Providence Bay. Chukotka, photos, nature, history, description of Providence Bay in Chukotka. Provideniya Bay (Chukotka Autonomous Area, Russia)
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Hello dear friends. Today I am starting a new series of issues about the cities and towns of Chukotka. Next area on our website – Providensky. And, of course, the first one is the village of Providence. So…
Providensky district.
Provideniya is an urban-type settlement, the regional center of Providensky District. It is located in the southeastern part of the Chukotka Peninsula, on the coast
Bering Sea, in the bay of the same name. This geographical location. And now let's get down to the description of history, nature, etc.
First, the bay of providence was opened, in which the village is now located. It was in 1660 by the Russian expedition of Kurbat Ivanov. But it was not originally populated. Fishing and wintering of whaling and merchant ships were carried out here. It includes another bay called Emma's Bay. There is a very rocky and steep coast. Only at the beginning of the 20th century this small bay began to attract the attention of the state due to the development of the Northern sea route. A port appeared (two filling houses of the polar station) in 1934. From that time to the present day, the port has been a city-forming enterprise and the basis for the existence and development of the village, which we will talk about now. The settlement began to be built in 1937, and a year later the first house for workers was laid. seaport. Berths, port facilities, a bakery, a club were built ... 1946 - the official date of the foundation of the village. The settlement grew, and, taking into account the peculiarities of the terrain, stretched along the coast of the bay and even up the mountainside. And in 1957, Provideniya became an urban-type settlement and a district center as part of the Chukotka National District. Magadan region. The population grew exponentially, and in 1989 was five and a half people.
By the year 2000, it was planned to build a whole city with a population of 12,000 people, but, as we all understand, this did not have to be realized due to the situation in our country.
Construction stopped, at least not as fast as planned. And now about 2000 people live in the village.
Here, such is the fate of the workers' settlement of Providence. The village is slowly being revived, reconstructed, restored. This is a good fate, unlike many, many other towns and villages in Chukotka.
Let's take a look main reason the appearance of the village - the port. Initially, he supplied ships with coal that went to the Arctic. Now it serves for the implementation of cargo and passenger transportation from Anadyr, Lavrentiya, Novoye Chaplino Uelen and many other points of the Chukotka Peninsula. Vessels come here foreign tourists from Alaska. Here, coal is unloaded from the port of Beringovsky, lumber from Kamchatka, oil products and other piece (general) cargo from the ports of Primorye ...
Summer navigation lasts from early May to early January. In winter, ships are guided by icebreakers.
And what a beauty around! You just can't imagine. More precisely, the one who lived or lives now in the village imagines it perfectly. Moreover, thousands of photographs can be found on the Internet, representing the beauty of the local nature of the village of Provision.
I recommend that those who have not yet seen type in the search engine "Providence Bay photo", and you will be presented with one of the most beautiful places in Chukotka. And I, in turn, can only show a video on the topic: “Chukotka. Providence."
Victory Day in Providence 09 05 2017
Storm in Providence in Chukotka in 2016
POLAR BEARS, PROVISION BAY 2016 White Bears in Providence 2016
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Geography
The entrance to Provideniya Bay is limited by Cape Lysaya Golova in the east and Cape Lesovsky in the west. Cape Lysayaya Golova is located at a distance of 11 km west-north-west of Cape Chukotsky. The width of Provideniya Bay is about 8 km at the beginning. Length - 34 km (measured along the midline). The width of the bay in the part below Emma harbor is about 4 km, and above Emma harbor - about 2.5 km. In its lower part, the bay runs roughly to the northeast, then turning in its northern part (known as Head Harbor) turns north and is about 2 km wide. The steep banks and hills of the bay have an average height of about 600-800 meters. The bay has semi-diurnal tides up to 1 meter high. From May to October it is completely or partially ice-free. At the entrance to the bay, the depth is about 35 m (USCGS 1928). Max Depth- about 150 meters. IN Lately there is evidence of a decrease in depth at the entrance to 18-20 meters (USCS 2000).
Inside Provideniya Bay there are several smaller bays: Komsomolskaya Bay (Emma Harbour), Slavyanka Bay, Head Bay, Horseman and Cash Bays.
Komsomolskaya Bay (Emma Harbor) is located 14 km from the mouth of Provideniya Bay in its eastern part and has dimensions of 1.5 × 6 km with depths from 11 to 27 m. Bay of Providence". The entrance to the bay is limited by capes Puzin and Likhachev.
