Providensky District
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Providensky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the autonomous okrug, in the southern half of t
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Scene from Yanrakynnot
Aerial view of the Penkigney Bay, near to several ancient sites in Providensky District
Ceremonial whale bones, Whale Bone Alley, Yttygran Island.
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
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Chukotka, officially the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is the easternmost federal subject of Russia. It is an autonomous okrug situated in the Russian Far East. It shares a border with the Sakha Republic
Providensky District
…райо́н; Chukchi: Урэлӄуйым район, Urèlḳujym rajon; Yupik: Уӷрилӄуйым район) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located in the northeast of the autonomous okrug, in the southern half of the Chukchi Peninsula with a northwest extension reaching…
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.