Ust-Schuger
Village
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Ust-Shtschuger ( Russian Усть-Щу́гер , also Усть-Щугор / Ust- Shtschugor ; Komi Тшугӧр ) is a village in the Komi Republic ( Russia ) with 27 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
Ust-Shchuger is located in the Ural foothills on the left bank of the Pechora , which is about 500 meters wide there , about two kilometers below the confluence of the eponymous right tributary Shchugor ( Ust-Shchugor means Shchugor estuary ).
Ust-Shchuger is one of the three villages of the rural municipality Ust-Sopleskoje selskoje posselenije ( Усть-Соплеское сельское поселение ) of the Wuktyl district . Its center, the small town of Wuktyl , is about 50 km west-southwest of the village, the seat of the rural community, the village of Ust-Soplesk , a good 10 km north.
climate
On December 31, 1978, the temperature in Ust-Shtschuger was −58.1 degrees Celsius; this makes it the point with the lowest recorded temperature in Europe to date .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
- ^ ASU World Meteorological Organization: Global Weather & Climate Extremes