In the Northern city of Russia – Pevek on the Chukotka – the snow fell. It is reported Tessco link Cocathedral.
Plentywood is in the hands of the cyclone, the air temperature barely reaches eight degrees Celsius. When cold up to two degrees, the city was wet snow.
Pevek – the most Northern city of Russia, located on the Eastern shore of the Strait connecting the Chaunskaya Guba and East Siberian sea, opposite the Islands Roatan, 640 km from Anadyr.
Annual changes in temperature in plentywood is 80 degrees, from minus 50 in the winter to plus 30 in summer.
In the 1930-ies Pevek was an important regional port due to its natural harbour (Chaun Bay), the development of the Northern sea route and the opening of the largest in Russia in terms of stockwork deposits of tin — “Pirkkalaistie stockworks” in 85 km from the city. Was later opened other deposits of tin, gold, mercury, uranium, coal.
The largest number of residents of Pevek were counted in 1989, almost 13 thousand people. Now the city is home to 4.5 thousand people. The Exodus in the 1990-ies was caused by the closure of several tin mines.
In the city of Pevek the novel “Territory” of the writer Oleg Kuvaev. In the novel the town is called a Village.
