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Village on Vaygach Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug Place in Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia
Varnek Ва́рнек
Location of Varnek
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Coordinates: 69°42′55″N 60°3′36″E / 69.71528°N 60.06000°E / 69.71528; 60.06000
CountryRussia
Federal subjectNenets Autonomous Okrug
Foundedfirst half of the 1930s
Population
 • Total101
Time zoneUTC+3 (MSK Edit this on Wikidata)
Postal code(s)166000
Dialing code(s)+7 81857
OKTMO ID11811479106

Varnek is a village on Vaygach Island of Zapolyarny District, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It had a population of 101 as of 2010, an increase from its population of 94 in 2002.

Geography

Varnek is located on the southern coast of Vaygach Island.

History

In 1921, zinc-lead ores were found in the area, so a mine was established where prisoners of the Gulag worked. The settlement was established in the first half of the 1930s, named after Alexander Ivanovich Varnek, a Russian explorer of the Arctic. Varnek was the last village in Nenets Autonomous Okrug to be able to get phone calls, being introduced in 2011.

Climate

Varnek has a subarctic climate (Dfc).

References

  1. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
  2. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  3. Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  4. "Варнек. Ржавые бочки, боевые лебеди и пулемет Эйхманса". 19 August 2019.
  5. "Арктика, полюс, северный, южный, вездеход, антарктида, путешествие экспедиционный центр". www.ec-arctic.ru. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
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