Ilirney
Ilirney (Russian: Илирней; Chukchi: Иԓирӈэй, lit. mountain island[10]) is a rural locality (a selo) in Bilibinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located southeast of Bilibino, on the banks of the Maly Anyuy River. The population of the village as of 2012 is 281, of which 247[11] are native Chukchi,[12] a slight reduction on the most recent census data: 287 (2010 Census);[3] [4] Municipally, Ilirney is subordinated to Bilibinsky Municipal District and is incorporated as Ilirney Rural Settlement.[6]
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 Winter view of Ilirney | |
Location of Ilirney 
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  Ilirney Location of Ilirney  Ilirney Ilirney (Chukotka Autonomous Okrug) | |
| Coordinates: 67°15′00″N 167°57′03″E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Chukotka Autonomous Okrug[1] |
| Administrative district | Bilibinsky District[1] |
| Founded | 1940[2] |
| Area | |
| • Total | 2.15 km2 (0.83 sq mi) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 287 |
| • Estimate (January 2018)[5] | 252 |
| • Density | 130/km2 (350/sq mi) |
| • Municipal district | Bilibinsky Municipal District[6] |
| • Rural settlement | Ilirney Rural Settlement[6] |
| • Capital of | Ilirney Rural Settlement[6] |
| Time zone | UTC+12 (MSK+9  |
| Postal code(s)[8] | 689480 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 42738[9] |
| OKTMO ID | 77609415101 |
Geography
Ilirney is situated 168 km from the district center Bilibino and 510 km from Anadyr.[2] At the site of the village, the Maly Anyuy River is joined by the Nutsekyn tributary,[13] from the Chukchi word, Nutech'yn, meaning "white fat", since there is a band of white clay that looks like fat and was occasionally consumed by the local inhabitants in times of famine.[11] Lake Ilirney is found at the feet of Ilirney Range, about 20 km (12 mi) northeast of the village. Archeologists discovered neolithic camps on the shore of the lake[13] and about 46 km (29 mi) further upstream is Lake Tytyl where archeologists have also discovered neolithic encampments and where the inhabitants of the village have a permanent fishing co-operative on the shores.[13]
History
In 1945, a weather station was built on the shores of the Lower Ilirney lake, and not long after that a state farm specialising in reindeer herding was established, around which a settlement grew up. However, in 1954, the village was severely flooded and a decision was made to move the village 7 km upriver to prevent this happening again. In the late 1950s there was a substantial expansion of the village, following the discovery of gold in the area and the subsequent mining developments to extract it. Additionally, the farm's name was changed to 40 Years of October (Russian: 40 лет Октября), and it became substantially more profitable as requirements from the expanding mining workforce increased demand significantly.[14]
Demographics
The population of the village as of January 2012 is 281[2] a reduction of 20 against the 2010 estimate of 301 (of which 247 were indigenous people),[11] though this is higher than the official 2010 census result which recorded a population of 287, of whom 152 were male and 135 female.[4] The 2010 estimate is the same as that made in 2005 as part of the environmental impact study by the Kupol gold project, which recorded a population of 233.[15] In 2005 and 2012 the village was demographically organised thus:
| Indigenous People | Number in Village in 2005 | Percentage of Population in 2005 | Number in Village in 2012 | Percentage of Population in 2012 | Movement since 2005 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chukchi |
217 |
72% |
213 |
76% |
-4 |
| Russians and other nationalities |
68 |
23% |
55 |
20% |
-13 |
| Evens |
10 |
3% |
6 |
2% |
-4 |
| Koryaks |
5 |
2% |
5 |
2% |
0 |
| Yukaghir |
1 |
<1% |
2 |
1% |
+1 |
| Total |
301 |
100% |
281 |
100% |
-20 |
Source: 2005 Data:[15]
Soucre: 2012 Data:[2]
The head of the rural settlement is Vladimir Kumlyu.[2]
Economy and culture
The main occupation of the inhabitants is reindeer herding and fishing and there is a central farm called "poplar" (Russian: Тополёвое) The village has a primary school, a kindergarten, a medical clinic, post office, communications center, a hotel with 20 beds, a cultural center, library, shop and bakery.
