Tags: russia (7 pics) Provideniya (Russian: Провиде́ния) is an urban-type settlement situated on Komsomolskaya Bay, part of Provideniya Bay in the northeastern part of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It is located across the Bering Strait from Alaska, and is very close to the International Date Line. The town is served by Provideniya Bay Airport, the closest Russian airport to the United States. Population: 2,723 (2002 Census); 5,432 (1989 Census).. Provideniya is the head of the Providensky District. History For British, Russian, and American use of the harbor in the ninteenth and early twentieth centuries see Providence Bay, Siberia. Provideniya is a former Soviet military port, sited on a fjord sheltered from the Bering Sea. The largest settlement east of Anadyr, it was established in the 1930 (82 years ago) as the port to serve the eastern end of the Northern Sea Route. The port is found in Komsomolskaya Bay (named after the Soviet Komsomol youth organisation), a branch of the much larger Provideniya Bay, providing a suitable deep water harbor for Russian ships, close to the southern limits of the winter ice fields. High-sprung transports connect the town's concrete slabbed main street with outlying settlements along the fjord and coast. There is a technical school, one functioning cinema, a post office, a museum of Chukotka history and culture, a bakery complex and port facilities.

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