Slavyanka Bay is an anchorage behind the Plover spit, which is a natural breakwater. It is located 8 km from the mouth of Provideniya Bay. The tip of the Plover Spit is called Cape Gaydamak.
U.S. Coast Survey describes the entire upper part of the bay as Horseman's Bay. Asiatic Pilot in 1909 he mentions the bays of Vladimir and Kesh, separated by Cape Popov, and notes that these bays are shallow.
Local population
There was an Eskimo village on Plover Spit.
The US Coast Survey describes the village of Rirak at the base of the spit, and since 1928 describes the village of Uredlak on south coast Harbor Emma. During the Soviet era, the village located near the spit was damaged by landslides and the inhabitants were relocated to the port of Providence (Provideniya).
The Chukchi settlement of Nasskatulok near Plover Bay was reported in 1881 by Aurel Krause, but in 1898 it was no longer mentioned by Valdemar Bogoraz. There were other settlements along the coast. The Chukchi village of Avan lay to the east of the bay, between the sea and freshwater lake Istikhed (from the English "East Head" [ ] ; in English literature, the name "Lake Moore" is also found).
They were evacuated in 1941 to make way for coastal defense batteries. According to another source, in the 1950s they were still at the entrance to the bay.
Story
Discovered by the Russian expedition of Kurbat Ivanov in 1660. After that, for another 200 years, the bay remained nameless. In 1848-1849, the British ship Plover under the command of Captain Thomas Moore overwintered in the bay. Leaving Plymouth in January 1848, the ship cruised along Bering Sea In Search of the Lost Expedition Franklin. On October 17, 1848, Moore's ship anchored in safe harbor. In honor of the first successful wintering in the area of the Bering Sea, he gave the name of the bay - Providence (Provideniya).
In 1866-1867 Western Union Telegraph Expedition overwintered in the bay.
The bay was popular place meetings, wintering and fishing for whalers and merchants in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
In 1875, the Russian clipper ship Gaydamak under the command of Sergei Tyrtov anchored in Provideniya Bay. Tyrtov, sent to ensure the state monopoly on coastal trade, distributed among the local Chukchi printed leaflets in the name of foreign merchants. Then he headed north to the Gulf of Laurentia, where he intercepted the American merchant ship Timandra, which was engaged in an exchange with local residents walrus bone for alcohol.
In 1876, with the same task, Captain Novosilsky was sent to these seas on the clipper ship "Rider". The rider anchored in Providence Bay on July 5, 1876, completed a hydrographic survey of the bay, and then headed north, passed the Bering Strait, turned west, reaching Cape Schmidt (then Cape North, or Cape North Cape in English sources) and returned safely . The rider did not meet more than one trading boat, but found evidence of the presence of the latter and signs of trade between local residents and Americans (including an unfinished barrel of whiskey).
In 1881, the Russian clipper ship Strelok anchored in Providence Bay. "Shooter", except for surveys and border control, had the task of rescuing the crews of two missing American whaling ships. However, soon the crew of the American schooner Handy told the Russians that one of the missing boats sank with the entire crew, and the second safely reached San Francisco. Instead, the German scientific expedition Aurel Krause was discovered and supplied with Strelkom. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, the clipper "Shooter" met with the American ship "USS Rogers". Both ships headed north to Bering Strait but soon split up. The Strelok reached Cape Dezhnev (then Cape Vostochny) and turned back while Rogers reached Wrangel Island.
The history of the Chelyuskin epic and the development of the northern sea route showed the need to build a seaport in the bay. In February 1937, the head of the main northern sea route, Otto Yulievich Schmidt, approved the port construction project. And in the summer of 1940, the ships were already unloading at the wall of the first berth. With the creation of a seaport in Providence, the settlements of Ureliki (Plover) are intensively developing.
Chukotka. Providence bay.
To be honest, I even doubted whether to spread it. But there are pictures, maybe someone will find it interesting.
36 photos + some text.
What kind of village is this, and where did it even come from? Here's what Vicki says.
After the discovery of Providence Bay in 1660 by the Russian expedition of Kurbat Ivanov, fishing and wintering of whaling and merchant ships began to be regularly carried out here. At the beginning of the 20th century, with the beginning of the development of the Northern Sea Route, a coal warehouse was organized on the coast of the bay to replenish the fuel reserves of ships heading to the Arctic, and by 1934 the first buildings of the future seaport appeared here, which became the city-forming for the village of Provideniya.
