Yuzhny () is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Chaunsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, situated southeast of Chaunskaya Bay, about south of Pevek, the administrative center of the district. Though the settlement is abandoned, the mining company "Chukotka" still works in the area.Региональный портал Дальний Восток, Dalny Vostok, Regional Portal, 12 May 2012 As of 2011 Yuzhny was included in the list of settlements to be liquidated.Law #33, Article 14.2

History Yuzhny was the first of the gold mines to be opened in Chukotka in 1950,Dead-cities.ru. Yuzhny by a group of geologists.Чемоданов Н.И. В двух шагах от Северного полюса. Записки геолога. N.I. Chemodanov, Two Steps from the Pole: Notes from a Geologist. Magadan Publishing House, 1968. 64 с. Having started out as a normal business employing prospectors, the mines became part of Chaunchukotlag, the local division of the gulag system.

The mines were declared unprofitable and that there was no possibility of developing any other form of economy in 1999 and the settlement was closed along with a number of others in Chukotka.Постановление Правительства РФ от 2 февраля 1998 г. N 128 О мерах социальной защиты населения ликвидируемых поселков золотодобытчиков в Чукотском автономном округe (Russian Federation Government resolution dated February 2, 1998 No. 128 on measures of social protection of the population of liquidating estates gold miners in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug "Russian Federation Government resolution dated February 2, 1998 No. 128 on measures of social protection of the population of liquidating estates gold miners in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug). The Russian government guaranteed funds to transport non-working pensioners and the unemployed in liquidated settlements including Yuzhny from Chukotka to other parts of Russia. The Ministry of railways was obliged to lease containers for the transportation of the migrants' goods to the Chukotkan administration and ensure that they were delivered to the various settlements.

See also List of inhabited localities in Chaunsky District

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