Lamutskoye () is a rural locality (a '' selo'') in

Anadyrsky District Anadyrsky District (; Chukchi language, Chukchi: , ''Kagyrgyn rajon'') is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #148-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Rus ...

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, located northwest of Markovo and northeast of

Chuvanskoye Chuvanskoye () is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, rural locality (a ''village#Russia, selo'') in Anadyrsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Russia, located west of Markovo, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Markovo on the banks of the Ye ...

on the middle reaches of the

Anadyr River The Anadyr (; Yukaghir: Онандырь; ) is a river in the far northeast of Siberia which flows into the Gulf of Anadyr of the Bering Sea and drains much of the interior of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Its basin corresponds to the Anadyrsky ...

.Chereshev, p. 12 As of the 2010 Census, its population was 173.The results of the 2010 Census and the 2014 estimate are given for Lamutskoye Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Anadyrsky Municipal District. According to Law #148-OZ, Lamutskoye is the only inhabited locality on the territory of Lamutskoye Rural Settlement.

Name and geography

The name of Lamutskoye is derived from the word ''Lamut''—an archaic name for the

Evens The Evens /əˈvɛn/ ( Even: эвэн; pl. эвэсэл, ''evesel'' in Even and эвены, ''eveny'' in Russian; formerly called ''Lamuts'') are a people in Siberia and the Russian Far East. They live in regions of the Magadan Oblast and ...

Electoral Commission of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Lamutskoye
(the dominant indigenous people in the area who migrated to western Chukotka from what is now the

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of RussiaDallman, Map 3.6). It stands in the upper reaches of the

, near the mouth of the Bolshoy Peledon River.

History

Founded in 1936 (or, according to other sources, in 1940) as a

collective farm Collective farming and communal farming are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member-o ...

, Lamutskoye served as a central hub for the Lamutsko-Yablonskaya nomadic reindeer breeders group, consisting of only eight itinerant families. In 1960, along with

and Markovo, the farm was merged to form the Markovsky

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. After the

dissolution of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...

in 1991, small localities like Lamutskoye were extremely hard hit. In 2000, the monthly living wage across Chukotka was estimated at 3,800

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; however, the average wage in Lamutskoye was a meager 50–100 rubles.Chereshev, p. 14

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Lamutskoye is subordinated to

.Directive #517-rp Within the framework of municipal divisions, Lamutskoye is a part of Lamutskoye Rural Settlement within Anadyrsky Municipal District.Law #148-OZ

Culture and infrastructure

Lamutskoye is the starting point for the Ryilet festivities—the longest reindeer race in the world held each year over a course between Lamutskoye and Chuvanskoye—in which racers compete for the Governor's Cup. Lamutskoye's infrastructure consists of a school, library, and the

Palace of Culture Palace of Culture (, , ''wénhuà gōng'', ) or House of Culture (Polish: ''dom kultury'') is a common name (generic term) for major Club (organization), club-houses (community centres) in the former Soviet Union and the rest of the Eastern bloc ...

, which conducts traditional feasts, races, and ceremonies connected with the reindeer herders.

Demographics

As of 2010, the official census results showed a population of 173, of whom 98 were male and 75 female—a significant reduction from the 2006 estimate of 230Strogoff, p. 93 and the 2005 estimate of 213 (according to a report prepared for the Kupol gold project,Bema Gold Corporation, pp. 87–89). Of the 213 people living here in 2005, 212 were of indigenous origin. The ethnic composition of Lamutskoye's population is as follows:

Climate

Lamutskoye has a continental

subarctic climate The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a continental climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of ...

(Köppen climate classification ''Dfc'') with bitterly cold, very long winters and short, very mild summers.McKnight and Hess, pp. 232–235

References

Notes

Sources

* * *E. Chereshev and A. Shestakov
Anadyr River Watershed, Rapid Assessment Report
Institute of biological Problems of the North, Wild Salmon Center, June 2003. *W. K. Dallmann
Indigenous Peoples of the north of the Russian Federation
Map 3.6, ''Chukotskiy Avtonomyy Okrug''. 1997. *Bema Gold Corporation
Environmental Impact Assessment, Kupol Gold Project, Far East Russia
June 2005. * *M. Strogoff, P.-C. Brochet, and D. Auzias
''Petit Futé: Chukotka''
"Avant-Garde" Publishing House, 2006.

External links

Photo of Lamutskoye
{{Use mdy dates, date=November 2012 Anadyrsky District Rural localities in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug