ON the photo: Chukotka, Ugolnye Kopi village, Komsomolskaya street

Ugolnyye Kopi is an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of the Anadyrsky district of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. It is located on the coast of the Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea opposite the city of Anadyr. In 2010, 3367 people lived here, which is significantly lower compared to the 2002 census - then 3863 people lived here.

The basis of the economy is the extraction of brown coal. Near the village is also located the international airport Coal, the largest in Chukotka.

In the village there is a Temple of the Pochaev Icon of the Mother of God. It is unusual architecture for a church.

In winter, when the water area of the Anadyr estuary is covered with thick ice, the ice road opens, and then the travel time by car from Anadyr to Coal Mines is only 30 minutes. The Anadyr Estuary is part of the Bering Sea and the Gulf of Anadyr. As scientists explain, it owes its origin to the Anadyr River. This is one of the largest rivers not only in the Chukotka Peninsula, but in the entire Northeast.

ON the photo: Chukotka, sunset on the Anadyr Estuary

The settlement was founded at the beginning of the 20th century as a settlement of miners who supplied the Novo-Mariinsk post with coal. The district administration in different years was located either in Anadyr or in Miner. Since 1997, the Ugolniye Kopi urban-type settlement has become the final center of the district. All regional institutions and several military units are located here. There is a network of shops, a communication center, a library, schools, a cultural center. The settlement is stretched along the airport - Shakhtersky road. The microdistrict "Pervomayka" is the most comfortable. There is no hotel in the village, but there is one at the airport.

The surroundings of the village are very picturesque with a view of the Anadyr estuary, the endless tundra. In summer, there is excellent fishing and an abundance of berries and mushrooms.

The village of Coal Mines is located opposite Anadyr, the capital of Chukotka. Previously, it was one of the largest settlements in Chukotka, more than 12 thousand people lived here, which is a lot by the standards of Chukotka. Most of the inhabitants are military men, members of their families, persons serving military camps. In the early 90s, the military left, most of the buildings turned out to be useless, the number of residents decreased by four times.
Now the abandoned part of the village is a terrible sight.
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3. In the Coal Mines there were several military units of different branches of the armed forces, a whole garrison.
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5. The officers lived here mainly in such houses.
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6. Now in "Ugolki", as the locals call the village, there are several residential buildings, a court, a church. The population lives nearby in the village of Pervomaisky, separated from the Coal Mines, there are colored houses, a school and life. In the Coal Mines, emptiness, abandonment and devastation.
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Pay attention to the wooden extension to the house, we will return to this topic later.

7. Residential buildings. For some reason, they were not even painted, as is customary now in Chukotka. Painted houses are in Pervomaisky and the airport village, also known as Coal Mine-3.
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8. In the center of the village stands the MiG-19, a monument to aviators - pioneers and defenders of the sky of Chukotka. The aircraft was installed in August 1977.
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9. A few years ago, the MiG-19 wanted to take the city of Engels, where he was supposed to take a place in the museum of long-range aviation. Residents spoke out strongly against and defended the plane.
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10. A whole MiG-19 surrounded by empty dilapidated houses, an unusual sight.
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11. Opposite the plane is a school. I wrote a separate article about her.
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12. Near the building of the House of Officers. Let's go over here.
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13. Former dressing room or warehouse, lots of the same shoes.
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14. Front staircase to the second floor.
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15. Top view of the cinema and concert hall. Films were played from this cabin.
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17. Nobody needs technology.
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18. Once upon a time, cultural life was in full swing here, children went to circles, concerts were held for the congresses of the CPSU.
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19. Later, video cassette rental worked.
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20. Now everything is abandoned and vandalized. I'm going to the exit.
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21. The next item on our program is a shopping mall.
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22. In fact, only the walls have survived.
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23. The supply in the North was good, but now nobody needs the building.
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24. Preserved tablets.
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25. Remains of an atelier where the military made clothes.
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26. The most common scales "Tyumen".
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28. Abandoned garages and the remains of equipment.
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31. It looks like a military economy.
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32. Most of the village - abandoned houses.
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33. Let's go inside, see how people lived.
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34. In most apartments, everything that can be used in the household has not survived. Floors have been removed almost everywhere, they are used in the construction of sheds.
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35. Some houses were empty recently.
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36. Pay attention to the detail on the right side of the frame, this is a portable bucket toilet.
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37. It's hard to imagine, but there were no toilets in the apartments. They were located in wooden outhouses.
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38. Each toilet served the inhabitants of several apartments.
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39. In such conditions lived people who were on round-the-clock combat duty.
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40. From the series "The Stopped Clock of Chukotka".
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41. Empty apartments, some things were not taken out by former residents.
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45. Some book about aviation.
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47. Children's toys in such places always cause dissonance.
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48. Judging by the ad, the house was moved out less than three years ago.

