Pychgynmygytgyn ( or Пичхинмыитхын; ) is a freshwater lake in Providensky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russian Federation.Google Earth It has an area of .
There are no permanent settlements on the shores of the lake. The nearest inhabited place is Nutepelmen, located to the NNE.
The name of the lake in Chukot means "a lake near a rock where food was obtained."Leontiev V.V. & Novikova K.A. Toponymic Dictionary of the North-East of the USSR / scientific. ed. G. A. Menovschikov; FEB AN USSR . North-East complex. Research institutes. Lab archeology, history and ethnography. - Magadan: Magad. Prince Publishing House, 1989.
Geography Pychgynmygytgyn is located in the Chukotka Peninsula, southwest of Kolyuchin Bay. It is a V-shaped lake that lies in a wide intermontane basin of the central part of the Chukotka Mountains.1,000,000 scale Operational Navigation Chart; Sheet C-8
River Eetikit flows into the western lakeshore and the long Kevyanvyveem flows out of Pychgynmygytgyn from the south.
The lake freezes in the first half of September and stays under ice until June.Chukotka Autonomous Okrug - Water of Russia
Flora and fauna Pychgynmygytgyn is surrounded by tundra. Arctic char is common in the lake. The Taranets char is also found in its waters.Occurrence of sympatric charr groups, Salvelinus, Salmonidae, in the lakes of Kamchatka: a legacy of the last glaciations: lacustrine Salvelinus
See also List of lakes of Russia
References
External links Пычки-Мычки путешествие Рыбалка на морях, реках и озерах Чукотки. (Fishing)