidta . In the middle of the Koschewnikow rocks (utjos Koschewnikowa), the western "half" of Cape Schmidt; in front of it the north bay (buchta Severnaya) of the Chukchi Sea (end of April 2006)

The place is about 500 km north-northeast of the district administrative center Anadyr on the coast of the Chukchi Sea , a marginal sea of ​​the Arctic Ocean at Cape Schmidt (Mys Schmidta).

Ryrkaipij is part of the Iultinski Rajon and is located almost 300 km north of its administrative center Egwekinot . It is the only village in the rural municipality of the same name (selskoje posselenije). About 4 km south-east of the village is the urban-type settlement Mys Schmidta , named after the cape , until its connection to the Iultinski rajon 2008, the administrative seat of the Schmidtowski rajon.

history

Cape Schmidt from the east in September 2005. On the left the Weber rock (utjos Webera), on the left (southeast) of it the settlement Mys Schmidta extends; on the right the Koschewnikow rock, in between the north bay, at the end of which - hidden from this direction by two more headlands - lies Ryrkaipij

The settlement was first mentioned in 1791 by the English navigator Joseph Billings and recorded on a map, who during this time undertook a nine-year expedition with Gavriil Sarytschew to the extreme northeast of Russia and crossed Chukotka from the southeast and along the north coast to Tschaunbucht and drove on to the Great Anjui . The Chukchi place name means walrus berth .

Ryrkaipij was also predominantly populated by members of the indigenous peoples of the Russian north , especially Chukchi , during the Soviet period, after a military airfield had been built nearby and the associated settlement of Mys Schmidta, which was mainly inhabited by Russians , had emerged . After the military use of the airfield was abandoned and a large part of the residents of Mys Schmidta moved away, Ryrkaipij is again the larger of the two places.

On December 5, 2019, international media reported on the place after an unusually high number of polar bears (more than 50 animals) had found there. The public activities in Ryrkaipij were then reduced to a minimum. There was speculation as to whether unusually warm weather had driven the bears from their usual location at Cape Schmidt to search for food. Several experts spoke out in favor of a permanent abandonment of the Ryrkaipij settlement and the evacuation of the place, since the danger of polar bears is too great in the long term.

traffic

Ryrkaipij is connected to Mys Schmidta, 4 km away, by a gravel road. There is a regular bus connection between the places. A winter road continues to the inland abandoned settlement of Iultin and from there a road to the district center Egwekinot on the south coast of Chukotka. From Ryrkaipij to the northwest along the coast there is a 400 km long winter slope over Billings to the abandoned mining town of Komsomolski .

The airport of the same name is located near Mys Schmidta (ICAO code UHMI ).

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. ↑ Ryrkaypiy: Far-north Russian village overrun by polar bears. BBC News, December 5, 2019, accessed December 5, 2019 .