Okhotsk
Okhotsk (Russian: Ох'отск, o-HO-tsk) is a village in the Russian Far East centered around silver mining and fishing. The village has a population of approximately 4,500 people. It was the first settlement in the Russian Far East.
- For other places with the same name, see Okhotsk (disambiguation).
Understand
Get in
There are no road leading to Okhotsk. Okhotsk Airport (Аэропорт Охотск; OHO IATA) fields 3.5 hour flights from Khabarovsk with Khabarovsk Airlines (+7 42135 30 610) and occasionally Nikolaevsk-on-Amur. It also offers helicopter flights to surrounding settlements.
Get around
See
Do
Fishing and hunting tours are organized in the summer in Khabarovsk and cost about $2000 for two weeks.
Buy
Marekanit is a natural glass stone that is usually black with white spots and is created as a result of fast cooling magma. The only place on earth it can be found is in Okhotsk mines.
Eat
Drink
Sleep
- Hotel Okhotsk, 22, Lunacharskogo st., ☎ +7 924 117 64 46. This hotel is a set of rooms in an apartment house. $60.