In 1937, with the arrival of a caravan of ships with building materials, the Providenstroy enterprise began active construction of the port and the village, and at the end of 1945, the Kamchatka Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks adopted a resolution on the creation locality Glavsevmorputi in the Bay of Providence.
On May 10, 1946, the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR on the formation of the village of Provideniya was issued, which is considered the official date of the foundation of the settlement.
The village continued to quickly deteriorate, this was facilitated by the relocation of military units here. In 1947 the first public building- dining room.
And Vicki tells us that ..
Until the end of the 1980s, about 6,000 people lived in the village, but in the 1990s, in connection with the mass relocation of residents to the mainland, the administrative merger of two villages took place - Ureliki and Provideniya. The initiator of such enlargements was the then governor Roman Abramovich.
Well, well, I'll show you the Ureliki too.
Sobsno we were there not for pictures, but for work. Sounding in the bay, topographical and geodetic works. So normal tourist photos not at all. There was simply no time.
In the village itself, too, rarely went. To the store if only, but they have prices .. Well, to the bathhouse on Wednesdays and Sundays.
The village, if anything, is also Providence. The most interesting thing they have there is a museum. The museum is small, but people who love it work there, you can see it right away. Naturally, the prices for souvenirs are in dollars, since Alaska is very close, and American cruisers often come by.
Yes, Russians and Chukchis and Evenks live there too.. But this is not Pevek, all local representatives of small nationalities are drunkards for the most part. No deer, no national clothes, no color. All that is, only in the museum.
Whaling gun. They even let us hold him. Heavy pancake, 11-odd kilos. Earlier, they say, whales came into the bay, arranged holidays. We didn't see anything.
The photo really mirrors what is happening in Providence. Above and below on the newspaper is the same ship.
Well, yes, it was worth going to Chukotka to see the chum in the museum ..
Okay, back to the village. At the exit from the port, we are met by an American SUV. Ours can do no worse, and even better. UAZ proves it. Uncle with a level from ours.
In fact, you can actually get used to it if you want. The administration, like everywhere else in small towns, is trying to work. They built a small sports complex, a swimming pool. There is a bus to the airport and the village. More precisely, a shift, but for lack of a stamp, as they say ..
They even have something like holiday village. It's actually pretty cozy and a lot of fun. Although there is a problem with building materials.
Oh! I didn't show you the port from the sea side. It's like night. Polar day.
As you can see, there are very few people. There used to be more.
And the port itself is rather big.
Looks better during the day. The truth is sunny days are rarely there. Very rarely. And it's still cold. Although we were there in July.
Ureliki, as promised. Sorry, but there are few photos. I do not like such "landscapes" in reality. Abramovich's leadership, yes. Once there were soldiers here (do not forget about Alaska).
Please delete, it happened by accident. I'm going to cut off my hands
Another one. By the way, people work there. Even Uzbeks and Tajiks were brought. They break everything there, demolish houses. And they wear it down pretty quickly.
Well, of these Abarmovichs, here are a few pictures from the hill. It is really very beautiful there, very clean air, beautiful sea. Well, it's cold, yes, it happens. This is the Bay of Providence from a height of approximately 430 meters above sea level.
It's hard to take pictures because of the fog. Especially the very bay of Providence. In Komsomolskaya (a bay within a bay) fogs come later and you can take a picture of something. For example, the long-suffering Ureliks.
You can go even higher by skiing. I didn't want to go down, to be honest. Bay Komsomolskaya 1.
2. The village of Providence itself is right up to me.
3. Ureliki. It is seen huge lake Istizhed. The water in it is fresh and coho salmon is found in it. Some kind of species listed in the Red Book. The lake is in the very right part of the photo, separated by a relatively narrow spit from the bay.
Fogs, what beautiful fogs there. True, in a month they got sick of it, since they are endless.
Hills and fogs.. View from the pier.
Whales entered the bay. The truth is uncommunicative. They didn’t want to be photographed, they refused to make acquaintances .. I only managed to take a picture of my back.
Sometimes they die there. Well, local whalers are somewhere in smaller villages. Those Eskimos, Chukchi and others who live according to their old traditions. After them, this is what remains (do not watch for the faint of heart).
And then this is what happens. The swimming pool is in the background.
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I don't know if the writing is visible. When the hills turn green, you can definitely see. But we didn't wait.
