Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Chukotka, officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is the easternmost federal subject of Russia. It is an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East, and shares a border with the Republic of Sakha to the west, Magadan Oblast to the south-west, and Kamchatka Krai to the south, as well as a maritime border on the Bering Strait with the U.S. state of Alaska to the east. Anadyr is the largest town and the capital, and the easternmost settlement to have town status in Russia.
Frozen wilderness of far northern Chukotka
Painting of Chukchi by Louis Choris, 1816
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Chukotka, 2008
Uelen on the Arctic Ocean is the easternmost settlement in Russia and the whole of Eurasia.
The Russian Far East is a region in Northeast Asia. It is the easternmost part of Russia and the Asian continent; and is administered as a part of the Far Eastern Federal District, which is located between Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia and the Pacific Ocean. The area's largest city is Khabarovsk, followed by Vladivostok. The region shares land borders with the countries of Mongolia, China, and North Korea to its south, as well as maritime boundaries with Japan to its southeast, and with the United States along the Bering Strait to its northeast.
Sikhote-Alin is the home to Amur tigers
On the Amur in Khabarovsk
Koryaksky volcano in Kamchatka
Vladivostok in the early 1900s