Summer smells ice

In early July, billionaire Roman Abramovich resigned chairman of the Duma of the Chukotka. He held this post for five years, and before that eight years - from 2000 to 2008, the second - was the governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, where about 50 thousand people. Today Chukotka, where up to nine months of the year winter is one of the least criminogenic regions of the country and the region with the highest average salary - it is 65 thousand rubles. True, the cost of living there is the highest: in Anadyr in 2012 she, according to Rosstat, the average cost of living is higher than in Russia as a 1, 75 times, and the administrative center of Bilibino - more than twice. Take a look, how to live one of the most remote regions of Russia today. Photos by Alexander Sorin and Max Novikov.

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