Beringovsky (inhabited locality)

Beringovsky (English)
Беринговский (Russian)
-  Urban-type settlement[1]  -
Work settlement[1]

Location of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Russia
Beringovsky
Location of Beringovsky in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Coordinates:
Administrative status (as of June 2011)
Country Russia
Federal subject Chukotka Autonomous Okrug[2]
Administrative district Anadyrsky District[2]
Municipal status (as of November 2008)
Municipal district Anadyrsky Municipal District[3]
Urban settlement Beringovsky Urban Settlement[3]
Administrative center of Beringovsky Urban Settlement
Statistics
Population (2010 Census,
preliminary)		 1,403 inhabitants[4]
Population (2002 Census) 1,998 inhabitants[5]
Population 2,000 inhabitants
Time zone MAGST (UTC+12:00)[6]
Founded 1944[7]
Previous names Ugolny (until 1944),[7]
Beringovsky (until 1966),[7]
Nagorny (until 1975)[7]
Postal code(s) 689100[8]
Dialing code(s) +7 42733[9]

Beringovsky (Russian: Беринговский) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Anadyrsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, and a port on the Bering Sea. Population: 1,403 (2010 Census preliminary results);[4] 1,998 (2002 Census);[5] 3,044 (1989 Census).[10]

Municipally, Beringovsky is incorporated as Beringovsky Urban Settlement.[3] The settlement was founded to provide a port for the nearby mines.

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History

Soviet

The origins of modern Beringovsky are complicated. Following the discovery of a coal seam in the area towards the end of the first half of the 20th century, the first settlement was established in 1944 as Ugolny (not to be confused with Ugolnye Kopi, though both places were the site of mines as the names would suggest) to serve the new Bukhtugol mine. Following the establishment of Beringovsky District, Ugolny was renamed Beringovsky. Then, in 1975, the settlement was moved to a place called Nagorny, which was then renamed Beringovsky to provide continuity for the administrative centre.[7]

Post-Soviet

As with seemingly all settlements in the Russian Arctic, life in Beringovsky is traditionally hard. In the late 1990s, Beringovsky had a population of around 3,000 when all heating, water and electricity failed, creating an extremely serious situation in such a remote settlement. This problem was then further exacerbated by then-Governor Nazarov banning all outside reporters and researchers, both from Moscow and abroad from visiting the area as well as censoring outgoing mail and telegrams from the community.[11] Following this incident, sources report that by 2002, under a program of resettlement designed by Roman Abramovich and run by a private company established by the Okrug administration, Regionstroy, nearly the whole of the population of Beringovsky had been resettled by late 2002.[12] However, this does not seem to tally with the official census results for 2002. Thompson estimates the population of Beringovsky in the late 1990s as being around 3,000 however, census results for 2002 give a population of just under 2,000. This would not seem to indicate that almost the entire population had been resettled, unless the figures Thompson deals with are specific to Beringovsky, whilst the census figure includes populations for both Beringovsky and the adjacent settlement of Nagorny, since, in 2000, the neighbouring (and now former) settlement of Nagorny was merged with Beringovsky into one urban type settlement.[13] Further confusion is added as Thompson specifically refers to Beringovsky as being "in the process of official liquidation". However, to date Beringovsky has neither been liquidated nor is it in the process of liquidation and is included in all the relevant legal documentation as an extant settlement on both municipal[3] and administrative[1] levels.

Economy

The economy of the settlement has traditionally been dominated by coal mining[12] and the majority of the current residents are involved either in the mining itself or the administrative side of the mining business. As a result of this, the indigenous proportion of the population is comparatively low compared to other settlements in the autonomous okrug, numbering around 350 as of 2006.[7]

Culture

Like Uelen to the northeast, Beringovsky is well known as being a centre for indigenous art, particularly whale bone carving.[7]

The Bering dialect of the Aleut language is not directly connected with this settlement, though both the dialect's and the settlement's name are derived from Vitus Bering.

Administrative vs. municipal jurisdiction

Until July 2008, Beringovsky was a part of both Beringovsky Municipal and Beringovsky Administrative District and served as the administrative centre of both. In May 2008, Beringovsky Municipal District was merged into Anadyrsky Municipal District[14] (the administrative centre of which is Anadyr); however, this change did not affect the borders of Beringovsky Administrative District. Beringovsky continued to serve as the administrative centre of the latter until June 2011, when Beringovsky Administrative District was merged into Anadyrsky Administrative District and ceased to exist.

References

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Law #33, Article 16.2
  2. ^ a b Directive #517-rp
  3. ^ a b c d Law #148, Article 11
  4. ^ a b Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2011). "Предварительные итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года (Preliminary results of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census). Federal State Statistics Service. http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/results-inform.php. Retrieved 2011-04-25. 
  5. ^ a b Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек (Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002). Federal State Statistics Service. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls. Retrieved 2010-03-23. 
  6. ^ Правительство Российской Федерации. Постановление №725 от 31 августа 2011 г. «О составе территорий, образующих каждую часовую зону, и порядке исчисления времени в часовых зонах, а также о признании утратившими силу отдельных Постановлений Правительства Российской Федерации». Вступил в силу по истечении 7 дней после дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Российская Газета", №197, 6 сентября 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011 On the Composition of the Territories Included into Each Time Zone and on the Procedures of Timekeeping in the Time Zones, as Well as on Abrogation of Several Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation. Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication).
  7. ^ a b c d e f g Fute, pp. 93ff
  8. ^ Russian Post. Beringovsky (Russian)
  9. ^ Official website of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Information about Beringovsky District
  10. ^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров. (All Union Population Census of 1989. Present population of union and autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts and okrugs, krais, oblasts, districts, urban settlements, and villages serving as district administrative centers.)" (in Russian). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года (All-Union Population Census of 1989). Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics. 1989. http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus89_reg.php. Retrieved 2010-03-23. 
  11. ^ N. Thompson Administrative Resettlement and the Pursuit of Economy: The Case of Chukotka, p.281
  12. ^ a b N. Thompson Migration and Resettlement in Chukotka: A Research Note Eurasian Geogrpahy and Economics, Volume 45, Number 1, pp. 73-81 January–February 2004.
  13. ^ Изменения в административно-территориальном устройстве субъектов Российской Федерации за 1989-2002 годы (Changes in administrative-territorial structure of subjects of the Russian Federation for the years 1989-2002)
  14. ^ Law #41, Article 1.4

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External links

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