Administrative and municipal status

Anadyr is the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Anadyrsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with the selo Tavayvaam, incorporated separately as the town of okrug significance of Anadyr—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

Population

{| class="wikitable"

! 1926 || 1939 || 1959 || 1970 || 1979 || 1989 || 2002 || 2010 || 2021

|-

| 224 || 3,344 || 5,859 || 7,703 || 12,241 || 17,094 || 11,038 || 13,045 || 13,202

|}

Transportation

thumb|Satellite view of Ugolny Airport

Anadyr is an important sea port on the Bering Sea and is connected to almost all major Russian Far Eastern seaports. Anadyr's Ugolny Airport serves major and minor cities in the Russian Far East with connections to Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, and Moscow, while Bering Air provides charter flights to Nome, Alaska in the United States. The airport is on the other side of the Anadyrsky Liman, and from January to May, transportation from the airport to Anadyr is by ice road. but during spring and autumn when the river ice is melting and full of drifting ice floes, the only means of transportation to the airport is via helicopter. Construction of the Anadyr Highway was started in 2012, to link the town to Magadan, a distance of .

Notable people

  • Roman Abramovich, oil oligarch, former owner of Chelsea FC and the former Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
  • Diomid Dzyuban, former bishop of Anadyr
  • Marina Demeshchenko, indie-pop singer

Twin towns

Anadyr is twinned with:

  • Bethel, Alaska, United States

References

Notes

Sources

  • T. Armstrong. Russian Settlement in the North (1965) Cambridge University Press.
  • Н. Н. Диков (N. N. Dikov). "История Чукотки с древнейших времен до наших дней" (The History of Chukotka from Ancient Times to the Present Day) (1989) Moscow
  • P. A. Gray. The Predicament of Chukotka's Indigenous People: Post-Soviet Activism in the Russian Far North (2005) Cambridge University Press
  • Н. А. Жикарев (N. A. Zhikarev). "Очерки Истории Северо-Восточной РСФСР" (Sketches of the history of Northeast RSFSR) (1961) Magadan
  • А. И. Крусданов (A. I. Krusdanov). "Советы на северо-востоке СССР (1962–1982): Сборник документов и материалов, часть 3" (The Soviets of the Northeast USSR (1962–1982): Collection of Documents and Materials, Part 3) (1986) Magadan
  • Official website of Anadyr
  • Directory of organizations in Anadyr
  • Unofficial website of Anadyr
  • Flickr photos tagged Anadyr
  • Clipper Ship Razboinik which helped found Novo Mariinsk
  • Anadyr Photo Gallery
  • Panorama of Anadyr
  • More photos of Anadyr
  • Анадырская и Чукотская епархия Русской Православной Церкви