Sergey Dolya writes: The most mysterious and hard-to-reach abandoned place is located in Chukotka - the nuclear military unit Anadyr-1 or, as the locals call it, Gudym. It appeared in the early 60s to place nuclear missiles closer to a possible enemy, that is, the United States. The base was super-secret, the locals only knew that some military unit was nearby.

The heart of Gudym is a huge concrete "burrow" with warehouses for storage and maintenance of nuclear missiles. How and in what way it was "gnawed" in the permafrost is a mystery to me. In addition to the military facility, there was also a town where employees and their families lived.

However, in the traditional attempt to outplay everyone, we mostly outplayed ourselves. On December 8, 1987, a Soviet-American summit was held in Washington, during which Gorbachev and Reagan signed an indefinite "Treaty on the elimination of medium and short-range missiles", after which all weapons were removed from the base. For some time, the underground premises were used as a storage base for the Anadyr military garrison, but in 2002 Gudym was completely abandoned.

Today it is a ghost town. What was more or less valuable was stolen. Nevertheless, despite the rotten walls of the houses and the peeling paint of the underground tunnels, one can see the grandiose scale of Gudym...

Warehouses on the way to the base. There are cruise missiles all around. Apparently educational. In the panorama they are on the left near the blue barrel:

There are a lot of them here. I didn’t count, but offhand there are 20 pieces:

Flaps on a rocket:

There are some balls inside:

So, Gudym. Shoigu came to Anadyr 3 days after me and had to visit this abandoned base. Now this object is not guarded by anyone and no one needs it, but maybe a lock will be put here soon and then I will be the last blogger who has been inside:

At the entrance to it is an inconspicuous bunker:

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Entrance to the main military facility where the missiles were stored:

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We went there by car. Inside is a long corridor with branches. They didn’t meddle in the branches, but drove through the tunnel:

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The tunnel is closed by a massive armored door weighing 40 tons (the weight of a medium tank). Closing time approximately 2 minutes:

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Remote next to the door:

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The object has full anti-nuclear protection, it is designed for bombing from the air:

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It is interesting, of course, where these branches lead, but they did not dare to study:

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Second exit:

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Signs of the former guard of a military facility:

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But now Gudym is guarded only by evrazhki:

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Ominous installations are apparently left by rare travelers. The locals definitely don’t care about this, they cut out the last doors:

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The military camp is now completely destroyed and plundered. Not of interest as an "abandoned", since there is nothing left:

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Locals come here as to a building materials warehouse and drag everything that is not nailed down. I saw 3 cars with teams that tore boards and logs from houses and loaded onto trailers:

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Some interest may cause a former shopping center:

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For a military town in the far north, it is rather big:

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Former headquarters:

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Complete ruin inside.

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Inscription: "On guard, as in war - be doubly vigilant." This is a carcer:

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Guards quarters:

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Restroom:

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Entrance to the prison:

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To put it mildly, small:

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Finally, a short exposition by an unknown military author:

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Coal Mines

Coal Mines - a village opposite Anadyr. They are separated by a wide river, which can be crossed for 100 rubles on a small, roughly welded boat. The village has a population of 5,000 - only half that of the city - but because all government buildings are in Anadyr, the Coal Mines look much smaller than their neighbor.

However, this is another atypical Chukotka village...

Around the village tundra. Sometimes bears come into the city. Last year there was a bear with a cub. She drove the fishermen onto the roof of the barn, ate all the fish and left:

Just like in Anadyr, asphalt is not used here. All roads are covered with self-leveling and absolutely smooth concrete. There is even a road camera sign, but the camera itself is only displayed on holidays:

Residents pick berries and mushrooms right outside the village. You don't have to go far:

All houses are cheerfully painted:

This plays a huge role in the life of the North, since most of the year everything is white and cloudy here:

Everywhere sidewalks, markings for cars, painted curbs:

It is not clear whether this is the yard area so marked, or whether the road meanders so, but it is beautiful:

Monument to the first Chukchi pilot:

Kindergarten:

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The school was built according to a special northern project. Haven't seen these before:

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Near the school stadium with artificial turf:

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There are many playgrounds in the village. There is even a skate park:

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Gym:

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Free buses run around the city 3 times a day. They take people to work in a coal mine or airport, and then back:

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The rest of the time, people travel by taxi, of which there are a huge number in the village:

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You can’t go far on the tundra on ordinary wheels, so there are a lot of all-terrain vehicles in the city:

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The terrible cuttlefish is called the Wanderer:

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The city continues to fill dusty areas with concrete, although this is a very expensive task. For example, filling this site costs the village 4 million rubles:

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The village is developing. A new store is under construction:

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Although, of course, he is unlikely to surpass this emerald house:

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Coordinates : 64°44′12″ s. sh. 177°40′28″ E d. / 64.73667° N sh. 177.67444° E d./ 64.73667; 177.67444(G) (I) Head of Administration

Andrushchenko Petr Pavlovich

PGT with Population National composition Timezone Telephone code Postcode car code OKATO code

Geography

Story

The status of an urban-type settlement has been since 1968.

