Varnek
{{Short description|Village on Vaygach Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug}}
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Varnek is a village on Vaygach Island of Zapolyarny District, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It had a population of 101 as of 2010, an increase from its population of 94 in 2002.
Geography
Varnek is located on the southern coast of Vaygach Island.
History
In 1921, zinc-lead ores were found in the area, so a mine was established where prisoners of the Gulag worked.{{cite web | url=https://www.kp.ru/daily/27017.5/4079685/ | title=Варнек. Ржавые бочки, боевые лебеди и пулемет Эйхманса | date=19 August 2019 }} The settlement was established in the first half of the 1930s, named after Alexander Ivanovich Varnek, a Russian explorer of the Arctic. Varnek was the last village in Nenets Autonomous Okrug to be able to get phone calls, being introduced in 2011.{{cite web |url=http://www.ec-arctic.ru/index.html?news_id=1585&page=4 |title=Арктика, полюс, северный, южный, вездеход, антарктида, путешествие экспедиционный центр |website=www.ec-arctic.ru |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610224014/http://www.ec-arctic.ru/index.html?news_id=1585&page=4 |archive-date=10 June 2015 |url-status=dead}}
Climate
Varnek has a subarctic climate (Dfc).