Chukotka
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Cities
- — the capital
- — small city on the edge of tundra, site of world's northernmost nuclear plant
- — port, village in north-east Chukotka with population of between 2,500 and 3,000
Other destinations
- — easternmost island of Russia
- — an impact crater lake
- — a
Understand
The Chukotka autonomous district is notable as being the closest point that both Eurasia and Russia gets to North America and the United States. A clear day you can see across the Bering Sea which separates them into Alaska. While Chukotka is massive at about , it only has a population of 55,000. With fewer than of road and no railway infrastructure; the population is mostly employed in mining and subsistence hunting.
Read
Classic Chukchi literature of Yuri Rytkheu.Talk
Like most people in Russia, Chukotkans mostly speak Russian, with several thousand Chukchi and Yukaghir speakers. Most of these people are bilingual in Russian and their native languages.
Get in
The way of getting in would be by either boat or plane at any established points of entry. Passengers of cruise liners are allowed to land on Chukotka and stay for 72 hours without visa and special permission.
By plane
- Bering Air offers charter flights from Nome to Provideniya Bay Airport (PVS) on either a Piper Navahoe, taking 80 minutes or a Beach King Air 200, taking 60 minutes. Flights are weather dependent and each airplane carries nine passengers. Charter flights can be arranged from Nome to Anadyr.
- There are flights from Moscow to Anadyr, but not every day. Transaero Airlines, VIM Airlines and Yakutia Airlines have such flights.
By boat
- In summer time some cruise ships go from Alaska and stop at Anadyr, Provideniya and more places. Search for "cruise anadyr" on Google. In 2014, Silversea Cruises has such cruises.