Enurmino is a rural locality (a selo) in Chukotsky District

Chukotsky District

Chukotsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the six in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is the easternmost district of the autonomous okrug and the closest part of Russia to the United States. It borders with the Chukchi Sea in the north, the Bering Sea in the...

 of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Chukotka Autonomous Okrug , or Chukotka , is a federal subject of Russia located in the Russian Far East.Chukotka has a population of 53,824 according to the 2002 Census, and a surface area of . The principal town and the administrative center is Anadyr...

, 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...

. It is located on the Chukchi Sea

Chukchi Sea

Chukchi Sea is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean. It is bounded on the west by the De Long Strait, off Wrangel Island, and in the east by Point Barrow, Alaska, beyond which lies the Beaufort Sea. The Bering Strait forms its southernmost limit and connects it to the Bering Sea and the Pacific...

 near Cape Serdtse-Kamen

Cape Serdtse-Kamen

Cape Serdtse-Kamen is a headland on the northeastern coast of Chukotka, Russian Federation. It is about 140 Km west of Cape Dezhnev, 120 Km east of Kolyuchinskaya Bay and about 30 km to the east of the Neskynpil'gyn Lagoon...

. The population of the village as of March 2003 was 297, of which 296 were indigenous peoples. Municipally Enurmino is subordinated to Chukotsky Municipal District and incorporated as Enurmino Rural Settlement.

The name of the village comes from the Chukchi

Chukchi language

The Chukchi language is a Palaeosiberian language spoken by Chukchi people in the easternmost extremity of Siberia, mainly in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug...

 I'nnurmin, meaning "a place behind the hills", as the village is located in a valley surrounded by hills.

Culture

The village has a food store, an elementary school, a daycare center and a post-office. The main activities of the villagers are Marine mammal harvest, hunting and fishing.

In 2008, a documentary was made on the lives of the inhabitants of Enurmino by Anadyr

Anadyr (town)

Anadyr is a port town and the administrative centre of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, the extreme north-eastern region of Russia. It is at the mouth of the Anadyr River, on the tip of the southern promontory that sticks out into Anadyrskiy Liman...

-born director, Alexey Vakhrushev, entitled Welcome to Enurmino!, which shows the villagers trying to preserve their traditional ways of life while making the most of the limited modern amenities available to them.