"Head Bay and Other Anglicisms"The name of Providence Bay was given by the English navigator Thomas Moore in 1848, when his ship, having fallen into a severe storm in the Bering Sea, accidentally discovered a calm harbor, in which he spent the winter in 1848-1849. Providence Bay is a fjord with several bays: Plover, Emma (Komsomolskaya), Flower, Head, Markovo, Horseman. The village of Providence itself is located in Emma Bay, named after Captain Moore's daughter. There is a legend according to which Emma could not stand the long winter and died of scurvy. She was buried on one of the hills. A wooden cross was installed on the grave, which was seen back in the 70s of the 20th century. Whether this was the grave of Captain Moore's daughter is not known for certain, but it is known that navigators visited the bay long before Thomas Moore. The right of the European opening of the bay most likely belongs to the boyar son Kurbat Ivanov in 1660. In the first third of the 18th century, the ships of the Great Northern Expedition of Vitus Bering visited the bay. James Cook also visited the calm waters of Providence Bay during his Northern Expedition. American whalers also came here in the 19th century. In the second half of the 19th century, the Russian government was concerned about the penetration of American industrialists into territorial waters Russian Empire publishes a circular on border patrols of Russian northern waters. Every year, military clippers and schooners were sent to the shores of Chukotka, which, along with border functions, were engaged in research work. This Russian page military history found its reflection on the map of the North-East of Russia: Rider Bay, named after the clipper "Rider", Senyavinsky Strait - in honor of Admiral Senyavin, Cape Chaplin - in honor of midshipman Pyotr Chaplin, member of the expedition V. Bering, Cape Puzino - in honor of counter -Admiral O.P. Puzino, etc. Arriving in Providence, I did not have a clear plan of action where I would like to go. I knew one thing for sure, that in the village itself I would like to spend as little time as possible. And a day later I had the opportunity to go fishing in Head Bay. The bay got its name from English word"Head" - the head, which was similar to the top of one of the hills. This peak is no longer there. The Eskimos called this bay Nanylkuk - the final bay.
It was the usual Providence weather - low fog, the air was saturated with the smallest particles of moisture, almost complete calm. It is a little more than 15 km from Providence to Head Bay, 10 of them along the road. Leaving the Ural motorcycle near the road and loading bags with a rubber boat, nets and food, we walked along the shore of the bay. The absence of a road is explained by the presence of rocks in several places, which rest directly on the bay. In Soviet times, the military periodically blew up the rocks and at low tide, in trucks, it was possible to pass here. At present, nature has taken its toll and scree from the nearest hill completely cut off the path of vehicles.
Having reached the bay, we decided that it was not rational to drag a boat on ourselves if it was possible to sail on it. One of us must cross the bay (a little less than a kilometer wide) by boat, and the other will go around it along the coast. I turned out to be different. As a child, I walked in these places without the slightest fear, leaving with a friend for a few days in the tundra without a gun. Now, before leaving, my father told a couple of parting stories about how many bears they had recently divorced. To my request for a gun, my father asked in some surprise: “Why do you need it?” And really, why, after such stories? In general, I walked around the bay, peering intently at the bushes and barrels, which, my imagination deftly turned into bears. “It’s good for Vadik, there’s nothing to be afraid of on a boat,” I thought, accelerating my pace. We reached the gully on the opposite bank almost at the same time. I was also surprised how famously Vadik wields oars, just an Olympic reserve. Vadik, having jumped out of the boat, silently smoked 2 cigarettes for a minute before the filter, and only then said: “I will go back along the coast.” It turns out that while I was walking along the shore and was “afraid” of bears, he was quietly sailing on a boat, when suddenly: “Something began to snort to the left. I turn my head and see a herd of walruses about 20 meters from me. Mustache in! And they look at me. And they snort. And it’s not clear what they have in mind.” The third cigarette was launched.
After a snack, we set up the grid and went to look around. Rather, I wanted to reach the right entrance cape to the bay. I have not been on this side. There was another reason as well. In the 1950s-1970s, there was a base for nuclear-powered submarines in this bay. They say that the question of building a submarine base here was even considered. However, we did not find traces of a naval presence, with the exception of a metal cable. Its end was littered with stones, and he himself went into the water. This cable was 10-12 centimeters thick.
Having reached the right entrance cape, I decided to climb to the top of the hill to take panoramic pictures.
The Eskimos have a belief that people sometimes turn into stones. Climbing the hill in these legends is very easy to believe. The remnant rocks, indeed, in profile, resemble people and pelicans - Chukchi gods.
Fishing in Khed was unsuccessful - 1 char in two days.
