Yuzhny () is an
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
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) in
Chaunsky District
Chaunsky District (; Chukchi: , ''Čaan rajon'') is an administrativeLaw #33-OZ and municipalLaw #46-OZ district (raion), one of the six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is on the northern shore of the autonomous okrug and borders with I ...
of
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
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,
Russia
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, situated southeast of
Chaunskaya Bay
The Chaunskaya Bay or Chaun Bay () is an Arctic bay in the East Siberian Sea, in Chaunsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Chukotka, northeast Siberia. There is Port of Pevek.
Geography
The bay is open to the north and is 140 km in leng ...
, about south of
Pevek
Pevek (; Chukchi language, Chukchi: , ''Pèèkin'' / ''Pèèk'') is an Arctic port types of inhabited localities in Russia, town and the administrative center of Chaunsky District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Chaunskaya Bay (pa ...
, the
administrative center
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In countries with French as the administrative language, such as Belgiu ...
of the district. Though the settlement is abandoned, the mining company "Chukotka" still works in the area. As of 2011 Yuzhny was included in the list of settlements to be liquidated.
[Law #33, Article 14.2]
History
Yuzhny was the first of the gold mines to be opened in Chukotka in 1950,
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Yuzhny
by a group of geologists.
N.I. Chemodanov, Two Steps from the Pole: Notes from a Geologist. Magadan Publishing House, 1968. 64 с. Having started out as a normal business employing prospectors, the mines became part of Chaunchukotlag, the local division of the gulag
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system.
The mines were declared unprofitable and that there was no possibility of developing any other form of economy in 1999 and the settlement was closed along with a number of others in Chukotka.[Постановление Правительства РФ от 2 февраля 1998 г. N 128 ''О мерах социальной защиты населения ликвидируемых поселков золотодобытчиков в Чукотском автономном округe''](_blank)
(''Russian Federation Government resolution dated February 2, 1998 No. 128 on measures of social protection of the population of liquidating estates gold miners in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug "Russian Federation Government resolution dated February 2, 1998 No. 128 on measures of social protection of the population of liquidating estates gold miners in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug''). The Russian government guaranteed funds to transport non-working pensioners and the unemployed in liquidated settlements including Yuzhny from Chukotka to other parts of Russia.
See also
* List of inhabited localities in Chaunsky District
References
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{{Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Urban-type settlements in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Populated places established in 1950