Evenksk

Evenksk lies in the country of the Bolshaya Garmanda, a river descending from the Kolyma Highlands to Nayakhan Bay on the Sea of Okhotsk. Its lower course reaches the coastal plain and forms an estuary. Even and Koryak people travelled through this northeastern country in small groups before Russian expansion reached the region in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The river links the coast with the mountain valleys inland.