Ambarchik | village, abandoned / shut down, weather / meteorological station

 village, abandoned / shut down, weather / meteorological station

Town Ambarchik (before the revolution rusks) - named for the remnants of the winter expedition in the Laptev Dmitry Yakovlevich 1740 ADDRESS: Bay Ambarchik (vost. part of the Kolyma Bay East Siberian Sea), Nizhnekolymskiy District Res.SAHA

Ambarchik began building in 1935 as a civilian settlement at ARS 'Ambarchik. Served eponymous port through which in some years passed by 200-300 thousand prisoners.
Gulag system collapsed shortly after Stalin's death, and with it collapsed and formed on the Kolyma camp way of managing. Began rehabilitation, many were clean passport and rushed to a kind of land. The edge was obezlyuzhivatsya, small towns and villages inhabited by free men and families of the officers of the NKVD, were abandoned as soon as the closed camps.
Now only remnants Ambarchike caved barracks so ubiquitous rusty "thorn" in the decayed columns represent places where they lived, suffered and died people.
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We live here only 2 wireless operator, a meteorologist, transmitting weather courts.
Quite a big house of the polar station is located on the hill a few hundred meters from the shore of the bay. At its center - the wooden stairs, the porch. Inside the building - a cross-cutting a long corridor: left - living room, right - a kitchen, mess, office space. During the building housed a diesel, feeding electricity to the station, warehouses and a garage, where there was a caterpillar.
In 1984, during the polar night, these Combining burned. The station did not become either a diesel engine or tractor. Polar, and it was a completely different composition, had to be very tight. Here is what polar explorers Igor Smilevets in his book "The road to the white horizons" (it is the year 2002): "A few weeks later, on the station Ambarchik has failed and is not working diesel - led the foundation supports ... Life's warm around the stove at kitchen. Emergency Honda also does not work - flew 5.5 kW generator. It turns out, three polar explorers were without radio, without alarm ... "
Ambarchik for naughty mouth of the Kolyma River was very important hydrometeorological station, which plays a special role in navigation software. Here in the navigation installed mariograf permanently fixing the level of the sea. And in the navigation level values passed on the air every hour. The device was installed on the pier, with the remaining days of camp. Pierce was in poor condition: there were no floor, and with great excitement pier rose, as if he were alive. In 1986 summer, during the floods that destroyed a neighboring pier, which protects the pier with the tide gauges from the strong north-west and the excitement of logs, which during the storm grew as a battering ram.

In addition to the level at the station carried out a range of other hydrological, meteorological and agrometeorological observations. Polar explorers were taken water samples to determine the oil pollution. Planned to build here ionospheric station.
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At an elevation of the polar station is a monument to the Victims of Political Repression 1932 - 1954 from residents of the Lower Kolyma "Opened in 1993
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