Koryak Okrug
{{Short description|Administrative division of Kamchatka, Russia}}
{{Infobox former subdivision
| native_name = Коря́кский о́круг
| conventional_long_name = Koryak Okrug
| common_name = Koryak
| subdivision = Former Okrug
| nation = Russia
| p1 = Far Eastern Krai
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| s1 = Kamchatka Krai
| flag_s1 = Flag of Kamchatka Krai.svg
| image_flag = Flag of Koryakia.svg
| image_coat = Coat of Arms of Koryakia district (Kamchatka oblast).svg
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| image_map = RussiaKoryakia(Within_Modern_Russia).png
| image_map_caption = Location of Koryakia district within Modern Russia.
| capital = Palana
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| year_start = 1931
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| date_end = 1 July
| year_end = 2007
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| today = Russia
∟ Kamchatka Krai
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Koryak Okrug ({{langx|ru|Коря́кский о́круг|Koryakskiy okrug}}; Koryak: {{lang|kpy|Чав’чываокруг}}, Cav’cәvaokrug), or Koryakia ({{langx|ru|Корякия|Koryakiya}}), was an administrative division with a special status within Kamchatka Krai, Russia.[http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=61449;div=LAW;ref=s {{lang|ru|Федеральный конституционный закон №2-ФКЗ от 12 июля 2006 года "Об образовании в составе Российской Федерации нового субъекта Российской Федерации в результате объединения Камчатской области и Корякского автономного округа"]. Статья 5.}} (Federal Constitutional Law #2-FKZ of July 12, 2006 On Creation of a New Federal Subject Within the Russian Federation as a Result of the Merger of Kamchatka Oblast and Koryak Autonomous Okrug. Article 5) {{in lang|ru}} It was a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Kamchatka Oblast) from 1931Chaussonnet, p. 29 until July 1, 2007, when it merged with Kamchatka Oblast. Prior to the merger, it was called Koryak Autonomous Okrug ({{lang|ru|Коря́кский автоно́мный о́круг}}). Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Palana. Population: {{ru-census|p2010=18,759|p2002=25,157|p1989=39,363}}
Demographics
As of the 2002 census, Koryaks constituted about a quarter of the population. At the time, it had the smallest population of all the federal subjects, despite being ranked seventeenth in size, at {{convert|301500|km2|sp=us}}, encompassing part of the northern half of Kamchatka Peninsula.
File:The Soviet Union 1933 CPA 429 stamp (Peoples of the Soviet Union. Koryaks) cancelled.jpg
=Vital statistics=
| class="wikitable" |
| ! width="70pt"|Average population (x 1000)
! width="70pt"|Live births ! width="70pt"|Deaths ! width="70pt"|Natural change ! width="70pt"|Crude birth rate (per 1000) ! width="70pt"|Crude death rate (per 1000) ! width="70pt"|Natural change (per 1000) |
|---|
| 1970
| align="right" | 31 | align="right" | 683 | align="right" | 356 | align="right" | 327 | align="right" | 22.0 | align="right" | 11.5 | align="right" | 10.5 |
| 1975
| align="right" | 33 | align="right" | 706 | align="right" | 374 | align="right" | 332 | align="right" | 21.4 | align="right" | 11.3 | align="right" | 10.1 |
| 1980
| align="right" | 35 | align="right" | 701 | align="right" | 351 | align="right" | 350 | align="right" | 20.0 | align="right" | 10.0 | align="right" | 10.0 |
| 1985
| align="right" | 37 | align="right" | 793 | align="right" | 289 | align="right" | 504 | align="right" | 21.4 | align="right" | 7.8 | align="right" | 13.6 |
| 1990
| align="right" | 38 | align="right" | 635 | align="right" | 342 | align="right" | 293 | align="right" | 16.9 | align="right" | 9.1 | align="right" | 7.8 |
| 1991
| align="right" | 38 | align="right" | 623 | align="right" | 350 | align="right" | 273 | align="right" | 16.6 | align="right" | 9.3 | align="right" | 7.3 |
| 1992
| align="right" | 37 | align="right" | 611 | align="right" | 369 | align="right" | 242 | align="right" | 16.7 | align="right" | 10.1 | align="right" | 6.6 |
| 1993
| align="right" | 34 | align="right" | 459 | align="right" | 433 | align="right" | 26 | align="right" | 13.3 | align="right" | 12.6 | align="right" | 0.8 |
