Ushakovskoe village. GM polar station "Is. Vrangel".

 arctic, ghost town

is located 750 kilometers north of Anadyr on Wrangel Island, at the intersection of Western and Eastern hemispheres in Shmidtovskom
region of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

Polar hydro-meteorological station 92012 "Wrangel Island, Chukchi Sea, 71, -178.6, 1926, Current GMS, MH-II, Pevek ITF

The oldest permanent settlement on the Soviet island. It was founded in 1926 on an expedition ship Icebreaker "Stavropol", under the leadership of Captain Milovzorova. The main objective of the expedition was the establishment of permanent fishing villages and scientific meteorological station on Wrangel Island. Was appointed Chief of wintering GA Ushakov, authorized Dalnekrayispolkoma management Wrangel and Herald Islands. Three years later it was replaced by AI Mineev, who worked on the island five years.

Already by 1929 the meteorological station and the residential hut had been transformed into a major economic factors. It had a school, hospital, sauna, pig farm, the warehouses of products and goods, fur stores, boats for hunting at sea, the radio station, a number of residential buildings. Flights linked the island with the other paragraphs of Chukotka. On the island visited Wrangel scientific expedition. began the search for minerals.

Currently, the village has about twenty houses, home to about 50 people, the same dogs. In the village there is no waste of civilization (which will make an impression on first come to him), as well as multi-storied buildings. Local people - people involved in the study of animals inhabiting the reserve and the village, as well as vegetation. Polar bears are often shalyat, strolling through the streets of the village. In Ushakovskom were earlier club, school and office. Now, the letter can be sent only with a helicopter, fly to the mainland.

Release to Ushakovskoe possible only by air. From Magadan and Anadyr to Cape Schmidt, of Cape Schmidt, once a month and rarely visited the village by helicopter. Wrangel Island, where the village is located, is a reserve, so you can get there only with the sanction obtained in the office of Central Reserve - Pevek.
In the village there is a monument to the famous polar explorer, GA Ushakov, founded the settlement, later named in honor of him.

In 2006, the township has a polar bear. Bear within 2 days of repeatedly trying to enter the house staff of the polar station, the night broke into the window of polar stations and residences over a dog, hunting dogs in the village. Bear almost bombed polar stations, meteorologists had left her and moved to homestead Reserve "Wrangel Island". In 2009, begin construction of a new polar station.
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