Population

Population
1970	1979	1989	2002	2009	2010	2012	2013
5940	↗ 9929	↗ 12 357	↘ 3863	↘ 3395	↘ 3368	↗ 3487	↗ 3574
2014	2015	2016
↗ 3586	↗ 3666	↗ 3736

Economy

The basis of the economy is the extraction of brown coal. Near the village is the largest in the region international airport Ugolny.

monuments

In 2014, a bronze monument was erected in the village to military pilot Timofey Yelkov, a native of Chukotka who died in battle during the Great Patriotic War. Previously, since 1997, the monument was located in Shakhtyorsky, but after its liquidation in 2002, the monument was abandoned.

Paleobotanical heritage

On the territory of the village Coal Mines, in the area of the Golden Ridge, traces of fossil flora and fauna dating back to the late Cretaceous - Paleocene, discovered in 2003, have been preserved. Two deposits are known - Coal and Pervomaisky complex. The fossil plant complexes are interesting for their extensive species composition and the preservation of petrified plant remains. At present, they are presented in the museum collections of the Chukotka Heritage Medical Center in Anadyr (130 exhibits) and in the collection of paleobotanist A.A. Pollen grains extracted from shells show that about 2 million years ago, coniferous-broad-leaved forests existed on the territory of the Golden Range.

Finds of mosasaurs are known in the Maastrichtian deposits of the inner part of the Golden Ridge. In the fossil state, the remains of teeth, vertebrae, a fragment of the jaw have been preserved.

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Notes

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[[Grabovsky A.A., Dyachenko Ya.V. New paleontological finds from the Lower Jurassic-Middle Pleistocene marine deposits of the Lower Anadyr Lowland]]uchi.skachate.ru/docs/1029/index-463667.html?page=2]

An excerpt characterizing the Coal Mines

So the captain told the touching story of his love for a charming thirty-five-year-old marquise and at the same time for a lovely innocent seventeen-year-old child, the daughter of a charming marquise. The struggle of generosity between mother and daughter, which ended in the mother, sacrificing herself, offering her daughter in marriage to her lover, even now, although a long-gone memory, worried the captain. Then he told one episode in which the husband played the role of a lover, and he (the lover) the role of a husband, and several comic episodes from souvenirs d "Allemagne, where asile means Unterkunft, where les maris mangent de la choux croute and where les jeunes filles sont trop blondes [memories of Germany, where husbands eat cabbage soup and where young girls are too blonde.]
Finally, the last episode in Poland, still fresh in the captain’s memory, which he told with quick gestures and a flushed face, consisted in the fact that he saved the life of one Pole (in general, in the stories of the captain, the episode of saving life occurred incessantly) and this Pole entrusted him with his charming wife (Parisienne de c?ur [a Parisian at heart]), while he himself entered the French service. The captain was happy, the charming polka wanted to run away with him; but, moved by generosity, the captain returned his wife to her husband, while saying to him: “Je vous ai sauve la vie et je sauve votre honneur!” [I saved your life and I save your honor!] Having repeated these words, the captain rubbed his eyes and shook himself, as if driving away the weakness that seized him at this touching memory.
Listening to the captain's stories, as often happens in the late evening and under the influence of wine, Pierre followed everything that the captain said, understood everything, and at the same time followed a number of personal memories that suddenly for some reason appeared to his imagination. When he listened to these stories of love, his own love for Natasha unexpectedly suddenly came to his mind, and, turning over in his imagination the pictures of this love, he mentally compared them with the stories of Rambal. Following the story of the struggle between duty and love, Pierre saw before him all the slightest details of his last meeting with the object of his love at the Sukharev Tower. Then this meeting had no effect on him; he never even mentioned her. But now it seemed to him that this meeting had something very significant and poetic.
“Pyotr Kirilych, come here, I have found out,” he now heard these words spoken, saw before him her eyes, her smile, her traveling cap, a strand of hair that had fallen out ... and something touching, touching seemed to him in all this.
Having finished his story about the charming polka, the captain turned to Pierre with a question whether he had experienced a similar feeling of self-sacrifice for love and envy for his lawful husband.
Provoked by this question, Pierre raised his head and felt the need to express the thoughts that occupied him; he began to explain how he understands love for a woman somewhat differently. He said that in his whole life he loved and loves only one woman and that this woman can never belong to him.
– Tiens! [Look at you!] – said the captain.
Then Pierre explained that he had loved this woman from a very young age; but did not dare to think of her, because she was too young, and he was an illegitimate son without a name. Then, when he received a name and wealth, he did not dare to think about her, because he loved her too much, placed her too high above the whole world and therefore, even more so, above himself. Having reached this point in his story, Pierre turned to the captain with the question: does he understand this?
The captain made a gesture expressing that if he did not understand, then he still asked to continue.
- L "amour platonique, les nuages ... [Platonic love, clouds ...] - he muttered. Whether the wine drunk, or the need for frankness, or the thought that this person does not know and does not recognize any of the characters in his story, or all together unleashed tongue to Pierre. And with a mumbling mouth and oily eyes, looking somewhere into the distance, he told his whole story: both his marriage, and the story of Natasha's love for his best friend, and her betrayal, and all his simple relations with her. he also told what he was hiding at first - his position in the world and even revealed his name to him.
What struck the captain most of all from Pierre's story was that Pierre was very rich, that he had two palaces in Moscow, and that he abandoned everything and did not leave Moscow, but remained in the city, hiding his name and rank.
It was late at night when they went outside together. The night was warm and bright. To the left of the house was the glow of the first fire that had begun in Moscow, on Petrovka. To the right stood high the young sickle of the moon, and on the opposite side of the moon hung that bright comet, which was associated in Pierre's soul with his love. Gerasim, the cook, and two Frenchmen were standing at the gate. Their laughter and conversation in a language incomprehensible to each other were heard. They looked at the glow that could be seen in the city.
There was nothing wrong with a small, distant fire in a huge city.
Looking at the high starry sky, at the moon, at the comet and at the glow, Pierre felt joyful tenderness. “Well, that's how good it is. Well, what else do you need?!” he thought. And suddenly, when he remembered his intention, his head began to spin, he became ill, so that he leaned against the fence so as not to fall.
Without saying goodbye to his new friend, Pierre walked away from the gate with unsteady steps and, returning to his room, lay down on the sofa and immediately fell asleep.

