Karamken () was a

rural locality In general, a rural area or a countryside is a geographic area that is located outside towns and cities. Typical rural areas have a low population density and small settlements. Agricultural areas and areas with forestry are typically describ ...

settlement Settlement may refer to: *Human settlement, a community where people live *Settlement (structural), downward movement of a structure's foundation *Settlement (finance), where securities are delivered against payment of money *Settlement (litigatio ...

, formerly

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlement, abbreviated: ; , abbreviated: ; ; ; ; . is an official designation for lesser urbanized settlements, used in several Central and Eastern Europe, Central and Eastern European countries. The term was primarily used in the So ...

from 1974 to 2012) in the

Khasynsky District Khasynsky District () is an administrative district (raion), one of the eight in Magadan Oblast, Russia.Law #1292-OZ As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Khasynsky Urban Okrug.Law #1885-OZ Its administrative center is the urban locali ...

Magadan Oblast Magadan Oblast is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia. It is geographically located in the Russian Far East, Far East region of the country, and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. Magadan ...

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Geography

This abandoned settlement is located by the bank of the

Khasyn The Khasyn () is a river in Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East, a tributary of the Arman. It is long, with a drainage basin of . The R504 Kolyma Highway runs by the riverside along a long stretch.Google Earth The name of the river originated in t ...

, flowing from the

Kolyma Mountains The Kolyma Mountains or Kolyma Upland (), is a system of mountain ranges in northeastern Siberia, lying mostly within the Magadan Oblast, along the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk in the Kolyma region. It constitutes the watershed between the ba ...

History

Karamken was established in the 1930s in connection with the construction of the

Kolyma Highway The R504 Kolyma Highway (, ''Federal'naya Avtomobil'naya Doroga «Kolyma»,'' "Federal Automobile Highway 'Kolyma'"), part of the M56 route, is a road through the Russian Far East. It connects Magadan with the town of Nizhny Bestyakh, located ...

. After a

gold Gold is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol Au (from Latin ) and atomic number 79. In its pure form, it is a brightness, bright, slightly orange-yellow, dense, soft, malleable, and ductile metal. Chemically, gold is a transition metal ...

and

silver Silver is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Ag () and atomic number 47. A soft, whitish-gray, lustrous transition metal, it exhibits the highest electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, and reflectivity of any metal. ...

ore deposit was discovered nearby in 1964, the construction of an ore enrichment factory began in 1971 above the town. In 1974 Karamken received

status. After the ore deposits were completely exhausted, the company that was building the site was closed in 1995, after which the majority of the residents left the settlement. Karamken had been a rural settlement again from 2012, after the number of inhabitants calculated from registration data had dropped to 60 at the beginning of 2012. The remaining residents were resettled by 31 July 2014, so the liquidation planned since 2006 was carried out.Закон Магаданской области от 31 июля 2014 года № 1777-ОЗ «Об упразднении сельского поселения „посёлок Карамкен“»
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References

{{reflist Former populated places in Magadan Oblast 1930s establishments in Russia 2014 disestablishments in Russia Ghost towns in Siberia