Magadan

Magadan is a port town and the authoritative focal point of Magadan Oblast, Russia, situated on the Sea of Okhotsk in Nagayev Bay and filling in as a passage to the Kolyma area. Magadan is the authoritative focus of the oblast. Within the structure of regulatory divisions, it is, as one with the urban-type settlements of Sokol and Uptar, consolidated as the town of oblast noteworthiness of Magadan — a managerial unit with the status equivalent to that of the districts. As a city division, the town of oblast centrality of Magadan is fused as Magadan Urban Okrug. Shipbuilding and angling are the significant ventures. The town has a seaport and a little universal airplane terminal, the Sokol Airport.

There is likewise a little local airplane terminal close-by, Magadan 13. The unpaved Kolyma Highway leads from Magadan to the rich gold-mining district of the upper Kolyma River and afterward on to Yakutsk. The town has various social organizations including the Regional Museum of Anthropology, a geographical historical center, a local library and a college. The town has the new Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Trinity, an as of late finished Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity and the Mask of Sorrow dedication, a huge figure in memory of Stalin's exploited people, structured by Ernst Neizvestny. The Church of the Nativity is really a piece of the see of Anchorage, Alaska and clergymen to the overcomers of the work camps. It is staffed by a few ministers and nuns.