Koryak Okrug

Koryak Okrug (Russian: Коря́кский о́круг, romanized: Korjakskij okrug; Koryak: Чав’чываокруг, Čav’čyvaokrug), or Koryakia (Russian: Корякия, romanized: Korjakija), is an administrative division of Kamchatka Krai, Russia.[1] It was a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Kamchatka Oblast) from 1931[2] until July 1, 2007, when it merged with Kamchatka Oblast. Prior to the merger, it was called Koryak Autonomous Okrug (Коря́кский автоно́мный о́круг). Its administrative center is the urban locality (an urban-type settlement) of Palana. Population: 18,759 (2010 Census);[3] 25,157 (2002 Census);[4] 39,363 (1989 Census).[5]

Flag of Koryak Okrug

Location of Koryak Okrug in Russia in 2005

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 301,500 square kilometers (116,400 sq mi), encompassing part of the northern half of Kamchatka Peninsula.

Vital statistics

	Average population (x 1000)	Live births	Deaths	Natural change	Crude birth rate (per 1000)	Crude death rate (per 1000)	Natural change (per 1000)
1970	31	683	356	327	22.0	11.5	10.5
1975	33	706	374	332	21.4	11.3	10.1
1980	35	701	351	350	20.0	10.0	10.0
1985	37	793	289	504	21.4	7.8	13.6
1990	38	635	342	293	16.9	9.1	7.8
1991	38	623	350	273	16.6	9.3	7.3
1992	37	611	369	242	16.7	10.1	6.6
1993	34	459	433	26	13.3	12.6	0.8
1994	32	433	460	- 27	13.5	14.3	-0.8
1995	31	382	481	- 99	12.5	15.8	-3.2
1996	29	374	436	- 62	12.7	14.8	-2.1
1997	29	373	400	- 27	13.0	13.9	-0.9
1998	28	396	355	41	14.2	12.7	1.5
1999	27	319	397	- 78	11.8	14.7	-2.9
2000	26	289	391	- 102	11.0	14.9	-3.9
2001	26	298	390	- 92	11.6	15.1	-3.6
2002	25	310	376	- 66	12.3	14.9	-2.6
2003	24	268	462	- 194	11.0	19.0	-8.0
2004	24	339	463	- 124	14.4	19.7	-5.3
2005	23	294	466	- 172	12.9	20.5	-7.6
2006	22	270	366	- 96	12.3	16.7	-4.4
2007	21	280	351	- 71	13.2	16.5	-3.3
2008	20	267	368	- 101	13.0	18.0	-4.9
2009	20	268	365	- 97	13.6	18.5	-4.9
2010	19	233	397	- 164	12.3	20.9	-8.7

Ethnic groups

About 40% of the total population is indigenous, the Koryaks being the largest such group. They are, however, outnumbered by the ethnic Russians.

Ethnic group	1939 Census		1959 Census		1970 Census		1979 Census		1989 Census		2002 Census		2010 Census
	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%	Number	%
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%
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%
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%
Evens	714	2.8%	520	1.9%	613	2.0%	476	1.4%	713	1.8%	751	3.0%	743	4.0%
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%
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%
Others	882	3.5%	2,049	7.4%	1,569	5.1%	1,999	5.7%	2,347	5.9%	1,355	5.4%
Total	25,160		27,525		30,917		34,850		39,940		25,157		18,759

2006 earthquake

Map of Koryakia

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 Russian Office 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

• Machevna Bay

References

Notes

1. [http://base.consultant.ru/cons/cgi/online.cgi?req=doc;base=LAW;n=61449;div=LAW;ref=s 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 Russian)
2. Chaussonnet, p. 29
3. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
4. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian).
5. "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров" [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. 1989 – via Demoscope Weekly.

Sources

• Chaussonnet, Valerie (1995) Native Cultures of Alaska and Siberia. Arctic Studies Center. Washington, D.C. 112p. ISBN 1-56098-661-1