Rytkuchi is a Chukchi national village in the Chaunsky district of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug of Russia . Until 2015, it formed the rural settlement of Rytkuchi .
| Village | |
| Rytkuchi | |
|---|---|
| chuck. Yrytkuchyn [1] | |
 | |
| A country |  Russia |
| Subject of the federation | Chukotka Autonomous Okrug |
| Area | Chaunsky |
| Chapter | Zhukova Galina Ivanovna |
| History and Geography | |
| Based | 1934 |
| Square | 0.486 kmΒ² |
| Center height | 6 m |
| Timezone | UTC + 12 |
| Population | |
| Population | β 464 [2] people ( 2015 ) |
| Nationalities | Chukchi, Russian |
| Digital identifiers | |
| Telephone code | +7 4273795 |
| Postcode | 689417 |
| OKATO Code | 77237825001 |
| OKTMO Code | |
The name in translation from the Chukchi Yrytkuchyn means βarrowβ or βshooting rangeβ (from the Chuk .
Content
Geographical position
It is located on the banks of the river of the same name at the top of the Chaun Bay . Initially, the village was located at the mouth of the Chaun River, where in 1934 the Chaun Cultural Base was founded. In the 1950s he was transferred to the mouth of Rytkuchi. Distance to the city ββof district significance - 554 km.
Population
| Population | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 [4] | 2010 [5] | 2012 [6] | 2013 [7] | 2014 [8] | 2015 [2] |
| 509 | β 517 | β 495 | β 483 | β 472 | β 464 |
Transport
The village is connected with the administrative center of the district by a 120-kilometer winter car, the travel time is more than two hours. Since 2016, engineering surveys have been carried out along the route of the proposed year-round dirt road. During the summer navigation, communication with the village is carried out by river.
From May to December, flights of the Mi-8 helicopter with a frequency of 1-4 times a month are carried out in Rytkuchi [9] .
Economics and social infrastructure
The main activity of local residents is reindeer herding and fishing. In the village there is a downhole point of the municipal enterprise SHP "Chaunskoye".
Not far from the village was the world's only high-latitude specialized field helminthological station [10] .
In the village there are: a secondary school, a branch of the Pevek children's art school, a kindergarten "Rucheek", a local hospital, a communications center, an ethnographic museum, a library, a House of Culture, a shop.
Since 1944, the meteorological station M-2 Ust-Chaun has been operating in the village [11] .
Streets: Mira, Ozernaya, Soviet.
Culture
Rytkuchi is famous for the fact that traditions and rites of the Chukchi people are carefully preserved here. The creator of the local national ensemble "Yogattet" ( Chukot. - "Northern Lights"), storyteller, performer of songs and dances, Klavdia Sergeyevna Geutval every summer, put yaranga on the outskirts of the village, lived in it, using only traditional household items, and invited her to visit all residents. Russian and foreign ethnographers and linguists often come here to study the traditional way of life and the language of the Chukchi.
Topographic maps
- Map sheet R-59-XXVII, XXVIII Rytkuchi . Scale: 1: 200,000. Terrain condition for 1980. 1986 edition
Notes
- β 1 2 Menovshchikov G. A. Local names on the map of Chukotka. Brief toponymic dictionary / Scientific. ed. V.V. Leontiev. - Magadan : Magadan book publishing house, 1972. - S. 168. - 207 p.
- β 1 2 Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2015 . Date of treatment August 6, 2015. Archived on August 6, 2015.
- β Leontyev V.V. , Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov ; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House , 1989 .-- S. 330. - 456 p. - 15,000 copies. - ISBN 5-7581-0044-7 .
- β 2002 All-Russian Census Data: Table No. 02c. Population and prevailing nationality for each rural locality. M .: Federal State Statistics Service, 2004
- β Population of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, urban districts, municipalities, urban and rural settlements. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census . Date of treatment November 25, 2014. Archived November 25, 2014.
- β Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities. Table 35. Estimated resident population as of January 1, 2012 . Date of treatment May 31, 2014. Archived May 31, 2014.
- β The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2013. - M.: Federal State Statistics Service of Rosstat, 2013. - 528 p. (Table 33. The population of urban districts, municipalities, urban and rural settlements, urban settlements, rural settlements) . Date of treatment November 16, 2013. Archived November 16, 2013.
- β Table 33. The population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2014 . Date of treatment August 2, 2014. Archived on August 2, 2014.
- β State Enterprise ChAO "ChukotAVIA"
- β Reference book βBiological hospitals of the Soviet Northβ
- β FSBI "Chukotka UGMS"