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Vanavara (rural locality)

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Vanavara Ванавара
Selo[1]
Location of Vanavara
Vanavara Location of Vanavara Show map of Russia Vanavara Vanavara (Krasnoyarsk Krai) Show map of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Coordinates: 60°20′40″N 102°17′00″E / 60.34444°N 102.28333°E / 60.34444; 102.28333
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Krasnoyarsk Krai[1]
Founded	1932
Population  (2010 Census)[1]
• Total	3,153
Administrative status
• Subordinated to	Evenkiysky District[1]
Time zone	UTC+7 (MSK+4 [2])
Postal code(s)[3]	648490
OKTMOID	04650459101

Vanavara (Russian: Ванава́ра) is a rural locality (aselo) in Evenkiysky DistrictofKrasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Podkamennaya Tunguska River at the mouth of the local Vanavarki River. Population: 3,153 (2010 Russian census);^[1] 3,313 (2002 Census);^[4] 5,697 (1989 Soviet census).^[5]

Vanavara is notable for being the nearest populated place to the site of the 1908 Tunguska event.

The locality, also occasionally named Anavar (Анавар), as it exists today was founded in 1932 as a base for herders, hunters, and fishermen, as well as a location for a weather station.^[6]

Aplane crash occurred on September 26, 1994, when a plane flying from KrasnoyarsktoTura had diverted to Vanavara Airport due to bad weather: on running out of fuel the crew then attempted an emergency landing on the bank of the Chamba River 41 km from Vanavara centre. All twenty-four passengers and four crew died in the crash.^[7]

On December 10, 2010, an explosion occurred in a boiler in the heating plant in Vanavara. A fireman was killed in the incident and heating was cut off for 720 houses, forcing the temporary evacuation of many children to Krasnoyarsk.^[8][9]

The locality is served by Vanavara Airport.^[10]

Vanavara has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc). Winters are severely cold with average temperatures from −34.5 to −22.7 °C (−30.1 to −8.9 °F) in January, while summers are warm with average temperatures from +10.2 to +24.9 °C (50.4 to 76.8 °F). Precipitation is moderate and is somewhat higher in summer than at other times of the year.