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A map of the Magadan area, showing the western part of the Koni Peninsula, lower right Satellite view of the Koni Peninsula. The Koni Peninsula projects into the Sea of Okhotsk in Magadan Oblast, in the Russian Far East, and has an area of 103,434 hectares. [1] Its north-western shores are on the Taui Bay.
Magadan (Russian: Магадан, IPA: [məɡɐˈdan]) is a port town and the administrative centre of Magadan Oblast, Russia.The city is located on the isthmus of the Staritsky Peninsula by the Nagaev Bay; it serves as a gateway to the Kolyma region.
Magadan Oblast was established on December 3, 1953 [12] in what had popularly been known as Kolyma.As a result of considerable raw resources, especially gold, silver, tin, and tungsten deposits, mining activities and road building had been developed during the Stalin era in the 1930s and 1940s under the coordination of Dalstroy and its forced labor camps.
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The settlement lies in the south-eastern section of the Chersky Range, on the left bank of the Debin, a tributary of the Kolyma, by the mouth of the stream Yagodny.The oblast capital of Magadan lies approximately 340 km to the south-east in a direct line, although it is over 550 km by road.
An enlargeable topographic map of Germany. Geography of Germany is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.