A new location for the hiking trail has been chosen in the polar village of Khatanga, online publication Taimyr Telegraph reported on February 20.
“The village of Khatanga itself is clean and, despite the apparent external harshness, hospitable. You can visit it in half an hour, during the walk you will be able to see the local works of art: a majestic mammoth, a musk ox hidden in the bushes, a reindeer herder who throws a maut at the antlers of the deer, etc. On the bank of the river of the same name is the administrative building of the seaport. From here, locals and visitors can observe the different colors of the sunset.”– this is the description of Khatanga on the Norilsk Development Agency website.
Currently, Cape Chelyuskin and the Kotui River can be reached by helicopter from Khatanga.
Recall that Khatanga is a village in the Taimyr Dolgano-Nenets district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the center of the Khatanga rural settlement. Located on the banks of the Khatanga River, one of the northernmost settlements in Russia. Population: 2645 people.
In 1928, the Khatanga region was annexed to the Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, but two years later the region was reassigned to the Taimyr National District.
In the subsoil of the Khatanga region and the adjacent territory there are mineral deposits of ferrous and non-ferrous metals, similar to the Norilsk deposit, apatites, oil, gas, salt, coal and much more. However, after calculating the cost of transporting oil, it was decided that oil from Western Siberia would be cheaper.
Khatanga is located almost at the 72nd parallel, in the subarctic zone. In July the average temperature is about 12.7 °C, in January the average is -30.9 °C.
The polar night at the latitude of Khatanga lasts from November 17 to January 25, the polar day – from May 10 to August 4.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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