Located on the shores of the cold Sea of Okhotsk, the city of Magadan is a major port, and at the same time one of the largest Russian populations from Europe. The majestic hills rise around the city buildings, and indeed the nature here is amazingly beautiful. The city itself is quite young, and it is developing at a rather unhurried pace due to its geographical distance.
For 2018 a little less than 100 thousand people live here. Many familiar products in Magadan are more expensive than in Moscow, because they have to be delivered here first, and this is not a long way. This city bears the unofficial title of “the capital of Kolyma”. You can get to Magadan either by plane or by car. The trains do not go here, and only cargo arrives on ships coming to the Magadan port – there are no passenger flights here. Locals often call the central part of Russia “the mainland”.
Magadan Oblast is one of the least densely populated in Russia, despite the fact that it occupies the 11th place in terms of area among all the subjects of the Russian Federation. Despite the cold climate, the city has a lot of fountains. It operates the company “MagBurger”, very reminiscent of “McDonald’s”. “McDonald’s” here, by the way, no. Almost all cars that ride around Magadan and the region are used right-hand drive vehicles from Japan.
In Magadan, a monument to Vladimir Vysotsky. Because of mediocre transport accessibility, car hijackings are practically absent here – they simply have nowhere to put them here, and on the only road leading into the main part of Russia there are many police posts. In Magadan, the temperature has never been lower than -34.6 degrees, since the proximity of the sea contributes to a more or less mild climate by northern standards. At the same time, in Kolyma or in Yakutia the frosts are much more severe.
The famous singer Michael Krug devoted a lot of songs to this city. In the 70s of the last century, for three years, Mikhail Shufutinsky regularly sang in one of the Magadan restaurants. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, almost a third of the total population dispersed from Magadan within ten years.
