Travel Guide Koriakie (Корякский Ао)

The Koryak district, established in 1930, became independent from Russia in 1993.Occupying the northern part of Kamchatka and the southern part of the Chukchi Peninsula, the autonomous district of Des is bathed in Bering Seas and Okhotsk. The predominant mountainous terrain is represented by the Koriakski plateau (2 562 m) and part of the Kolymski plateau. Vegetation is that of cut tundra tundra and tundra.The region, whose soils are permanently frozen, has a subarctic climate. Average January temperatures vary between - 24 ° C and - 26 ° C, with July between + 10 ° C and + 14 ° C. The Pengina River, the largest in the District, is navigable. The Aboriginal ethnic groups in the Koryak district have always been divided into two groups: that of nomads who live in reindeer and that of the sedentary, living on fishing and hunting at sea. Boarding schools were opened for the children of nomadic livestock farmers.The district economy relies essentially on its fishing industry. A factory (Oloutorskaïa) for reindeer skins produces articles in deer.