Ust-Omchug Усть-Омчуг | |
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 Ust-Omchug, September 2004 | |
Location of Ust-Omchug  | |
  Ust-Omchug Location of Ust-Omchug Show map of Russia Ust-Omchug Ust-Omchug (Magadan Oblast) Show map of Magadan Oblast | |
| Coordinates:61°09′N149°38′E / 61.150°N 149.633°E /61.150; 149.633 | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Magadan Oblast |
| Administrative district | Tenkinsky District |
| Population | |
• Total | 3,914 |
• Estimate (1 January 2017)[2] | 3,273 |
| Time zone | UTC+11 (MSK+8  [3]) |
| Postal code(s)[4] | 686050 |
| OKTMO ID | 44716000051 |
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Ust-Omchug (Russian:Усть-Омчуг) is anurban locality (anurban-type settlement) and theadministrative center ofTenkinsky District ofMagadan Oblast,Russia, located at the 271-kilometer (168 mi) mark of the highway to the northwest ofMagadan. Population:3,914 (2010 Census);[1]4,867 (2002 Census);[5]11,343 (1989 Soviet census).[6]
Urban-type settlement status was granted to Ust-Omchug in 1953.
Some 56 kilometers (35 mi) north from the settlement there are couple of other abandoned settlements that once were part of the TenLag. They areButugichag and Lower Butugichag. The settlements were part of the Soviet correctional system ofGULAG.
There is an ore-mining and processing plant, a mining equipment repair shop, a timber industry company, and a poultry farmingsovkhoz.
Ust-Omchug has a very coldsubarctic climate (Köppen climate classificationDfc). Winters are prolonged and very cold, with up to eight months of sub-zero maximum dailytemperatures, such that thesoil remains permanently frozen.Permafrost andtundra cover most of the region. Average temperatures range from −32.6 °C (−26.7 °F) in January to +12.7 °C (54.9 °F) in July.
| Climate data for Ust-Omchug | |||||||||||||
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| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −32.6 (−26.7) | −31.2 (−24.2) | −24.2 (−11.6) | −13.4 (7.9) | −3.3 (26.1) | 8.4 (47.1) | 12.7 (54.9) | 9.1 (48.4) | 1.2 (34.2) | −12.5 (9.5) | −26.2 (−15.2) | −32.4 (−26.3) | −12.0 (10.4) |
| Averageprecipitation mm (inches) | 15 (0.6) | 13 (0.5) | 7 (0.3) | 13 (0.5) | 28 (1.1) | 46 (1.8) | 67 (2.6) | 60 (2.4) | 48 (1.9) | 38 (1.5) | 24 (0.9) | 16 (0.6) | 375 (14.7) |
| Averagerelative humidity (%) | 69.4 | 69.6 | 74.5 | 80.7 | 82.4 | 69.9 | 68.0 | 74.7 | 80.8 | 80.2 | 74.4 | 69.6 | 74.5 |
| Source 1:NASA RETScreen Database | |||||||||||||
| Source 2:Climate-data.org | |||||||||||||