| 1994
| align="right" | 32 | align="right" | 433 | align="right" | 460 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 27
| align="right" | 13.5 | align="right" | 14.3 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 0.8 |
| 1995
| align="right" | 31 | align="right" | 382 | align="right" | 481 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 99
| align="right" | 12.5 | align="right" | 15.8 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 3.2 |
| 1996
| align="right" | 29 | align="right" | 374 | align="right" | 436 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 62
| align="right" | 12.7 | align="right" | 14.8 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 2.1 |
| 1997
| align="right" | 29 | align="right" | 373 | align="right" | 400 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 27
| align="right" | 13.0 | align="right" | 13.9 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 0.9 |
| 1998
| align="right" | 28 | align="right" | 396 | align="right" | 355 | align="right" | 41 | align="right" | 14.2 | align="right" | 12.7 | align="right" | 1.5 |
| 1999
| align="right" | 27 | align="right" | 319 | align="right" | 397 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 78
| align="right" | 11.8 | align="right" | 14.7 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 2.9 |
| 2000
| align="right" | 26 | align="right" | 289 | align="right" | 391 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 102
| align="right" | 11.0 | align="right" | 14.9 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 3.9 |
| 2001
| align="right" | 26 | align="right" | 298 | align="right" | 390 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 92
| align="right" | 11.6 | align="right" | 15.1 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 3.6 |
| 2002
| align="right" | 25 | align="right" | 310 | align="right" | 376 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 66
| align="right" | 12.3 | align="right" | 14.9 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 2.6 |
| 2003
| align="right" | 24 | align="right" | 268 | align="right" | 462 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 194
| align="right" | 11.0 | align="right" | 19.0 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 8.0 |
| 2004
| align="right" | 24 | align="right" | 339 | align="right" | 463 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 124
| align="right" | 14.4 | align="right" | 19.7 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 5.3 |
| 2005
| align="right" | 23 | align="right" | 294 | align="right" | 466 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 172
| align="right" | 12.9 | align="right" | 20.5 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 7.6 |
| 2006
| align="right" | 22 | align="right" | 270 | align="right" | 366 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 96
| align="right" | 12.3 | align="right" | 16.7 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 4.4 |
| 2007
| align="right" | 21 | align="right" | 280 | align="right" | 351 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 71
| align="right" | 13.2 | align="right" | 16.5 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 3.3 |
| 2008
| align="right" | 20 | align="right" | 267 | align="right" | 368 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 101
| align="right" | 13.0 | align="right" | 18.0 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 4.9 |
| 2009
| align="right" | 20 | align="right" | 268 | align="right" | 365 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 97
| align="right" | 13.6 | align="right" | 18.5 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 4.9 |
| 2010
| align="right" | 19 | align="right" | 233 | align="right" | 397 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 164
| align="right" | 12.3 | align="right" | 20.9 | align="right" style="color: red" |
| 8.7 |
=Ethnic groups=
About 50.5% of the total population is indigenous, the Koryaks being the largest such group. They are, however, outnumbered by the ethnic Russians.
