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The Chukotka National Okrug (later Autonomous Okrug) was created in 1930 and was originally subordinated to Far Eastern Krai. In 1932, Kamchatka Oblast was created within the Far Eastern Krai (later Khabarovsk Krai) and was given jurisdiction over Chukotka from 1932 to 1953.
Apr 18, 2022 · 18.04.2022 // A decision to set up a monument to the geologist and writer Oleg Kuvaev was made by a mining company named after the writer's most famous book, the novel 'Territory'. Territory LLC is exploiting a tin deposit in Chukotka, but decided to use bronze for the five-metre monument to Kuvaev.
- Yakutia and The Lena River
- The Amur River and The Pacific Ocean
- Kolyma and Chukotka
- Kamchatka and Kuril Islands
Illustration by Stepan Zharky In 1619, after traveling more than 2,000 kilometers, a group of Russian soldiers reached the Yenisei River and established the first Russian settlement there. That same year they learned from a captured member of the Evenki tribe about another great river located another 1,000 kilometers from the Yenisei. It took seven...
By Stepan Zharky From the wooden fortress of Yakutsk, expeditions began to head even further east – to banks of the Arctic and Pacific Oceans. In 1639, a group of Cossacks headed by Ivan Moskvin sailed 800 kilometers to the confluence of the Lena River. They then continued for more eight weeks, traveling against the river’s flow, until they reached...
By Stepan Zharky In the same year, 1642, another group, headed by Mikhail Stadukhin, set out from Yakutsk in search of the Amur River. They ended up finding the Kolyma River instead. They trekked for more than 1000 kilometers, through a territory that is now called Oymyakon. This is one of the coldest places on the planet with winter temperature so...
By Stepan Zharky Stadukhin, who had discovered the Kolyma River, also became the first Russian to see the mountains of Kamchatka, albeit in the distance, while exploring the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk in 1651. The first man to actually reach Kamchatka was Ivan Kamchatka, a Siberian Cossack and trader from Yenisei, and it is for him that the mounta...
Anadyr (Russian: Ана́дырь, IPA: [ɐˈnadɨrʲ] ⓘ; Chukchi: Кагыргын, romanized: Kagyrgyn, IPA [kɑɣərˈɣən]; Southern Chukchi: Въэӈын, romanized: V"èňyn, Central Siberian Yupik: Ўиңа/Ўиңын, romanized: Winga/Wingen, IPA [11]) is a port town and the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located at the mouth of the Anadyr River at the tip of a peninsula that protrudes into Anadyrsky Liman.
Beginning in the 1920s, the Soviets organized the economic activities of both coastal and inland Chukchi and eventually established 28 collectively run, state-owned enterprises in Chukotka.
There was fierce resistance to the new order, in particular, from the inhabitants of the Chukotka Peninsula. It culminated in both sides fielding over a thousand soldiers in pitched battles.
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The first people came to Chukotka tens of thousands of years ago during the Stone Age. These were primitive hunters from more southern regions of Central and Eastern Asia. In those days tundra of North-East Asia and Alaska were a single natural region of Beringia with forests, herds of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, bison, reindeer.
