abandoned Eskimo village Naukan. Polar hydro-meteorological station Naukan

 archaeological site, abandoned / shut down, ghost town, weather / meteorological station, object of cultural heritage of federal importance (Russia)

Naukan (Russian Adaptation Eskimo nyvukak - turfy) - the abandoned village on Cape Dezhneva. Prior to 1958, is the most easterly settlement of Eurasia, and then gave way to this title Uelen.

Naukan was founded approximately in the XIV century. In 1648, near Naukana was broken one kochey seeds Dezhneva, which now stands at this place several monuments, including a bust for the city Ingegruk, a wooden cross in 1910 and built a monument, a beacon of architect B. K. Semenenko (1956) .

The settlement was disbanded in 1958 as part of a campaign of consolidation in rural areas. Before the eviction of Naukane lived about four hundred thirteen genera people who lived in dugouts, which are constructed of fins, stone and sod. Since the end of XIX century, there existed 62 Yaranga, 21 wooden houses and 14 zemlyanok.
The unspoken eviction occurred since 1954, and linked it as suppose to the strategic objectives of a possible military confrontation with the United States, it formally ended Nov. 20, 1958 decision number 165 of Chukotka district executive committee of the House of Representatives of workers. If relocation were scattered carriers naukanskogo dialect of the Eskimo language, being partially settled, together with the Chukchi, or moved to places with other Eskimo dialects. Most of the Eskimo Naukana were resettled in the village. Nunyamo, which now does not exist in currently separate the family from Naukana Inuit live in the Chukchi villages Uelen, Lawrence and Lorino, as well as in the Eskimo villages of New Chaplino, Sireniki and Uelkal.
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