At the glow of the first fire that broke out on September 2, from different roads, with different feelings, the fleeing and leaving residents and the retreating troops looked.
That night the Rostov train stopped at Mytishchi, twenty versts from Moscow. On September 1, they left so late, the road was so cluttered with wagons and troops, so many things were forgotten, for which people were sent, that that night it was decided to spend the night five miles beyond Moscow. The next morning we set off late, and again there were so many stops that we only reached Bolshiye Mytishchi. At ten o'clock, the Rostovs and the wounded who were traveling with them all settled in the yards and huts of a large village. The people, the coachmen of the Rostovs and the batmen of the wounded, having removed the gentlemen, had supper, fed the horses, and went out onto the porch.
In a neighboring hut, Raevsky's wounded adjutant lay, with a broken hand, and the terrible pain that he felt made him moan plaintively, without ceasing, and these moans sounded terribly in the autumn darkness of the night. On the first night, this adjutant spent the night in the same courtyard where the Rostovs stood. The countess said that she could not close her eyes from this groan, and in Mytishchi she moved to the worst hut only in order to be away from this wounded man.
One of the people in the darkness of the night, from behind the high body of the carriage standing at the entrance, noticed another small glow of the fire. One glow had already been visible for a long time, and everyone knew that it was the Little Mytishchi burning, lit by the Mamon Cossacks.
“But this, brothers, is another fire,” said the batman.
Everyone turned their attention to the glow.
- Why, they said, Mamonov Cossacks lit Maly Mytishchi.
- They are! No, this is not Mytishchi, it is far away.
“Look, it’s definitely in Moscow.
Two of the men stepped off the porch, went behind the carriage, and sat down on the footboard.
- It's left! Well, Mytishchi is over there, and this is completely on the other side.
Several people joined the first.
- Look, it's blazing, - said one, - this, gentlemen, is a fire in Moscow: either in Sushchevskaya or in Rogozhskaya.
Nobody responded to this remark. And for a long time all these people silently looked at the distant flames of a new fire.
The old man, the count's valet (as he was called), Danilo Terentyich, went up to the crowd and called out to Mishka.
- You didn’t see anything, slut ... The count will ask, but there is no one; go get your dress.
- Yes, I just ran for water, - said Mishka.
- And what do you think, Danilo Terentyich, it's like a glow in Moscow? one of the footmen said.
Danilo Terentyich made no answer, and again everyone was silent for a long time. The glow spread and swayed further and further.
“God have mercy! .. wind and dry land ...” the voice said again.
- Look how it went. Oh my God! you can see the jackdaws. Lord, have mercy on us sinners!
- They'll put it out.
- Who to put out then? came the voice of Danila Terentyich, who had been silent until now. His voice was calm and slow. “Moscow is indeed, brothers,” he said, “she is the mother of the squirrel…” His voice broke off, and he suddenly let out an old sob. And as if everyone was just waiting for this in order to understand the meaning that this visible glow had for them. There were sighs, words of prayer, and the sobbing of the old count's valet.

