Nutepelmen

Nutepelmen (Russian: Нутэпэльмен; Chukchi: Нутэпылмын), 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.

Nutepelmen

Нутэпэльмен
Selo[1]
Location of Nutepelmen in relation to Kolyuchin Island
Location of Nutepelmen
Nutepelmen
Location of Nutepelmen
Nutepelmen
Nutepelmen (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug)
Coordinates: 67°01′N 174°58′W
CountryRussia
Federal subjectChukotka Autonomous Okrug[1]
Administrative districtIultinsky District[2]
Population
 • Total157
 • Estimate 
(January 2016)[5][6]
158
 • Municipal districtChaunsky District[7]
Time zoneUTC+12 (MSK+9 [8])
Postal code(s)[9]
689235
OKTMO ID77715000121

Geography

The village, population 135, as of 2006:,[10] 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").

Kolyuchin Island is found to the north east of the village.

History

Early history

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.[10] 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.[10] the name of the village is derived from the Chukchi, meaning "Land in the Mist".[11]

Recent history

On September 10, 2010, a law was passed abolishing Nutepelmen at municipal level.[7] 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[12] and such responsibilities were taken over by Iultinsky municipal government on January 1, 2011.[13] Iultinsky municipal government also took control of all municipal property, all municipal property rights and all local budgets on this date.[14]

Climate

Nutepelmen has an arctic tundra climate (ET)[15] with long, bitterly cold and snowy winters and very short, chilly and wet summers.

Climate data for Nutepelmen/Kolyuchinskaya Bay
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 2.2
(36.0)		 1.1
(34.0)		 1.6
(34.9)		 5.0
(41.0)		 17.0
(62.6)		 20.0
(68.0)		 22.8
(73.0)		 23.0
(73.4)		 13.0
(55.4)		 9.3
(48.7)		 13.5
(56.3)		 2.2
(36.0)		 23.0
(73.4)
Average high °C (°F) −19.5
(−3.1)		 −21.9
(−7.4)		 −20.7
(−5.3)		 −13.9
(7.0)		 −3.1
(26.4)		 4.8
(40.6)		 8.7
(47.7)		 7.0
(44.6)		 2.5
(36.5)		 −3.8
(25.2)		 −11.3
(11.7)		 −18.6
(−1.5)		 −7.5
(18.5)
Daily mean °C (°F) −22.0
(−7.6)		 −24.5
(−12.1)		 −23.2
(−9.8)		 −16.7
(1.9)		 −5.3
(22.5)		 2.5
(36.5)		 5.9
(42.6)		 5.0
(41.0)		 1.3
(34.3)		 −5.5
(22.1)		 −13.6
(7.5)		 −21.0
(−5.8)		 −9.8
(14.4)
Average low °C (°F) −24.5
(−12.1)		 −27.0
(−16.6)		 −25.7
(−14.3)		 −19.4
(−2.9)		 −7.4
(18.7)		 0.1
(32.2)		 3.1
(37.6)		 2.9
(37.2)		 0.1
(32.2)		 −7.1
(19.2)		 −15.8
(3.6)		 −23.3
(−9.9)		 −12.0
(10.4)
Record low °C (°F) −41.8
(−43.2)		 −42.2
(−44.0)		 −41.1
(−42.0)		 −34.6
(−30.3)		 −22.8
(−9.0)		 −11.1
(12.0)		 −3.0
(26.6)		 −7.0
(19.4)		 −8.1
(17.4)		 −26.9
(−16.4)		 −33.3
(−27.9)		 −37.8
(−36.0)		 −42.2
(−44.0)
Average precipitation mm (inches) 46.8
(1.84)		 53.5
(2.11)		 39.0
(1.54)		 29.3
(1.15)		 76.6
(3.02)		 63.4
(2.50)		 53.7
(2.11)		 66.0
(2.60)		 106.1
(4.18)		 94.4
(3.72)		 90.6
(3.57)		 41.2
(1.62)		 760.6
(29.96)
Average precipitation days 4.1 4.6 4.7 4.1 5.7 4.4 4.3 4.3 4.8 6.4 5.2 3.3 55.9
Source: [16]

See also

Notes

References
  1. Law #33, Article 12.2
  2. Law #33, Article 16.2
  3. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  4. The results of the 2010 Census are given for Nutepelmen Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Iultinsky Municipal District. According to Law #149-OZ, Nutepelmen is the only inhabited locality on the territory of Nutepelmen Rural Settlement.
  5. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Численность постоянного населения Чукотского автономного округа по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2016 года Archived 2016-08-16 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
  6. This figure is given for the inter-settlement territory population for Iultinsky Municipal District. According to Law #40-OZ, Nutepelmen is the only inhabited locality in the inter-settlement territory of this municipal formation.
  7. Law #40-OZ, Article 1
  8. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  9. Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  10. Strogoff, p.127
  11. V.V. Leontev and K.A. Novikova, Топонимический словарь северо-востока СССР (Toponymic Dictionary of the Northeastern USSR) (1989) Magadan. p.280
  12. Law #40-OZ, Article 6.2
  13. Law #40-OZ, Article 6.4
  14. Law #40-OZ, Article 6.5
  15. McKnight and Hess, pp.235-7
  16. "Weather Averages for Nutepelmen/ Kolyuchinskaya Bay". climatebase.eu. Retrieved October 3, 2012.

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