Ust-Avam

The village was first founded in 1937. During World War II, the village's inhabitants participated in the war effort by providing the Red Army with money, food, warm clothing and fur. In 1967, the Avamo-Nganasan Village Council was renamed the Ust-Avam Village Council, and the local collective farm merged with the Volochansky state farm. In 1971, a factory, which specialised in making products with raw materials obtained by wild reindeers hunting (meat, antlers and leather) was built, attracting workers from all over the Soviet Union. In 2020, an oil spill at a Nornickel power plant near Norilsk, poisoned tugunok fish - an important traditional food source - in the region. In September that year, Lake Pyasino was declared “dead” as a result of the spill. The Aborigen Forum (Ru Абориген-Форум), an indigenous peoples' advocacy group, led a social media campaign calling on Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, to boycott nickel sourced to Nornickel. == Culture ==

In Ust-Avam, native Siberian cultural practices and norms are still present and widespread, with hunting being a primary example. == Infrastructure ==

The village has a secondary school, a kindergarten, a doctor's surgery, a library, a bakery and a post office. Sewerage and water supplies are provided only by the school. The power supply of the village is provided by 4 diesel power plants. Travel is facilitated by light aircraft with regular flights to neighboring Volochanka. In 1968, a group of Norilsk tourists took a ski trip from Ust-Avam to Talnakh. ==Climate==

Located in the tundra, Ust-Avam sits on the right bank of the Avam river in the North Siberian Lowland. According to the Köppen climate classification, the climate is subarctic. The average annual temperature -11.4 °C, with the average temperature of the coldest month (January) being -30.9 °C and that of the warmest month (July) being 11.5 °C. The annual average precipitation is 347 mm, with the rainiest season between June and October (the average rainfall in August is 49 mm). Ust-Avam is in the Krasnoyarsk Time Zone, seven hours ahead of UTC (UTC+07:00) and 4 hours ahead of Moscow Time (MSK+4). ==Population and demographics==

In the 2010 census, the population of Ust-Avam was recorded as 513. In 2017, this had fallen to 336. In this year, the ethnic composition was recorded as: In 2018, the population had risen to 339 according to a report into socioeconomic development in the Dudinka region. ==References==