The valet, returning, reported to the count that Moscow was on fire. The count put on his dressing-gown and went out to have a look. Sonya, who had not yet undressed, and Madame Schoss came out with him. Natasha and the countess were alone in the room. (Petya was no longer with the family; he went ahead with his regiment, marching to Trinity.)
The Countess wept when she heard the news of the fire in Moscow. Natasha, pale, with fixed eyes, sitting under the icons on the bench (in the very place where she sat down when she arrived), did not pay any attention to her father's words. She listened to the incessant groan of the adjutant, heard through three houses.
- Oh, what a horror! - said, come back from the yard, cold and frightened Sonya. - I think all of Moscow will burn, a terrible glow! Natasha, look now, you can see it from the window from here, ”she said to her sister, apparently wanting to entertain her with something. But Natasha looked at her, as if not understanding what she was being asked, and again stared with her eyes at the corner of the stove. Natasha has been in this state of tetanus since this morning, from the very time that Sonya, to the surprise and annoyance of the countess, for no reason at all, found it necessary to announce to Natasha about the wound of Prince Andrei and about his presence with them on the train. The countess was angry with Sonya, as she rarely got angry. Sonya cried and asked for forgiveness, and now, as if trying to make amends for her guilt, she did not stop caring for her sister.
“Look, Natasha, how terribly it burns,” said Sonya.
- What is on fire? Natasha asked. – Oh, yes, Moscow.
And as if in order not to offend Sonya by her refusal and to get rid of her, she moved her head to the window, looked so that she obviously could not see anything, and again sat down in her former position.
- Didn't you see it?
“No, really, I saw it,” she said in a pleading voice.
Both the countess and Sonya understood that Moscow, the fire of Moscow, whatever it was, of course, could not matter to Natasha.
The count again went behind the partition and lay down. The countess went up to Natasha, touched her head with her upturned hand, as she did when her daughter was sick, then touched her forehead with her lips, as if to find out if there was a fever, and kissed her.
- You are cold. You're all trembling. You should go to bed,” she said.
- Lie down? Yes, okay, I'll go to bed. I'm going to bed now, - said Natasha.
Since Natasha was told this morning that Prince Andrei was seriously wounded and was traveling with them, she only in the first minute asked a lot about where? as? is he dangerously injured? and can she see him? But after she was told that she was not allowed to see him, that he was seriously injured, but that his life was not in danger, she obviously did not believe what she was told, but convinced that no matter how much she said, she would be answer the same thing, stopped asking and talking. All the way, with big eyes, which the countess knew so well and whose expression the countess was so afraid of, Natasha sat motionless in the corner of the carriage and was now sitting in the same way on the bench on which she sat down. She was thinking about something, something she was deciding or had already decided in her mind now - the countess knew this, but what it was, she did not know, and this frightened and tormented her.
- Natasha, undress, my dear, lie down on my bed. (Only the countess alone was made a bed on the bed; m me Schoss and both young ladies had to sleep on the floor in the hay.)
“No, mom, I’ll lie down here on the floor,” Natasha said angrily, went to the window and opened it. The groan of the adjutant was heard more distinctly from the open window. She stuck her head out into the damp night air, and the countess saw her thin shoulders tremble with sobs and beat against the frame. Natasha knew that it was not Prince Andrei who was moaning. She knew that Prince Andrei was lying in the same connection where they were, in another hut across the passage; but this terrible unceasing groan made her sob. The Countess exchanged glances with Sonya.
"Lie down, my dear, lie down, my friend," said the countess, lightly touching Natasha's shoulder with her hand. - Well, go to bed.
“Ah, yes ... I’ll lie down now, now,” said Natasha, hastily undressing and tearing off the strings of her skirts. Throwing off her dress and putting on a jacket, she tucked her legs up, sat down on the bed prepared on the floor and, throwing her short, thin braid over her shoulder, began to weave it. Thin long habitual fingers quickly, deftly took apart, weaved, tied a braid. Natasha's head, with a habitual gesture, turned first to one side, then to the other, but her eyes, feverishly open, fixedly stared straight ahead. When the night costume was over, Natasha quietly sank down on a sheet spread on hay from the edge of the door.
“Natasha, lie down in the middle,” said Sonya.
“No, I’m here,” Natasha said. "Go to bed," she added with annoyance. And she buried her face in the pillow.
The countess, m me Schoss, and Sonya hurriedly undressed and lay down. One lamp was left in the room. But in the yard it was brightening from the fire of Maly Mytishchi, two miles away, and the drunken cries of the people were buzzing in the tavern, which was broken by the Mamonov Cossacks, on the warp, in the street, and the incessant groan of the adjutant was heard all the time.
For a long time Natasha listened to the internal and external sounds that reached her, and did not move. At first she heard her mother's prayer and sighs, the creaking of her bed under her, the familiar whistling snore of m me Schoss, Sonya's quiet breathing. Then the Countess called Natasha. Natasha did not answer her.
“He seems to be sleeping, mother,” Sonya answered quietly. The Countess, after a pause, called again, but no one answered her.
Soon after, Natasha heard her mother's even breathing. Natasha did not move, despite the fact that her small bare foot, knocked out from under the covers, shivered on the bare floor.
As if celebrating the victory over everyone, a cricket screamed in the crack. The rooster crowed far away, relatives responded. In the tavern, the screams died down, only the same stand of the adjutant was heard. Natasha got up.
- Sonya? are you sleeping? Mother? she whispered. Nobody answered. Natasha slowly and cautiously got up, crossed herself and carefully stepped with her narrow and flexible bare foot on the dirty cold floor. The floorboard creaked. She, quickly moving her feet, ran like a kitten a few steps and took hold of the cold bracket of the door.
It seemed to her that something heavy, evenly striking, was knocking on all the walls of the hut: it was beating her heart, which was dying from fear, from horror and love, bursting.
She opened the door, stepped over the threshold and stepped onto the damp, cold earth of the porch. The chill that gripped her refreshed her. She felt the sleeping man with her bare foot, stepped over him and opened the door to the hut where Prince Andrei lay. It was dark in this hut. In the back corner, by the bed, on which something was lying, on a bench stood a tallow candle burnt with a large mushroom.
In the morning, Natasha, when she was told about the wound and the presence of Prince Andrei, decided that she should see him. She didn't know what it was for, but she knew that the date would be painful, and she was even more convinced that it was necessary.
All day she lived only in the hope that at night she would see him. But now that the moment had come, she was terrified of what she would see. How was he mutilated? What was left of him? Was he like that, what was that unceasing groan of the adjutant? Yes, he was. He was in her imagination the personification of that terrible moan. When she saw an indistinct mass in the corner and took his knees raised under the covers by his shoulders, she imagined some kind of terrible body and stopped in horror. But an irresistible force pulled her forward. She cautiously took one step, then another, and found herself in the middle of a small cluttered hut. In the hut, under the images, another person was lying on benches (it was Timokhin), and two more people were lying on the floor (they were a doctor and a valet).

