Debin
title: "Debin" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["urban-type-settlements-in-magadan-oblast", "kolyma-basin"] topic_path: "general/urban-type-settlements-in-magadan-oblast" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debin" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::data[format=table title="Infobox Russian urban-type settlement"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| en_name | Debin |
| ru_name | Дебин |
| image_skyline | Debin Siberia.jpg |
| image_caption | Debin through the morning mist over the Kolyma River |
| coordinates | |
| map_label_position | right |
| federal_subject | Magadan Oblast |
| adm_district_jur | Yagodninsky District |
| inhabloc_cat | Urban-type settlement |
| pop_2010census | 721 |
| pop_2010census_ref | |
| mapframe | yes |
| mapframe-zoom | 12 |
| mapframe-wikidata | yes |
| mapframe-marker | village |
| :: |
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Debin (Де́бин) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Yagodninsky District of Magadan Oblast, Russia. Population:
Geography
40 km upstream is Sinegorye and the Kolyma dam.
History
Debin was founded in 1935 with the creation of a ferry point over the Kolyma, initially under the name Pereprava. In 1937 it was renamed for the Debin River, which joins the Kolyma a few kilometers upstream from the settlement. During the era of the Gulag network, it was the base for one of the larger prison camps administered by Dalstroy in the Kolyma region, centred on using forced labour for gold mining.
From 1946 to 1953, the central hospital for the Northeast camps (Sevvostlag) was located in Debin. In 1990, stakes with numbers of the graves of those who died in the hospital survived. In 1991 a memorial “Sign of Sorrow” was erected.
Infrastructure
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Kolyma-bridge.jpg" caption="Old bridge over the Kolyma before its dismantling in Debin."] ::
Debin is located on the Kolyma Highway, at the point where it crosses the Kolyma River. From here, roads also lead to Sinegorye and to other smaller localities such as Taskan, Elgen and Verkhny At-Uryakh.
References
References
- {{ru-pop-ref. 2010Census
- https://en.mapofmemory.org/49-13
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