Naukan

Naukan was a Yupik village founded in the 14th century on Cape Dezhnev in far eastern Russia, later becoming an archaeological site after its Soviet-era closure. Once the easternmost settlement on the Eurasian continent, it was home to Naukan-speaking Yupik Inuit and had about 400 residents before they were forced out beginning in 1954 amid fears of military conflict with the United States. The village was formally disbanded on November 20, 1958, and its people were dispersed among other Chukchi and Siberian Yupik communities and cities. Its surviving traces include commemorative monuments, a wooden cross from 1910, and the memory of residents such as researcher and teacher Elizaveta Dobrieva.

Chukchi Autonomous Okrug