Chersky (settlement)
Encyclopedia
Chersky is an urban locality (a settlement
) and the administrative center of Nizhnekolymsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia
, located on the Kolyma River
1920 kilometres (1,193 mi) east of Yakutsk
. Population:
It is named after Jan Czerski
, a Polish geographer who organized several expeditions in the surrounding area in the 1880s. It is served by Chersky Airport
. It is a locale for much of the action in the spy novel Kolymsky Heights
.
Urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...
) and the administrative center of Nizhnekolymsky District of the Sakha Republic, Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
, located on the Kolyma River
Kolyma River
The Kolyma River is a river in northeastern Siberia, whose basin covers parts of the Sakha Republic, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, and Magadan Oblast of Russia. Itrises in the mountains north of Okhotsk and Magadan, in the area of and...
1920 kilometres (1,193 mi) east of Yakutsk
Yakutsk
With a subarctic climate , Yakutsk is the coldest city, though not the coldest inhabited place, on Earth. Average monthly temperatures range from in July to in January. The coldest temperatures ever recorded on the planet outside Antarctica occurred in the basin of the Yana River to the northeast...
. Population:
It is named after Jan Czerski
Jan Czerski
Jan Stanisław Franciszek Czerski was a Polish paleontologist , geologist, geographer and explorer of Siberia. He was exiled to Transbaikalia for participation in the January Uprising of 1863...
, a Polish geographer who organized several expeditions in the surrounding area in the 1880s. It is served by Chersky Airport
Chersky Airport
Chersky Airport is a small airport in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located south of the settlement of Chersky. It services small transport aircraft....
. It is a locale for much of the action in the spy novel Kolymsky Heights
Kolymsky Heights
-Plot summary:A coded message is smuggled out of Russia, a plea for help from a supersecret laboratory deep in the frozen wastes of Siberia. The note is addressed to Johnny Porter, a Canadian Indian of the Gitxsan tribe with a genius for languages and disguises, and reluctantly he is forced to...
.