Pevek

Pevek is an Arctic port town and the workplace of Chaunsky District in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Pevek is the northernmost metropolis in Russia and in Asia. It is a modern agreement mounted after World War I to provide a port for the export of minerals as part of the increasing Northern Sea Route. During the 1940s and 1950s, the area surrounding Pevek became the web page of several gulags where prisoners mined uranium.

In latest years, some of the mines have become unprofitable and feature closed, causing many residents to move to greater significant areas in Russia and the port infrastructure to decay. The region round Pevek changed into already acknowledged to Russians with the aid of the mid-18th century, because the facts of the Great Northern Expedition record the invention of Cape Shelag.

Further references to the cape have been made inside the facts of the Billings expedition, with Russian explorers first describing Chaunskaya Bay inside the 1760s. The earliest records of the settlement of Pevek had been made by the author Tikhon Semushkin, who determined a Chukchi searching resort and yaranga in 1926. By the mid-Thirties, Pevek have become an essential port inside the area, because of the natural harbor supplied with the aid of Chaunskaya Bay, the expansion of the Northern Sea Route, and the invention of tin on the Pyrkakay mine 60 kilometers away.