Inchoun

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title: "Inchoun" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["rural-localities-in-chukotka-autonomous-okrug", "chukchi-sea"] topic_path: "general/rural-localities-in-chukotka-autonomous-okrug" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchoun" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
en_name	Inchoun
ru_name	Инчоун
other_name	И’нчувин
other_lang	Chukchi
map_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map	Russia
pushpin_relief	yes
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Russia
coordinates
federal_subject	Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
federal_subject_ref
adm_district_jur	Chukotsky District
inhabloc_cat	Rural locality
inhabloc_cat_ref
inhabloc_type	Selo
inhabloc_type_ref
mun_district_jur	Chukotsky Municipal District
mun_district_jur_ref
rural_settlement_jur	Inchoun Rural Settlement
rural_settlement_jur_ref
mun_admctr_of	Inchoun Rural Settlement
mun_admctr_of_ref
pop_2010census	387
pop_2010census_ref
pop_latest	365
pop_latest_date	January 2018
pop_latest_ref
postal_codes	689313
dialing_codes	42736
dialing_codes_ref
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History

Pre-history

The name of the village comes from the Chukchi word I'nchuvin, meaning "a cut-off nose tip". This strange appellation is derived from a nearby cliff with a large rock at its base that is said to look like a nose cut from a face. There is a Chukchi dancing troupe in the village called Vyrykvyn.

Excavations carried out by the Museum of Chukotka Heritage Centre and the State Museum of Northern Art at the Palpeygak () site (named after a nearby eponymous creek) revealed finds indicating that the area had been inhabited for the last 3000 years

Twentieth century

In the 1950s, construction began on wooden houses in the village and by 1957, the first nine families moved out of their Yaranga and into these new houses.

Demographics

The population of the village as of 2009 was 398 an increase on the estimate in 2008 of 365, which itself was down from the figure given in March 2003 of 373 (of which 353 were indigenous peoples). The official census results indicate a slight reduction on the 2009 estimate to 387, of whom 185 were male and 202 female.

Transport

Inchoun is 150 miles from the district centre Lavrentiya and is not connected to any other part of the world by permanent road. However, there is a small network of roads within the settlement including:

• Улица Ачиргина (Ulitsa Achyrgyna)
• Улица Коммунистическая (Ulitsa Kommunisticheskaya, lit. Communist Street)
• Улица Морзверобоев (Ulitsa Morzveroboyev, li. Walrus-hunting Brigade Street)
• Улица Тенетегина (Ulitsa Tenetegina)
• Улица Центральная (Ulitsa Tsentralnaya, lit. Central Street)
• Улица Шипина (Ulitsa Shipina)
• Улица Школьная (Ulitsa Shkolnaya, lit. School Street)

Climate

Inchoun has a Tundra climate (ET) because the warmest month has an average temperature between 0 °C and 10 °C.

|width=auto |metric first=yes |single line=yes |location=Inchoun |Jan record high C=4.7 |Feb record high C=5.5 |Mar record high C=3.9 |Apr record high C=6.4 |May record high C=10.5 |Jun record high C=18.4 |Jul record high C=22.7 |Aug record high C=22 |Sep record high C=16.3 |Oct record high C=12 |Nov record high C=8.7 |Dec record high C=10 |year record high C=22.7 |Jan high C=-17.9 |Feb high C=-16.7 |Mar high C=-15.8 |Apr high C=-9.1 |May high C=-0.7 |Jun high C=5.6 |Jul high C=10 |Aug high C=9.2 |Sep high C=5.4 |Oct high C=0.5 |Nov high C=-4.7 |Dec high C=-13.9 |year high C=-4 |Jan low C=-23.9 |Feb low C=-22.8 |Mar low C=-22.3 |Apr low C=-15.2 |May low C=-4.6 |Jun low C=1 |Jul low C=4.8 |Aug low C=4.8 |Sep low C=2.2 |Oct low C=-3 |Nov low C=-9.8 |Dec low C=-19 |year low C=-9 |Jan record low C=-44.1 |Feb record low C=-41.5 |Mar record low C=-41.4 |Apr record low C=-31.1 |May record low C=-24.5 |Jun record low C=-5.6 |Jul record low C=-4.7 |Aug record low C=-2.7 |Sep record low C=-6.1 |Oct record low C=-19.9 |Nov record low C=-33.6 |Dec record low C=-41.2 |year record low C=-44.1 |Jan rain mm=19 |Feb rain mm=20 |Mar rain mm=13.8 |Apr rain mm=18.1 |May rain mm=18.8 |Jun rain mm=15.1 |Jul rain mm=40.4 |Aug rain mm=46.2 |Sep rain mm=35.9 |Oct rain mm=45.4 |Nov rain mm=28.8 |Dec rain mm=18.4 |year rain mm=319.9 |Jan snow days=14 |Feb snow days=12 |Mar snow days=11 |Apr snow days=15 |May snow days=13 |Jun snow days=3 |Jul snow days=0 |Aug snow days=0 |Sep snow days=4 |Oct snow days=17 |Nov snow days=20 |Dec snow days=15 |year snow days=124 |source 1=

Photo gallery

File:Inchoun 1 2013-08-02.jpg| Inchoun Village (Chukchi Sea, Russia; 66°17’56‘‘N, 170°17‘6‘‘W) File:Inchoun 2 2013-08-02.jpg|Inchoun Village, schoolhouse File:Inchoun 3 2013-08-02.jpg|Inchoun Village File:Inchoun 4 2013-08-02.jpg|Inchoun Village

References

Notes

Sources

• Strogoff, M, Brochet, P-C and Auzias, D. Petit Futé: Chukotka, "Avant-Garde" Publishing House, 2006.

References

1. Law #33-OZ, Article 13.2 {{in lang. ru
2. Law #47-OZ, Article 2 {{in lang. ru
3. {{ru-pop-ref. 2010Census
4. The results of the 2010 Census are given for Inchoun Rural Settlement, a municipal formation of Chukotsky Municipal District. According to Law #148-OZ, Inchoun is the only inhabited locality on the territory of Inchoun Rural Settlement.
5. Office of the [[Russian Federal State Statistics Service. Federal State Statistics Service]] for Khabarovsk Krai, Magadan Oblast, Jewish Autonomous Oblast and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. [http://habstat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/habstat/resources/62f1a600408e9886a05deb4d45abe5e4/%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F+%D0%A7%D1%83%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE+%D0%B0%D0%B2%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE+%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B0+%D0%BF%D0%BE+%D0%BC%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%BC+%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F%D0%BC+%D0%BD%D0%B0+1+%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%8F+2018+%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%B0.doc Численность населения Чукотского автономного округа по муниципальным образованиям на 1 января 2018 года] {{Webarchive. link. (2019-08-31 {{in lang). ru
6. [http://www.minjustmag.ru/chu.html Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation] {{webarchive. link. (2012-02-08 Chukotsky District {{in lang). ru
7. link. (2012-03-29 , Beringia Nature Park Website. Retrieved 12 April 2012)
8. Strogoff, p.120
9. [http://chukotraion.ru/places/index.html Муниципальное образование сельское поселение Инчоун] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-07-25 Municipal Formation of the Rural Settlement of Inchoun - Official Website of Chukotsky District])
10. Red Cross of Chukotka. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071007093855/http://redcross-chukotka.ru/English/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=16 Chukotsky District] (Archived)
11. [http://www.pochtovik.su/rosindex/87/87007000002.htm Pochtovik Mail Delivery Service]{{Dead link. (January 2020). ru
12. McKnightand Hess, pp.235-7
13. "Weather Averages for Inchoun from meoweather.com". meoweather.com.

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