Taskan
Таскан
View of Taskan in 2019
View of Taskan in 2019
Taskan is located in Magadan Oblast
Taskan
Taskan
Taskan is located in Russia
Taskan
Taskan
Coordinates: 62°59′11″N 150°19′43″E / 62.98639°N 150.32861°E / 62.98639; 150.32861
CountryRussia
Federal subjectMagadan Oblast
DistrictYagodninsky District
Population
 (2021)
  Total0
Time zoneUTC+11:00

Taskan (Russian: Таскан) was a rural locality in Yagodninsky District, Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East.

There is a road leading to Yagodnoye to the southwest of Taskan and another to Elgen to the southeast.[1]

Geography

This abandoned settlement is located in the Upper Kolyma Highlands by the confluence of the Mylga and the Taskan, a left tributary of the Kolyma that flows from the Chersky Range.[2]

History

Taskan was established in the 1930s. In the 1940s, there was a food processing factory which employed mostly prisoners. In the 1960s, the first two-story wooden buildings were built, as the economy began to develop. By 1993, the population had risen to about 850 inhabitants and there was a state farm that specialized in animal husbandry and the growing of vegetables. The population fell rapidly after the collapse of the USSR and only a residual population remained. According to the 2010 census only 30 people lived in Taskan.[3] Finally the settlement was abolished in 2019.[4]

Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904 - 1977), a Soviet author, served a term in Taskan as a nurse during her imprisonment in the 1940s under Stalin's regime.

See also

References

  1. Google Earth
  2. "Топографска карта O-56; M 1:1 000 000 - Topographic USSR Chart (in Russian)". Retrieved 25 March 2022.
  3. Оценка численности постоянного населения Магаданской области на 1 января 2009-2013 годов
  4. История поселков Центральной Колымы.pdf
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