| Nutepelmen (English) Нутэпэльмен (Russian) |
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Location of Nutepelmen in relation to Kolyuchin Island |
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Location of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Russia |
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Nutepelmen
Location of Nutepelmen in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
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| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Chukotka Autonomous Okrug[1] |
| Administrative district | Iultinsky District[2] |
| Municipal status (as of October 2010) | |
| Municipal district | Chaunsky District[3] |
| Inter-settlement territory | yes[3] |
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| Population (2006 est.) | 135 inhabitants[4] |
| Time zone | MAGST (UTC+12:00)[5] |
| Postal code(s) | 689235[6] |
Nutepelmen (Russian: Нутэпэльмен), is a village (selo) on the northern shores of Iultinsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, in the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. The village is a traditional Chukchi and Yupik settlement in an area that has been inhabited for centuries. Whilst the village still exists, in 2010, a law was passed abolishing the municipal rural settlement of Nutepelmen, meaning that administration responsibilities passed to the central district administration.
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The village, population 135, as of 2006:[4], is formed mainly of Chukchi people, and is located on a spit at the entrance to Pyngopylkhyn Lagoon (from the Chukchi, Pynopelgyn, lit. "sucking orifice").
The location of the village on the northern cost by the Chukchi Sea, makes the village a dangerous place to be as they are often invaded by polar bears making their way down the coast from Vankarem[7].
Kolyuchin Island is found to the north east of the village.
Further along the coast, near the village, a stone circle can be found, dating from the sixteenth to seventeenth century when the Chukchi fought battles with the Cossack explorers. The skeletons of those killed in the battle can still be found on the surrounding tundra and the local Chukchi population regard the area as cursed.[4] As well as the stone circle, on the eastern shore of Kolyuchinskaya Bay is the ancient Inuit village of Anayan (inhabitants transferred to Neshkan in the 1950s by Soviet authorities), where ruined houses still stand.[4]
On September 10, 2010, a law was passed abolishing Nutepelmen at municipal level.[3] Nutepelmen as an entity continues to exist, but it is no longer a rural locality, this law stripped it of Selo status, it is simply an inhabited locality in the intra-settlement territory of Iultinsky municipal district. The right of the village to local government was removed[8] and such responsibilities were taken over by Iultinsky municipal government on January 1, 2011.[9] Iultinsky municipal government also took control of all municipal property, all municipal property rights and all local budgets on this date.[10]
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