This is a web site designed to help you learn about this remarkable region of Russia, so different from what we usually think of as the "typical" Russia. Chukotka is a land of reindeer herders and sea mammal hunters, gold mining and retail trade, political struggles for sovereignty, indigenous peoples' struggles for equality, rich natural resources and staggering poverty. It is a region that has undergone rapid social change in the last couple of decades.

Map of Chukotka
The Chukchi Language (includes sound recordings)
Facts about the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
Anadyr', the capital city of Chukotka (from fieldwork 1995 to 2001)
Snezhnoe, a village on the Anadyr' River (from fieldwork 1996 & 1998)
Kaiettyn, an obshchina in Bilibiniskii District (from fieldwork 2000)
Humanitarian Aid Efforts in Chukotka
"Doverie" -- The "Confidence" Society -- Chukotka's Indigenous Sobriety Movement
About the author of this page

Planning to walk, swim, kayak, sail, or fly across the Bering Strait from Alaska to Chukotka? Would you like to walk, cycle, motorcycle, drive, or snowmobile across Chukotka? Before you dream any further, you'd better get a dose of reality so that you don't end up in jail like Karl Bushby did. Angus Adventures has an excellent primer on the near impossibility - not physical, but legal and bureaucratic - of crossing the Bering Strait from Alaska into Russia. Chukotka's own official website has a very clear explanation of what kinds of permits and permissions you will need to enter and travel within Chukotka.

Did you ever live in Bilibino, Anadyr', or Pevek? Would you like to contact other people from those cities? There is a website that serves as a forum for former Chukotka residents to find one another at http://nordost.bzon.ru/

Learn more about Chukotka from published sources

Links to other sites about Chukotka

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