Nachikinskoe (), or Nachikinskoye, Nachikinsky, is a

rural settlement The definition of a rural settlement depends on the country, in some countries, a rural settlement is any settlement in the areas defined as rural by a governmental office, e.g., by the national census bureau. This may include even rural towns. ...

in the

Yelizovsky District Yelizovsky District () is an administrativeLaw #46 and municipalLaw #255 district (raion) of Kamchatka Krai, Russia, one of the eleven in the krai. It is located in the south of the krai. The area of the district is .Russian Federal Statistics Ser ...

Kamchatka Krai Kamchatka Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (a krai), situated in the Russian Far East. It is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. Its administrative center and largest types of inhabited l ...

, Russia. The administrative center is the village of

Sokoch Sokoch () is a rural locality in the Yelizovsky District of Kamchatka Krai in Far Eastern Russia. It is the administrative centre of Nachikinsky and lies by road west of Yelizovo Yelizovo () is a town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the ...

History

The villages of Nachiki and Malka were part of the Milkovsky District, but communication with Milkovo was difficult, since it was away. A highway built from

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (, ) is a city and the administrative center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It is located in the Far East of the country and lies along the coast of Avacha Bay by the Pacific Ocean, nearby Khalaktyrskoye Lake. As of the 202 ...

towards the village of Nachiki improved communications, and on 5 September 1944 Milka and Nachiki were transferred to the administrative region of the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. On 12 February 1956 a general meeting was attended by 64 of the 72 adults who lived in the Malka village. It was decided to abolish the Malkinsky Village Council and make Malka part of the Nachikinsky Village Council. Sokoch is the administrative centrer of Nachikinsky and lies by road west of

Yelizovo Yelizovo () is a town in Kamchatka Krai, Russia, located on the Avacha River northwest of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky with a population of History Founded in 1848 as the '' selo'' of Stary Ostrog (), it was renamed Zavoyko () in 1897, after the ...

. The settlement was established in 1947 on the

Plotnikova River The Plotnikova ()Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (, ) is a city and the administrative center of Kamchatka Krai, Russia. It is located in the Far East of the country and lies along the coast of Avacha Bay by the Pacific Ocean, nearby Khalaktyrskoye Lake. As of the 202 ...

, first with the district center of Milkovo, and then with Atlasovo and the Ust-Kamchatsky District. Most of the road runs between the

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and Sredinny (or Middle) ranges. It crosses many rivers and streams along its length. The present status and boundaries of the rural settlement were established by the Law of Kamchatka Region dated December 29, 2004 No. 255 "On Establishing the Borders of Municipalities Located in the Yelizovsky District of the Kamchatka Region, and on Giving them the Status of a Municipal District, Urban, and Rural Settlement". It covers an area of . The distance by road to the regional center is .

Population

The

Russian Census (2010) The 2010 Russian census () was the second census of the Russia, Russian Federation population after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, dissolution of the Soviet Union. Preparations for the census began in 2007 and it took place between October ...

determined that the population of the rural settlement was 1304. This was divided between five villages: As of 2018 the population was 1265.

Lake

The rural settlement contains the glacier-fed Nachikinskoye Lake (Ozero Nachikinskoye), the source of the

Plotnikova River The Plotnikova ()sockeye salmon The sockeye salmon (''Oncorhynchus nerka''), also called red salmon, kokanee salmon, blueback salmon, or simply sockeye, is an anadromous species of salmon found in the Northern Pacific Ocean and rivers discharging into it. This species is a ...

coho salmon The coho salmon (''Oncorhynchus kisutch;'' Karuk: achvuun) is a species of anadromous fish in the salmon family (biology), family and one of the five Pacific salmon species. Coho salmon are also known as silver salmon (or "silvers") and is often ...

and

pink salmon Pink salmon or humpback salmon (''Oncorhynchus gorbuscha'') is a species of euryhaline ray-finned fish in the family Salmonidae. It is the type species of the genus ''Oncorhynchus'' (Pacific salmon), and is the smallest and most abundant of t ...

. During the spawning period the plentiful fish attract many

brown bear The brown bear (''Ursus arctos'') is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America. Of the land carnivorans, it is rivaled in size only by its closest relative, the polar bear, which is much less variable in size and slightly bigger on av ...

s. A study of charrs of the genus ''

Salvelinus ''Salvelinus'' is a genus of Salmonidae, salmonid fish often called char or charr; some species are called "trout". ''Salvelinus'' is a member of the subfamily Salmoninae within the family Salmonidae. The genus has a northern circumpolar distrib ...

'' in the lake showed that two populations of closely related but morphologically distinct

sympatric In biology, two closely related species or populations are considered sympatric when they exist in the same geographic area and thus frequently encounter each other. An initially interbreeding population that splits into two or more distinct spe ...

charrs can stably coexist in the lake.

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