Public Health Practice Report: water supply and sanitation in Chukotka and Yakutia, Russian Arctic

Figures & data

Table 1. Demographic features of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and Yakutia Republic, 2015 (adapted from [9,10]).

	Chukotka Autonomous Okrug	Yakutia Republic
Territory, km^2	721,5 km^2	3083,5 km^2
Districts, number	6	36
Inhabited localities, number	44	641
Largest city, population	Anadyr – 14,900	Yakutsk – 303,800
Population total	50,160	959,700
Population density, people/km^2	0.07	0.31
Urban population (% of the total)	34,720 (69%)	627,750 (65.4%)
Rural population (% of the total)	15,440 (31%)	331,950 (34.6%)
Indigenous population groups:
people (% of the total)	Chukchi – 12,800 (25.3%)	Yakut – 467,000 (49.9%)
people (% of the total)	Eskimo (Inuit) – 1,500 (3%)	Evenk – 21,000 (2.2%)
people (% of the total)	Even – 1,400 (2.8%)	Even – 15,100 (1.6%)
people (% of the total)	Chuvants – 900 (1.8%)
Non-indigenous population:
Russians, people (% of the total)	25,100 (49.6%)	353,700 (37.8%)
Ukraine, people (% of the total)	2,900 (5.7%)	20,300 (2.2%)

Figure 1. Map of eastern Russia (open access), showing the location of the Yakutia Republic and Chukotka Autonomous Okrug.

Figure 2. Water supply and sewerage in Chukotka and Yakutia, % of inhabited localities, 2014–2016 (created using [11,12,17]).

Table 2. Number and share of inhabited localities with water pipe and sewerage in Yakutia (adapted from [12]).

Inhabited localities^a	Total number in Yakutia	Number with piped water	% of water piped	Number with piped sewerage	% with sewerage
Cities	13	12	92.3	8	61.5
Townships	42	36	85.7	24	57.1
Villages	586	48	8.2	5	0.9
Totally	641	96	15	37	5.8

^aCities are larger than townships are larger than villages (determination is made at the regional level).

Table 3. Characteristics of housing water supply and sanitation in Yakutia, 2015 (adapted from [13]).

% of housing	Yakutia republic (%)	Yakutsk city (%)
In-home running water	53.3	79.7
In-home sewerage	52.3	76
In-home hot running water	50.6	72.6

Table 4. Share of housing in the cities with centralised in-home sewerage, Yakutia – 2013 (from [14]).

Cities	Total population number, 1,000 people	% of houses with in-home sewerage
Yakutsk	303.8	76.0%
Neryungri	57.8	35.4%
Mirnyi	34.8	68.7%
Lensk	23.7	31.0%
Aldan	20.9	34.2%
Vilyuisk	10.7	0
Nyurba	9.9	0
Olekminsk	9.2	0
Pokrovsk	9.1	26.0%
Srednekolymsk	3.5	0

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