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| bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! rowspan="2" | Ethnic ! colspan="2" | 1939 Census ! colspan="2" | 1959 Census ! colspan="2" | 1970 Census ! colspan="2" | 1979 Census ! colspan="2" | 1989 Census ! colspan="2" | 2002 Census ! colspan="2" | 2010 Census ! colspan="2" | 2021 Census | ||||||||
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! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % ! Number ! % | ||||||||
| align="left"| Koryaks
| 6,855 | 27.2%
| 5,010 | 18.2%
| 5,893 | 19.1%
| 5,660 | 16.2%
| 6,572 | 16.5%
| 6,710 | 26.7%
| 5,676 | 30.3%
| 5,215 | 33.4% |
| align="left"| Chukchis
| 1,267 | 5.0%
| 1,062 | 3.9%
| 1,164 | 3.8%
| 1,222 | 3.5%
| 1,460 | 3.7%
| 1,412 | 5.6%
| 1,327 | 7.1%
| 1,022 | 6.6% |
| align="left"| Itelmens
| 801 | 3.2%
| 900 | 3.3%
| 970 | 3.1%
| 1,002 | 2.9%
| 1,179 | 3.0%
| 1,181 | 4.7%
| 948 | 5.1%
| 878 | 5.6% |
| align="left"| Evens
| 714 | 2.8%
| 520 | 1.9%
| 613 | 2.0%
| 476 | 1.4%
| 713 | 1.8%
| 751 | 3.0%
| 743 | 4.0%
| 573 | 3.7% |
| align="left"| Russians
| 13,794 | 54.8%
| 16,674 | 60.6%
| 19,522 | 63.1%
| 22,493 | 64.5%
| 24,773 | 62.0%
| 12,719 | 50.6%
| 8,669 | 46.2%
| 6,728 | 43.1% |
| align="left"| Ukrainians
| 847 | 3.4%
| 1,310 | 4.8%
| 1,186 | 3.8%
| 1,999 | 5.7%
| 2,896 | 7.3%
| 1,029 | 4.1%
| 474 | 2.5%
| 209 | 1.3% |
| align="left"| Others
| 882 | 3.5%
| 2,049 | 7.4%
| 1,569 | 5.1%
| 1,999 | 5.7%
| 2,347 | 5.9%
| 1,355 | 5.4%
| | | 976 | 6.3% |
| align="left"| Total
|colspan="2"|25,160 |colspan="2"|27,525 |colspan="2"|30,917 |colspan="2"|34,850 |colspan="2"|39,940 |colspan="2"|25,157 |colspan="2"|18,759 |colspan="2"|15,601 |
Districts
2006 earthquake
{{Main|2006 Kamchatka earthquakes}}
On April 20, 2006, Kamchatka Peninsula was struck by a major earthquake. The 7.7-magnitude tremor had its epicenter near the village of Tilichiki. The Koryakia branch of the Ministry of Emergency Situations said some area residents were injured but there were no fatalities.
The quake occurred at about noon local time Friday, so residents were awake and not caught in their beds.
The United States Geological Survey reported a series of at least fifty smaller aftershocks in the area and immediately offshore. They ranged from 4.1 to 6.5 magnitudes on the Richter scale.
Bruce Presgrave, a geophysicist with the U.S.G.S. in Colorado, said the quake was relatively shallow. He estimated that about 2,000 people live close enough to the epicenter to have felt its full force.
See also
References
=Notes=
{{Reflist}}
=Sources=
- Chaussonnet, Valerie (1995) Native Cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Arctic Studies Center. Washington, D.C. 112p. {{ISBN|1-56098-661-1}}
{{Geographic Location
|Centre = Koryak Okrug
|North = Bilibinsky District & Anadyrsky District, Chukotka Autonomous Okrug
|Northeast =
|East = Bering Sea
|Southeast =
|South = Sobolevsky District / Bystrinsky District / Ust-Kamchatsky District
|Southwest =
|West = Sea of Okhotsk
|Northwest = Severo-Evensky District, Magadan Oblast
}}
{{Kamchatka Krai}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2013}}
Category:Former federal subjects of Russia
Category:Politics of the Koryak Autonomous Okrug
Category:Geography of Kamchatka Krai
Category:History of the Kamchatka Peninsula
Category:States and territories established in 1931
Category:Countries and territories where Russian is an official language