The urban-type settlement, as part of the Anadyr district of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, is located on the shores of the Anadyr Bay of the Bering Sea opposite Anadyr.

The population according to the results of the 2002 census is 3863 people, according to the 2010 census it was 3368 people, in 2015 - 3666 people.
Number of voters as of 01.01.2010: 2607 people

This is a working village. Miners, military, workers, employees, aviators live here. It is located on the left bank of the Anadyr estuary. You can get to it from Anadyr Airport by taxi or regular bus in 15-20 minutes. From the district center in the summer you can get there by regular boat, and then by bus. Travel time is about 1 hour. In winter, when the water area of the Anadyr estuary is covered with thick ice, the ice road opens, and then the travel time by car from Anadyr to Coal Mines will not exceed 30 minutes.
The settlement was founded at the beginning of the 20th century. as a settlement of miners who supplied the Novo-Mariinsk post with coal. The district administration in different years was located either in Anadyr or in Miner. Since 1997, Coal Mines have become the final center of the district. All regional institutions and several military units are located here. There is a network of shops, a communication center, a library, schools, a cultural center. The settlement is stretched along the airport - Shakhtersky road. The microdistrict "Pervomayka" is the most comfortable. There is no hotel in the village, but there is one at the airport. The surroundings of the village are very picturesque with a view of the estuary, the endless tundra. In summer, there is excellent fishing and an abundance of berries and mushrooms.
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For decades, on the map of the Anadyr region, for a long time, the administrative center was the village of Kombinat, renamed Shakhtyorsky in the early 1960s. In 2007, it was finally liquidated. The settlement was located on the opposite side of the estuary from Anadyr, between the shore of the Melkaya Bay and the foot of the Second Gorka, and for a long time it was like a separate microdistrict of the capital of Chukotka. The first information about the development of these places dates back to the beginning of the 20th century. Around 1909, a large capitalist from Vladivostok, the owner of fisheries, Grushetsky, settled here. He was also the sole owner of the Pacific Shipping Company Grushetsky and Co. In addition to ordinary cargo ships, he also owned two refrigerators, and at that time ships of this type were quite rare. In 1906-1908, on the left side of the estuary, gold was mined at the American joint-stock mine Discovery. The mine was closed, but the expectations remained. So Grushetsky decided to settle closer to the places of the desired future discoveries of gold, so as not to miss his chance. In the meantime, he has invested free capital in the construction of the first two fish breeding plants in the northeast of Russia on the western coast of Kamchatka. And at the same time he achieved the status of the supplier of the court of His Imperial Majesty, the most delicious Anadyr salmon in the Far East. According to the well-known geologist Pyotr Polevoy, who studied Chukotka in 1912-1913, only the refrigerator "Eugene" took away an unprecedented catch to the royal table - 72 thousand pounds over the summer. Due to the small population in the district, Grushetsky most often brought Korean workers from Vladivostok to his fishing trips.
In the 1910s-1920s, prospectors after a summer search for gold in winter on the left bank of the estuary passed pits to explore the coal found here. In 1928, the Joint-Stock Kamchatka Society (AKO), established a year earlier, sent a geological expedition, large for that time even for the country, led by V.V. Cooper-Konin. She had at her disposal two drilling rigs, two caterpillar tractors with trailers, sea and river boats, barges, an equipment repair workshop equipped with various machines. Boats and barges settled in Melkaya Bay. The expedition, which worked until 1930, did not find gold at the site of the former Discovery mine and on the neighboring watercourses of the Volchya River basin, but made a preliminary calculation of coal reserves on the left bank of the Anadyr Estuary. According to her, they amounted to 17.6 million tons. This turned out to be very useful, since at the previous developments, at the site of the first coal mines on the other side of the estuary, due to a fire, the seam was largely burned out in 1929.
In 1929, AKO decided to develop the rich stocks of local salmon and created the Anadyr fish cannery. On the shore of Melkaya Bay, in the same year, the construction of the Anadyr fish factory, one of the fishing bases of the plant, began. Two years later, a power plant with a capacity of 44 kW was put into operation here. The following summer, 12,500 cases of canned fish were already produced. Each of them contained 48 cans. The plant included five fishing bases, a cannery, handicraft development of local coals on the left bank of the estuary, and other facilities. And with the advent of the second cannery in the south of the region, in Meynypilyyn, where there was also one of the fishing bases, the fish cannery was divided into two plants - Anadyr and Meynypilyyn. Both plants reached their maximum catch and output in 1943. Most of the catch went to salting, and it was sent in barrels to feed the prisoners who mined tin at the defense enterprises of Dalstroy in the Chaunsky district and also worked at other facilities.
At the time when the building of the plant was being built, not only in Chukotka, but also in the country, there was still no experience of building in permafrost conditions, and its very features required a comprehensive study. And it so happened that the building, built without taking into account knowledge about permafrost, began to collapse in a couple of years. But as they say, there would be no happiness, but misfortune helped. Not far from the shore of Melkaya Bay, in 1935, the Anadyr Research Permafrost Station was founded, which became the first academic scientific institution in Chukotka. At different times, talented specialists worked at the station, who eventually became prominent scientists of world renown. Its founder, Ph.D. P.F. Shvetsov, for outstanding work, was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, bypassing a doctoral degree. As a prominent scientist, Pyotr Filimonovich headed the Permafrost Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences for a long time and was awarded the State Prize.