In the summer of 2009 on a small hill at the entrance to the village a large Orthodox cross was built and consecrated.[16] An Orthodox chapel is also planned to be constructed.[17]
The village hosts the Kilvey festival (meaning "festival of the first calf"[13]) during the calving season, when the reindeer are giving birth to their young. Visitors erect yaranga and the traditional Chukchi tambourine, the Yarar is played while the women prepare traditional food.[13] A bonfire is lit, sacrifices are made and a variety of sporting competitions involving jumping, throwing and wrestling take place.[13] The festival ends with a large communal feast.[13]
Transport
Illirney is not yet connected to any other settlement by permanent road[18], but a new road, the Anadyr Highway, is planned west to Omsukchan and south east to Anadyr.
There is a small series of roads within the settlement including:[19]
- Улица Лесная (Ulitsa Lesnaya, lit. Forest Street)
- Улица Набережная (Ulitsa Naberezhnaya, lit. Quay Street)
- Улица Центральная (Ulitsa Tsentralnaya, lit. Central Street)
- Улица Школьная (Ulitsa Shkolnaya, lit. School Street)
Climate
With a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc), Ilirney endures bitterly cold weather for much of the year, with temperatures almost never rising above freezing between October and April, and sometimes plummeting below −50 °C or −58 °F in January and February, although the freakish month of January 1950 averaged 19.6 °C (35.3 °F) above the long-term normal[20] owing to a huge block in the Bering Sea that more famously produced a huge cold wave in western Canada and Washington state.[21] Even the short summer period between June and August is cool with temperatures rarely rising above +20 °C (68 °F).
| Climate data for Ilirney | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 2.4 (36.3) |
1.4 (34.5) |
3.8 (38.8) |
8.5 (47.3) |
21.1 (70.0) |
30.7 (87.3) |
34.1 (93.4) |
31.1 (88.0) |
28.4 (83.1) |
13.2 (55.8) |
2.9 (37.2) |
4.1 (39.4) |
34.1 (93.4) |
| Average high °C (°F) | −31.0 (−23.8) |
−27.6 (−17.7) |
−19.5 (−3.1) |
−9.4 (15.1) |
3.1 (37.6) |
15.9 (60.6) |
19.1 (66.4) |
14.4 (57.9) |
5.9 (42.6) |
−8.5 (16.7) |
−21.7 (−7.1) |
−29.2 (−20.6) |
−7.4 (18.7) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −35.6 (−32.1) |
−33.2 (−27.8) |
−26.4 (−15.5) |
−16.8 (1.8) |
−1.7 (28.9) |
10.3 (50.5) |
13.2 (55.8) |
9.0 (48.2) |
1.3 (34.3) |
−12.7 (9.1) |
−26.3 (−15.3) |
−33.7 (−28.7) |
−12.7 (9.1) |
| Average low °C (°F) | −40.2 (−40.4) |
−38.6 (−37.5) |
−33.2 (−27.8) |
−24.8 (−12.6) |
−7.3 (18.9) |
4.2 (39.6) |
6.8 (44.2) |
3.3 (37.9) |
−3.1 (26.4) |
−17.3 (0.9) |
−31.0 (−23.8) |
−38.2 (−36.8) |
−18.3 (−0.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −64.4 (−83.9) |
−62.0 (−79.6) |
−55.5 (−67.9) |
−46.2 (−51.2) |
−35.8 (−32.4) |
−8.8 (16.2) |
−6.0 (21.2) |
−12.0 (10.4) |
−27.6 (−17.7) |
−41.3 (−42.3) |
−55 (−67) |
−60.9 (−77.6) |
−64.4 (−83.9) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 10 (0.4) |
10 (0.4) |
9 (0.4) |
7 (0.3) |
7 (0.3) |
18 (0.7) |
30 (1.2) |
30 (1.2) |
16 (0.6) |
16 (0.6) |
17 (0.7) |
14 (0.6) |
184 (7.4) |
| Average precipitation days (≥ 0.1 mm) | 12.0 | 11.0 | 11.2 | 8.4 | 7.9 | 9.4 | 10.8 | 11.0 | 11.9 | 16.3 | 14.2 | 13.3 | 137.4 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 70.9 | 69.9 | 67.4 | 64.3 | 62.7 | 59.8 | 65.2 | 74.7 | 78.8 | 82.7 | 80.3 | 73.6 | 70.9 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 3.1 | 70.0 | 173.6 | 261.0 | 266.6 | 270.0 | 213.9 | 167.4 | 120.0 | 49.6 | 15.0 | 0.0 | 1,610.2 |
| Source 1: Temperature and precipitation data only[22] | |||||||||||||
| Source 2: climatebase.ru[23] | |||||||||||||
References
Notes
- Law #33-OZ, Article 13.2
- Городские и сельские поселения Urban and Rural Settlements - Official Bilibinsky District website (in Russian)
- Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
- The results of the 2010 Census are given for Ilirney Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Bilibinsky Municipal District. According to Law #148-OZ, Ilirney is the only inhabited locality on the territory of Ilirney Rural Settlement.
