Inchoun

The name of the village comes from the Chukchi word I'nchuvin, meaning "a cut-off nose tip". This strange appellation is derived from a nearby cliff with a large rock at its base that is said to look like a nose cut from a face.Strogoff, p.120 There is a Chukchi dancing troupe in the village called Vyrykvyn.

Excavations carried out by the Museum of Chukotka Heritage Centre and the State Museum of Northern Art at the Palpeygak ({{langx|ru|Пальпейгак}}) site (named after a nearby eponymous creek) revealed finds indicating that the area had been inhabited for the last 3000 years[http://chukotraion.ru/places/index.html Муниципальное образование сельское поселение Инчоун] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100725193523/http://chukotraion.ru/places/index.html |date=2010-07-25 }} Municipal Formation of the Rural Settlement of Inchoun - Official Website of Chukotsky District]

In 1945 Inchoun had the best Soviet reading rooms in the Okrug. In the 1950s, construction began on wooden houses in the village and by 1957, the first nine families moved out of their Yaranga and into these new houses.

The population of the village as of 2009 was 398 an increase on the estimate in 2008 of 365, which itself was down from the figure given in March 2003 of 373 (of which 353 were indigenous peoples).Red Cross of Chukotka. [https://web.archive.org/web/20071007093855/http://redcross-chukotka.ru/English/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=16 Chukotsky District] (Archived) The official census results indicate a slight reduction on the 2009 estimate to 387, of whom 185 were male and 202 female.

Inchoun is 150 miles from the district centre Lavrentiya and is not connected to any other part of the world by permanent road. However, there is a small network of roads within the settlement including:[http://www.pochtovik.su/rosindex/87/87007000002.htm Pochtovik Mail Delivery Service]{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Inchoun - Chukotsky District {{in lang|ru}}

• Улица Ачиргина (Ulitsa Achyrgyna)
• Улица Коммунистическая (Ulitsa Kommunisticheskaya, lit. Communist Street)
• Улица Морзверобоев (Ulitsa Morzveroboyev, li. Walrus-hunting Brigade Street)
• Улица Тенетегина (Ulitsa Tenetegina)
• Улица Центральная (Ulitsa Tsentralnaya, lit. Central Street)
• Улица Шипина (Ulitsa Shipina)
• Улица Школьная (Ulitsa Shkolnaya, lit. School Street)

Inchoun has a Tundra climate (ET)McKnightand Hess, pp.235-7 because the warmest month has an average temperature between {{convert|0|°C|°F|abbr=on}} and {{convert|10|°C|°F|abbr=on}}.

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|Jan record high C=4.7

|Feb record high C=5.5

|Mar record high C=3.9

|Apr record high C=6.4

|May record high C=10.5

|Jun record high C=18.4

|Jul record high C=22.7

|Aug record high C=22

|Sep record high C=16.3

|Oct record high C=12

|Nov record high C=8.7

|Dec record high C=10

|year record high C=22.7

|Jan high C=-17.9

|Feb high C=-16.7

|Mar high C=-15.8

|Apr high C=-9.1

|May high C=-0.7

|Jun high C=5.6

|Jul high C=10

|Aug high C=9.2

|Sep high C=5.4

|Oct high C=0.5

|Nov high C=-4.7

|Dec high C=-13.9

|year high C=-4

|Jan low C=-23.9

|Feb low C=-22.8

|Mar low C=-22.3

|Apr low C=-15.2

|May low C=-4.6

|Jun low C=1

|Jul low C=4.8

|Aug low C=4.8

|Sep low C=2.2

|Oct low C=-3

|Nov low C=-9.8

|Dec low C=-19

|year low C=-9

|Jan record low C=-44.1

|Feb record low C=-41.5

|Mar record low C=-41.4

|Apr record low C=-31.1

|May record low C=-24.5

|Jun record low C=-5.6

|Jul record low C=-4.7

|Aug record low C=-2.7

|Sep record low C=-6.1

|Oct record low C=-19.9

|Nov record low C=-33.6

|Dec record low C=-41.2

|year record low C=-44.1

|Jan rain mm=19

|Feb rain mm=20

|Mar rain mm=13.8

|Apr rain mm=18.1

|May rain mm=18.8

|Jun rain mm=15.1

|Jul rain mm=40.4

|Aug rain mm=46.2

|Sep rain mm=35.9

|Oct rain mm=45.4

|Nov rain mm=28.8

|Dec rain mm=18.4

|year rain mm=319.9

|Jan snow days=14

|Feb snow days=12

|Mar snow days=11

|Apr snow days=15

|May snow days=13

|Jun snow days=3

|Jul snow days=0

|Aug snow days=0

|Sep snow days=4

|Oct snow days=17

|Nov snow days=20

|Dec snow days=15

|year snow days=124

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File:Inchoun 1 2013-08-02.jpg| Inchoun Village (Chukchi Sea, Russia;
66°17’56‘‘N, 170°17‘6‘‘W)

File:Inchoun 2 2013-08-02.jpg|Inchoun Village, schoolhouse

File:Inchoun 3 2013-08-02.jpg|Inchoun Village

File:Inchoun 4 2013-08-02.jpg|Inchoun Village

• List of inhabited localities in Chukotsky District

{{Reflist}}

• {{cite book | author1=McKnight, Tom L | author2=Hess, Darrel | year=2000 | chapter=Climate Zones and Types | title=Physical Geography: A Landscape Appreciation | location=Upper Saddle River, NJ | publisher=Prentice Hall | isbn=0-13-020263-0 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/physicalgeographmckn }}
• {{RussiaAdmMunRef|chu|adm|law}} {{in lang|ru}}
• {{RussiaAdmMunRef|chu|mun|list|chukotsky}} {{in lang|ru}}
• Strogoff, M, Brochet, P-C and Auzias, D. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ogRsocK2wBQC&dq=petit+fute+chukotka&pg=PA1 Petit Futé: Chukotka], "Avant-Garde" Publishing House, 2006.

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Category:Rural localities in Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Category:Chukchi Sea