Pevek is the northmost city of Russia. 25 000 people used to live here, 2 500 have remained… Life in Pevek is expensive and boring. The city has two cafes and one of them will probably close soon… No movie theatres, no night clubs… The city lives from plane to plane that arrive once in 2 weeks. Everyone knows when the next plane arrives, cause it means that fresh food will appear in the shops. Prices here are unbelievably high but an average salary of a waitress, for example, is about 1000 US dollars. According to locals a 3 roomed flat could be changed for a ticket to Moscow…
Some prices are equal to:
Potatoes 2 USD
Wheat 1.66 USD
Dairy butter 4.60 USD
Dry milk 9 USD
Frozen fish 3.30 USD
Sugar 2.60 USD
Apples: 5 USD
Eggs: 6.30 USD …
Streets are empty
House painted bright colors
URALs function instead of buses, in the end of a workday they carry employees home.
Embankment
The city is surrounded with hills
Many buildings got abandoned
“Chaunskaya legal advice office”
Chaunskaya heat station
The seal is sitting in the warm waste water of the municipal sewerage.
The roads are well cleaned
Polar bears are not rare guests here
Pevek
Location: Pevek
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Nothing to whine about. Prices are understandable since nothing grows that far north but what about the fishing industry?
Well, from what I see, venison there is way cheaper than beef or pork here in Moscow. Fish is cheap too. Milk, eggs and butter cost A LOT. However, I’ve heard that people in northern cities have vitamin pills for free.
Wow that is an incredibly depressing place… Way to go to become a developed country :/
what an insightful comment. we need more people like you on this planet.
Pevek IS NOT the northernmost city of Russia, get your facts straight. There are a lot of cities that are located much more north than Pevek.
tell us, which of them?
Tiksi is one.
Dikson, Tiksi, Khatanga, all towns located on the Taymyr penninsula, which is more north than whole Chukotka.
population of Russia is too little…
The city that the gulag built. Better that it disappears.
Capitalism abandons places that don’t make a few industrialists obscenely wealthy; socialism “sees” potential in humanity and natural resources. This place was once a thriving sotsgorod.
you must be a communists
the white bear is called a polar bear in English
Best quote of the day: “The seal is sitting in the warm waste water of the municipal sewerage.”
Mmmmm…warm waste water!
Hey, I also heard this is the place to go if you suffer from depression..
just flew over yesterday..quite a place…looks pretty lonely!!!