Omolon and the Great and Little Anyuy Rivers that flow west into the Kolyma River in Yakutia ( Sakha).Anadyr River, with tributaries Belaya, Tanyurer, and Velikaya Rivers, as well as the Avtatkuul River, which flows across the Anadyr Lowlands into the Gulf of Anadyr.
This area is very mountainous, containing the Chukotsky Mountains (highest point Iskhodnaya) and the Anadyr Highlands.Ĭhukotka's rivers spring from its northern and central mountains. About half of its area is above the Arctic Circle. The peninsula's easternmost point, Cape Dezhnev, is also the easternmost point of mainland Russia.Įcologically, Chukotka can be divided into three distinct areas: the northern Arctic desert, the central tundra, and the taiga in the south. The Chukchi Peninsula projects eastward forming the Bering Strait between Siberia and the Alaska Peninsula, and encloses the north side of the Gulf of Anadyr. The region is the northeasternmost region of Russia, and since the Alaska Purchase, it has been the only part of Russia lying partially in the Western Hemisphere.Ĭhukotka is bordered in the north by the Chukchi Sea and the East Siberian Sea, which are part of the Arctic Ocean in the east by the Bering Strait and the Bering Sea, part of the Pacific Ocean in the south by Kamchatka Krai and Magadan Oblast and in the west by the Sakha Republic. Chukotka is the second-least-populated federal subject, and the least densely populated federal subject in Russia. The autonomous okrug covers an area of over 737,700 square kilometers (284,800 sq mi), and is the seventh-largest federal subject in Russia, although the vast region has a population of only 50,526. The village of Uelen is the easternmost settlement in Russia and the closest substantial settlement to the United States ( Alaska). It is home to Lake Elgygytgyn, an impact crater lake, and Anyuyskiy, an extinct volcano. It is the only autonomous okrug in Russia that is not included in, or subordinate to, another federal subject, having separated from Magadan Oblast in 1992. Anadyr is the largest town and the capital, and the easternmost settlement to have town status in Russia.Ĭhukotka is primarily populated by ethnic Russians, Chukchis, and other indigenous peoples. It is an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East, and shares a border with the Sakha Republic to the west, Magadan Oblast to the south-west, and Kamchatka Krai to the south. Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, or Chukotka ( Чуко́тка) is the easternmost federal subject of Russia.
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