What do you think of Uelen (Уэлéн), Chukotka, the eastern-most town in all of Russia? It is over 6...

What do you think of Uelen (Уэлéн), Chukotka, the eastern-most town in all of Russia? It is over 6,500km from Russia's western-most town of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad. But only 60km from Diomede, Alaska - the closest settlement in the US.

As you can see, it's a beach town.

Definitively, Cancun in Russia.

Chukchas live thre

Looks cool.

Why do people do this to themselves?

Looks like a depressing shithole. At least in most of Siberia there's some amazing nature, but that looks just like some barren wasteland.

At least they dont suicide, like koreans do

The nearby landscape is very dramatic, with Arctic hills rising hundreds of meters above the ocean.

These hills are some of the windiest areas in the world, with consistent gusts of 60km/hr blowing for days at a time.

I want to build a submarine and carry illegal immigrants in the United States. But this place is filled with guards and informants FSB.

>be Russian
>alcoholic
>living in that shithole
>not suiciding
Ok

what happend when a tsunami hit?

In the winter, the ocean freezes, and people take their sleds into the ice to hunt seals.

It is still far enough south to provide 2 to 4 hours of daylight during the winter months.

It would be extremely painful.

It's really weird how eastern Russia looks so poor despite being so close to many first world countries and pretty much all of them among the largest economies in the world. The Russian government really should invest more in that portion of Russia.

In Russia you survive or die. Natural selection in action.

More winter scenes:

Probably similar to how Mexico is close to the US but is still poor.

Not really, the smart thing to do if you live in Russia is to either move or kill yourself

>implies that the Russian government gives a shit about the lives of ordinary people

Foggy day in early fall (it's a very foggy town due to ocean conditions):

That place is close to Alaska and Alaska looks exactly the same.

>implying they have the money

Russian government installed new modern trailers to replace old commie trailers a few years ago. I think it's based on the Danish housing model in Greenland towns.

This is old housing, scheduled to be replaced. I think the plan in Chukotka is complete remodel of pre-1960's houses by 2024.

Cliff near the town:

>Great Victory of Russia and Putin God Emperor
Remove the proxy kremlebot

>posting isolated god's forsaken shitholes
Alaska is probably the comfiest state in the USA.

One more reason for Russia to be broken into smaller countries...

>>posting isolated god's forsaken shitholes

>Uelen (Russian: Уэлéн; Chukchi: Увэлeн; Yupik: Улыӄ or Oлыӄ; also known as Whalen in older English-language sources and Ugelen on USCGS charts) is a rural locality (a selo) in the Chukotsky District
>it is the easternmost settlement in Russia and the whole of Eurasia. Uelen is also the closest Russian settlement to the United States. It is on the northeast corner of the Uelen Lagoon, a roughly 15 by 3 kilometres (9 by 2 miles) east-west lagoon separated from the ocean by a sandspit. Municipally, Uelen is subordinated to Chukotsky Municipal District and is incorporated as Uelen Rural Settlement.

>One more reason for Russia to be broken into smaller countries...

Bolsonaro voter detected. Everyone ignore this poster.

A little too bleak.

How the fuck do you know this, posting from the US?

It's a latin american russiaboo vs ameriboo episode

In fact, the northern and eastern areas have the highest number of grants per capita. It is literally the most hellish part of the land of the planet Earth. There trite expensive to live. The extraction of natural resources is 2-3 times more expensive than in warm countries with access to the sea.

What are talking about?

Looks worse desu...
I prefer this one it just needs some maintenance.

Just google about Uelen duh.

Probably a hidden nuclear missile silo and the population are just soldiers waiting for ww3.

How can that survive a tsunami?

Be a real shame if someone were to melt a glacier and raise the sea level.

That you are a retard, of course.

Town faces north, so, unlikely for tsunami wave to hit. Most wave is east/west in that region. North/south wave is not expected.

>Said StarCraft nerd , unable to survive away from the computer.

look what i found in a settlement that even closer on google maps. its called naukan

>naukan
Population: 0

It is not Naukan

Google maps lied

imagine that some people have walked across the bering strait, hopping from ice rafts into another

I've heard sometimes our eskimo go out and snowmobile too far and get escorted back by russian border patrol