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Pychgynmygytgyn ( or ''Пичхинмыитхын''; ) is a freshwater lake in
Providensky District Providensky District (; Chukchi language, Chukchi: , ''Urèlḳujym rajon''; Yupik languages, Yupik: Уӷрилӄуйым район) is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #45-OZ district (raion), one of the administrative divisions of Ch ...
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Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Chukotka ( ; ), officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is the easternmost federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia. It is an Autonomous okrugs of Russia, autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East, and shares a border wi ...
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It has an area of . There are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake. The nearest inhabited place is Nutepelmen, located to the NNE. The name of the lake in
Chukot Chukchi ( ), also known as Chukot, is a Chukotko-Kamchatkan languages, Chukotko–Kamchatkan language spoken by the Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. The language is closely related to K ...
means "a lake near a rock where food was obtained."Leontiev V.V. & Novikova K.A. ''Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR'' / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House, 1989.


Geography

Pychgynmygytgyn is located in the
Chukotka Peninsula The Chukchi Peninsula (also Chukotka Peninsula or Chukotski Peninsula; , ''Chukotskiy poluostrov'', short form , ''Chukotka''), at about 66° N 172° W, is the easternmost peninsula of Asia. Its eastern end is at Cape Dezhnev near the village ...
, southwest of Kolyuchin Bay. It is a V-shaped lake that lies in a wide
intermontane basin Intermontane is a physiographic adjective formed from the prefix " inter-" (''signifying among, between, amid, during, within, mutual, reciprocal'') and the adjective "montane" (inhabiting, or growing in mountainous regions, especially cool, mo ...
of the central part of the
Chukotka Mountains The Chukotka Mountains () or Chukotka Upland (), is a mountainous area in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Far Eastern Federal District, Russia.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet C-8
/ref> River Eetikit flows into the western lakeshore and the long Kevyanvyveem flows out of Pychgynmygytgyn from the south. The lake freezes in the first half of September and stays under ice until June.Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Water of Russia
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Flora and fauna

Pychgynmygytgyn is surrounded by
tundra In physical geography, a tundra () is a type of biome where tree growth is hindered by frigid temperatures and short growing seasons. There are three regions and associated types of tundra: #Arctic, Arctic, Alpine tundra, Alpine, and #Antarctic ...
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Arctic char The Arctic char or Arctic charr (''Salvelinus alpinus'') is a cold-water fish in the family Salmonidae, native to alpine lakes, as well as Arctic and subarctic coastal waters in the Holarctic realm, Holarctic. Distribution and habitat It Spaw ...
is common in the lake. The Taranets char is also found in its waters.Occurrence of sympatric charr groups, Salvelinus, Salmonidae, in the lakes of Kamchatka: a legacy of the last glaciations: lacustrine Salvelinus
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See also

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List of lakes of Russia List of lakes in Russia in alphabetical order: * Achchyon (Аччён) * Akush (Акуш) * Arakhley (Арахле́й) * Astrodym (Астродым) * Baikal (Байкал) * Bakhmatovskoye (Бахматовское) * Baunt (Баунт) * Ba ...


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Lakes of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Providensky District {{ChukotkaAutonomousOkrug-geo-stub