Melkaya Bay and Vtoraya Gorka, between which the Combine is located, which became the center of the district after the war, played an outstanding role in the history of the district. At first, the bay became famous for its abundant fish catches. In 1932, the seaplane of the pilot G. Straube landed on its water surface. The flight expedition of geologist S. Obruchev and cartographer K. Salishchev started from here with his crew on the YuG-1 float plane. In flights in the sky of Chukotka, the crew was headed by naval pilot F.K. Kukanov. Decades will pass, and the work of geologists using aviation will become commonplace, and the method itself will be called group survey.
In April 1940, the first flight connecting Moscow with Anadyr ended in the vicinity of the Combine. It was performed by one of the first Heroes of the Soviet Union M.V. Vodopyanov. And in the summer, on the new airline, landing on H-309 planes flying from Anadyr to Moscow went from a wooden sea pier near the shore of the bay. On the Second Gorka, even before the war, the first pilots from among the indigenous inhabitants of the region took off into the sky. At the same time, the first paratroopers of Chukotka "landed" on the ice of the bay. Many pilots of the Chukotka air group then went into the sky from the dirt strip of the Second Gorka and the ice of the bay. One of them, V.I. Maslennikov, during the war years he became the commander of a long-range aviation squadron. For the bombing of important military facilities deep behind enemy lines and other combat missions, Vitaly Ivanovich was awarded the high title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1943. He was also awarded 4 Orders of Lenin, Orders of the Red Banner of Battle and Alexander Nevsky, two Orders of the Patriotic War of the 1st degree, Orders of the Red Banner of Labor and the Red Star, and medals. No civilian pilot in the country had such an impressive number of awards. After the war, Vitaly Ivanovich again landed his car on the ice of the bay more than once already as a polar aviation pilot and, between flights, painted Chukchi landscapes with great enthusiasm with great enthusiasm. In total, Vitaly Ivanovich flew in the Arctic for a full thirty years.
Melkaya and Vtoraya Gorka bays played a particularly important role during the Great Patriotic War. In the summer, planes landed on Gorka for refueling, and in the winter on the ice, as if on an alternate airfield. These were hundreds of aircraft flown from Alaska to the front under the Lend-Lease agreement system along the then famous and then secret AlSib air route, the crews of which landed on the ice in winter. The commander of the Red Banner Krasnoyarsk ferry division, Hero of the Soviet Union Ilya Pavlovich Mazuruk, the famous American pilot Thomas Watson, and other famous pilots landed here. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Thomas Watson was the US ambassador to the Soviet Union. In 1987, the 73-year-old former US ambassador, during a round-the-world flight from west to east, was received in Moscow by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR A.A. Gromyko in Moscow, and then there were unforgettable meetings on the land of Chukotka and in Anadyr, where during the war years Thomas Watson spent his fighting youth.
Recall that the Moscow-Anadyr-Moscow airline was opened in 1940. For twenty years, Vtoraya Gorka remained its final destination. All this time, the planes first went south, in the direction of Khabarovsk, and then to Moscow. During frequent landings of aircraft for refueling, transfers to other types of aircraft were not uncommon. In 1960, on the Moscow-Anadyr-Moscow air route, which ran along the northern route with landings in Amderma, Khatanga and Tiksi, more comfortable and modern cars began to fly - the first-born of the Soviet civil jet aircraft Tu-104 and the Il-18 turboprop aircraft. They transported not only passengers, but also cargo, especially fresh vegetables, to the airport of the county's capital. Planes landed and took off from the first concrete strip of the district - a military airfield, but for a long time, until September 1974, part of the civil aviation services, until the airport complex was built, was located on Vtoraya Gorka. Such a “scatter” of civil aviation services made the Anadyr airport the most difficult in the country at that time.
The plant and the airport are connected by a dirt road. Its last kilometers pass through the Coal Mines. The village has a number of neighborhoods, including an airport.
The date of foundation of Coal Mines can be conditionally attributed to the end of the 1920s, when artisanal year-round coal mining was organized here, the first mine was cut. At the same time, an auxiliary section of the Anadyr fish processing plant was created here. After the liquidation of the latter in 1957, the mine became an independent enterprise. For decades, coal has been delivered from here not only to the district center, but also to deep-seated points along the Anadyr River, to the Egvekinotskaya GRES. In the form of an experiment, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were deliveries to Kamchatka and Japan. The teams of underground workers in terms of productivity on the same type of equipment were among the best in the country. Now coal is mined from the fourth mine. It is fed along the conveyor to the pier, where in the summer it is loaded onto boats. In winter, more than a hundred thousand tons are delivered to the Anadyr CHPP by motor vehicles along the ice crossing across the estuary. For miners and employees of other institutions, the Pervomaika microdistrict was built according to modern projects.
Not far from the mine, in the 1930s, a transmitting radio station and an antenna field were built. A receiving station was established at Cape Observation. For decades, the transmitting and receiving station was considered a complex of government communications.
Military units of the Anadyr garrison were in the Coal Mines for a long time.
As a military garrison, the village of Coal Mines has now lost its significance. In the summer of 1983, the air defense division located here was alerted and deployed its route inland. Already in the air, the division commander received the coordinates of the destination - Gudauta, the Black Sea coast.