- Office of the Federal State Statistics Service for Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Численность населения Чукотского автономного округа по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года Archived 2019-08-31 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
- Law #43-OZ, Article 3
- "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
- Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation Archived 2012-02-08 at the Wayback Machine Bilibinsky Municipal District (in Russian)
- V.V. Leontev and K.A. Novikova, Топонимический словарь северо-востока СССР (Toponymic Dictionary of the Northeastern USSR) (1989) Magadan. p.148
- Illirney Chukotka Electoral Commission website
- Dallman, Map 3.6
- Strogoff, p.104
- МБОУ «Начальная школа — детский сад с. Илирней» Archived 2013-04-17 at Archive.today "Primary school - kindergarten. Illirny"
- Bema Gold Corporation, p.89
- Галина Оброткина Видимый символ веры Galina Obrotkina, "A Visible Symbol of Faith" — Крайний Север (Krayny Sever) , 22 March 2010.
- Проект «Епархия», Project "Diocese", epharia.ru, 30 December 2011
- Map Q57-58 Archived 2013-05-02 at the Wayback Machine at Vlasenko.net
- Illirney - Bilibinsky District at Pochtovik Mail Delivery Company
- http://www.pogodaiklimat.ru/monitor.php?id=25248&month=1&year=1950
- Klein, William H.; ‘The Weather and Circulation of January 1950’; Monthly Weather Review, 78 (1950); pp. 13-14
- http://www.pogodaiklimat.ru/climate/25248.htm
- "Ilirney, Russia". Climatebase.ru. Retrieved 21 January 2013.
Sources
- Bema Gold Corporation, Environmental Impact Assessment, Kupol Gold Project, Far East Russia June 2005.
- W. K. Dallmann. Indigenous Peoples of the north of the Russian Federation, Map 3.6, Chukotskiy Avtonomyy Okrug. 1997.
- Дума Чукотского автономного округа. Закон №33-ОЗ от 30 июня 1998 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Чукотского автономного округа», в ред. Закона №55-ОЗ от 9 июня 2012 г. «О внесении изменений в Закон Чукотского автономного округа "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Чукотского автономного округа"». Вступил в силу по истечении десяти дней со дня его официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Ведомости", №7 (28), 14 мая 1999 г. (Duma of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Law #33-OZ of June 30, 1998 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, as amended by the Law #55-OZ of June 9, 2012 On Amending the Law of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug". Effective as of after ten days from the day of the official publication.). (in Russian)
- Дума Чукотского автономного округа. Закон №43-ОЗ от 29 ноября 2004 г. «О статусе, границах и административных центрах муниципальных образований на территории Билибинского района Чукотского автономного округа», в ред. Закона №88-ОЗ от 20 октября 2010 г «О преобразовании путём объединения поселений на территории Билибинского муниципального района и внесении изменений в Закон Чукотского автономного округа "О статусе, границах и административных центрах муниципальных образований на территории Билибинского района Чукотского автономного округа"». Вступил в силу через десять дней со дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Ведомости", №31/1 (178/1), 10 декабря 2004 г. (Duma of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Law #43-OZ of November 29, 2004 On the Status, Borders, and Administrative Centers of the Municipal Formations on the Territory of Bilibinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, as amended by the Law #88-OZ of October 20, 2010 On the Transformation (Merger) of the Settlements on the Territory of Bilibinsky Municipal District and Amending the Law of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug "On the Status, Borders, and Administrative Centers of the Municipal Formations on the Territory of Bilibinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug". Effective as of the day ten days after the official publication date.). (in Russian)
- M Strogoff, P-C Brochet, and D. Auzias Petit Futé: Chukotka (2006). "Avant-Garde" Publishing House.
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