Kuogastach

It was located at the Yansky Bay of the Laptev Sea , 73 km northwest of Ust-Yansk .

In August 1942, about 300 Germans and Finns, as well as 55 Lithuanian families, 186 people, 19 of them teachers, were deported from the Leningrad Region. Initially, the exiles lived in tents. They built a fish processing plant and a bakery. We were also engaged in fishing. In the first winter, many died of disease (scurvy), from hunger and cold. In 1989, former exiles from Vilnius visited Kuogastakh and erected a cross at the memorial cemetery ^[1] .

In the 1950s, the port functioned in Kuogastakh, thus being the entrance “gate” for transshipment of cargo from sea lighters and “sailors” barges to small-sitting Yang barges. Cargo was transported manually in conditions of turbulent sea weather ^[2] . The complexity of this transshipment led to the construction of the Nizhneyansky river port ^[3] .

Nowadays places are abandoned ^[4] .