Vesenny is an urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

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 south west of Bilibino

Bilibino

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 in Bilibinsky District

Bilibinsky District

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 (Raion

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), Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

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 and part of the Far Eastern

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 Federal District

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 of Russia

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. Population as of 2005: 4.

Soviet period

The village was founded in spring 1965, hence its name, although local history records that the reason the settlement was so called was because spring was always said to come earlier to this part of Chukotka than any other part of the Okrug. Twenty years after the foundation of the settlement, it boasted a health center and a clinic, sauna, laundry service, savings bank, two hotels, a kindergarten and 205 children enrolled in secondary school.

Post-Soviet period

The settlement was abandoned when the extraction of gold was no longer economically viable. As of 2008 is in the process of being officially liquidated, despite the fact that a handful of people continued to reside in the settlement according to an environmental impact report for the Kupol Gold Project.

External links

• Photo gallery of Vesenny