The Siberian village of Lorino, in Chukotsky District of the ChukotkaAutonomous Okrug (Russia).Sovie

The Siberian village of Lorino, in Chukotsky District of the ChukotkaAutonomous Okrug (Russia).Soviet military watchtower.An armoured military personnel carrier drives down the street.Electrical plant.Smoke stack of the electrical plant.A typical single-family house.The fox farm, which has around 300 foxes.A typical Soviet-style apartment building.Lorino is the largest indigenous village in the whole okrug, evenlarger than Lavrentiya, the administrative centre of the district. It is located on the shores of the Bering Sea, on the Mechigmen spit,and is 40.5km away from Lavrentiya.  An unpaved road links Lavrentiyawith Lorino, the only road leading out from Lavrentiya.  The village is inhabited mostly by the Chukchi people.The name comes from lyuren, meaning “found camp” in theChukchi language, and the first mention of Lorino is from the 18thcentury.  The modern village is built on the site of the formerEskimo settlement of Nukak.  It has a tundra climate.Traditional occupations are sea mammal hunting, reindeer herding,fishing, and walrus ivory carving.  People also work for the Russianagricultural enterprise “Keper”, at the Arctic fox breeding farm(established in 1955), and at a processing factory for seafood andmeat canning that opened in 2009.  According to the official census,Lorino’s population was 1,267 in 2010. -- source link

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