Taught by bitter experience, we returned by dry land, that is, around the bay. However, having rounded the bay, they decided not to force their backs and pumped up the boat again. "Let's swim along the shore. So that if something has time to jump ashore. We decided to row one by one. Vadik is rowing again, I'm walking along the shore. The weather is completely calm. And suddenly, as in that cartoon: oh, what did that mutter? About 15 meters from the boat, something hit the water with great force. You should have seen Vadik's face. It seemed to me that from such intensive work with oars his oarlocks would break faster than he would reach the shore. To which it was still a good 50 meters. We didn’t see what mumbled, we only saw splashes. Vadik rows swearing, I'm dying of laughter. Dogreb. Again 2 cigarettes one after the other. We can’t understand what was there: maybe a walrus, maybe a killer whale. My turn to row. I am walking 5 meters from the shore. Everything is quiet. We soon realized what it was. In the wake of 15-20 meters from us, a bearded seal (sea hare), a most curious creature, was swimming. We scared him off and he pirouetted noisily into the water. And now he swam after us and watched.
There were no more adventures, and an hour later we were already entering the village of Providence.
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One of the most beautiful places in Chukotka with one of the best local history museums in the region - perhaps a worthy reason to visit Provideniya Bay during your romantic journey through the harsh, but beautiful peninsula. Yes, and the name of the bay - to match, beckons with ancient secrets and riddles. It was here that they got up for the winter, fearing raging storms, ships, and received reliable protection, shelter and shelter.
How to get there
In Providence Bay there is a very small, but international Airport, located near the village of Ureliki, which is on the southern (that is, opposite from the village) coast. Airport accepts regular flights from Anadyr of the Chukotavia airline, as well as charters from American Nome (Alaska). You can get to the center of Provideniya Bay by bus, which also runs around the village.
According to the legend, a bizarrely indented bay in the Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea was discovered in 1660 during a scientific expedition to Cape Chukotsky. However, this name picturesque place emerged nearly two centuries later.
History paragraph
According to the legend, a bizarrely indented bay in the Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea was discovered in 1660 during a scientific expedition by Kurbat Ivanov to Cape Chukotsky. However, the name of this picturesque place appeared almost two centuries later, when in 1848-1849. the English ship "Plover" under the command of Captain Thomas Moore had to anchor here and wait out the harsh local winter.
The ship set sail from British Plymouth in January 1848, and cruised the Bering Sea in search of the lost Franklin expedition.
The bay became their salvation, because the storm wind and bad weather crept up quickly and unexpectedly, and only by Providence itself this quiet and comfortable harbor was sent to them literally in a matter of days from death. The name, which is understandable, was supported by the entire team - Providence Bay has acquired its new name.
And further from this very moment, whalers and merchants periodically stopped here for wintering, for meetings or short-term rest throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. Alas, not everyone treated the local population, let's say, neatly. In 1875, the Russian clipper ship Gaidamak, under the command of Sergei Tyrtov, deliberately anchored in the bay in order to secure a state monopoly on coastal trade. He distributed leaflets among the local Chukchi in the name of foreign merchants, after which he headed north to the Gulf of Laurentia, where he found the merchant ship "Timandra" from the United States, which was engaged in the exchange of walrus bone for alcohol from local population.
The village of the same name in the bay appeared much later, only in 1937 it was decided to build a port. Only three years later, the safe harbor was already open and ready to receive cargo at the wall of the first berth.
During its heyday, when the port did not stop working literally for a minute, and the water surface opposite the village was full of huge dry cargo ships, more than 7 thousand people lived in Providence Bay. Not even half of it today.
Geography and climate
The width of Provideniya Bay reaches an impressive 8 km at the beginning, narrowing towards its base, but the length, measured along the middle line, is over 34 km. The maximum depth is about 150 m, but at the entrance to the bay it does not exceed 35 m, so from May to October the water is completely or partially free of ice.
There are several other small bays and harbors inside the bay, but the village and the airport are located in Komsomolskaya Bay. The steep banks of Providence are the most beautiful cliffs and hills with a height of about 600-800 m.
What to see
The main advantage of the village is the Bay of Providence (not counting fantastic nature around) is Museum of Local Lore, where you can learn almost everything about the life of the local population - the Chukchi, Evenks, Eskimos. It is small, but its collection is unique, as are the people who work within its walls. Hear more interesting stories about it harsh land than within the walls of a "provincial" museum, is hardly possible.
Pay attention to the cost of souvenirs - it is often indicated in dollars, which is not at all surprising: American tourists often come here. cruise ships from Alaska.
