Nizhnekolymsk

Nizhnekolymsk () is a rural locality (a selo) in Pokhodsky Rural Okrug of Nizhnekolymsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located within the Arctic Circle near the East Siberian Sea on the left bank of the Kolyma River near its confluence with the Anyuy, from Chersky, the administrative center of the district, and from Pokhodsk, the administrative center of the rural okrug.Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic Its population as of the 2010 Census was 6,Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census. Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам (Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities) of whom 4 were male and 2 female, up from 0 recorded during the 2002 Census.Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic

History It was founded as a fort on the Kolyma River in 1644.Е. П. Сашенков (Ye. P. Sashenkov). На почтовых трактах Севера. (К истории почты Якутии). (On the Postal Roads of the North. (About the History of Yakutia's Postal Service).) The town was the starting point for the polar expedition of Ferdinand von Wrangel and Pyotr Anjou in 1820.Lisa von Engelhardt: Ferdinand von Wrangel und seine Reise längs der Nordküste von Sibirien und auf dem Eismeere, Leipzig 1885, p. 14. On May 20, 1931, Nizhnekolymsk became the administrative center of Nizhnekolymsky District, but in 1942, due to constant flooding, the administrative center was transferred to Nizhniye Kresty. Nizhekolymsk had mostly been abandoned by 1968, although a small number of people continued to reside there.

Notable people Alexander Penn (1906–1972), Israeli poet, born in Nizhnekolymsk

In fiction

Red Pawn, a 1932 screen play by Ayn Rand, takes place in the vicinity of Nizhnekolymsk, during the early years of the Soviet Union.

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