Vesenny, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Vesenny (English)
Весенний (Russian)
-  Urban type settlement[1]  -
Work settlement[1]

Location of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug in Russia
Vesenny
Location of Vesenny in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Coordinates:
Administrative status (as of June 2009)
Country Russia
Federal subject Chukotka Autonomous Okrug[1]
Administrative district Bilibinsky District
Statistics
Population (June 2005 est.) 4 inhabitants[2]
Time zone MAGST (UTC+12:00)[3]
Postal code(s) 689450[4]

Vesenny (Russian: Весенний , literally meaning spring) is an urban-type settlement south west of Bilibino in Bilibinsky District (Raion), Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and part of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. Population as of 2005: 4.[2]

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History

Soviet period

The village was founded in spring 1965,[5] hence its name, although local history records that the reason the settlement was so called was because spring was always said to come earlier to this part of Chukotka than any other part of the Okrug.[6] Twenty years after the foundation of the settlement, it boasted a health center and a clinic, sauna, laundry service, savings bank, two hotels, a kindergarten and 205 children enrolled in secondary school.[6]

Post-Soviet period

The settlement was abandoned when the extraction of gold was no longer economically viable.[5] As of 2008 is in the process of being officially liquidated,[7] despite the fact that a handful of people continued to reside in the settlement according to an environmental impact report for the Kupol Gold Project.[2]

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Notes

  1. ^ a b c Law #33-OZ, Article 13.2
  2. ^ a b c Environmental Impact Assessment, Kupol Gold Project, Far East Russia June 2005, prepared by Bema Gold Corporation, p.87
  3. ^ 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).
  4. ^ Pochtovik Russian Mail Delivery Service Bilibinsky District
  5. ^ a b deadcities.ru - Vesenny
  6. ^ a b History of Vesenny (Russian)
  7. ^ Law #33, Article 14.2

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