Coat of arms Flag Time zone KRAT (UTC+07:00) Local time Wednesday 12:52 AM | Population (2010 Census) 676 inhabitants Founded 1915 Number of airports 1 | |
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Weather -22°C, Wind W at 14 km/h, 73% Humidity | ||
Dikson (Russian: Диксон) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is a port on the Kara Sea, located on a headland at the mouth of the Yenisei Gulf (the Yenisei River estuary), on Russia's Arctic Ocean coast. As of the 2010 Census, its population was 676.
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Map of Dikson, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, 647340
Location
Dikson is the northernmost port in Russia, one of the northernmost settlements in the world, and the northernmost settlement on the Asian continent. It is located so far north that one may experience complete darkness with no civil twilight from the 8th of December to the 5th of January. In most major settlements north of the Arctic Circle, there is still substantial twilight during the polar night at midday. It is also one of the most isolated settlements in the world.
Dikson's inhabitants informally call their settlement a "Capital of the Arctic", a name taken from a popular Soviet song.
The urban-type settlement of Dikson, as well as Dikson Island, were named after Swedish Arctic pioneer Baron Oscar Dickson. Dickson, along with Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov, was the patron of a number of early Arctic expeditions, including Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's Russian Arctic explorations.
Population
Unlike the rest of Russia, children under the age of 12 make up 20% of the population. In the rest of Russia, this number is 15%
Climate
Dikson has an arctic climate (Köppen ET).