In recent years, military units have been withdrawn from Coal Mines and the vicinity of the village. But we must name one more object - the Residential Cat.
In the waters abeam the cat (spit) and the rocky island of Alyumka, there has always been a plentiful flow of salmon for spawning. There, on the spit, until the mid-1940s, there was the ancient village of Tavayvaam. But the military "laid their eyes" on Cape Seleniya, which ends with a cat, and, not dividing the place with the fish, decided to build a concrete pier. The inhabitants of Tavayvaam had to "make room", and they were moved to the other side of the estuary, in the vicinity of Anadyr.
Now Tavaivaam, remaining a village, is under the control of the city administration. And to the first, once a concrete pier, which has long lost its former military significance, ships with cargoes for the left side of the estuary are moored for navigation.
A passenger line also starts from this pier, connecting the left bank with the district center.
The most remote microdistrict of Coal Mines is the town of aviators. In early 1996, the previously independent Anadyr, Bilibinsky, Chaunsky and Shmidtovsky squadrons merged on the basis of the Anadyr airport into a single state enterprise Chukotavia. Its branches are the airports of Pevek, Keperveem (Bilibin), Omolon, Cape Schmidt, Gulf of the Cross, Markov, Providence, Lawrence, Beringovsky.
Anadyr Airport is connected by direct flights to Moscow, Magadan and Khabarovsk. At the same time, the capital of the district is connected with Moscow by flights of two airlines, on which comfortable Boeing-747 and IL-62 aircraft fly. There are flights to Omsk, and in the summer to airports in the south of Russia. Mi-8 helicopters and Mi-26 cargo helicopters fly to the district center, mining villages and national villages of the district. Pilots of Chukotavia serve An-3, An-24, An-26 aircraft on domestic routes, they have mastered the An-74. In recent years, purely peaceful, but famous Ruslans, the Mi-26 Ministry of Emergency Situations helicopter, and other winged and rotary-winged equipment have landed at the airport to replace Cold War era combat aircraft.
Somewhat earlier, in 1990, the Anadyr-Anchorage international air line was opened. And in April 2002, Anadyr Airport was given international status. At the end of 2005, during the celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, a new terminal complex was opened at Anadyr Airport.

Abandoned villages of Chukotka: Coal Mines. General information What is a mine about coal