Nelemney

Nelemney lies in the country of the forest Yukaghirs along the Yasachnaya, a tributary of the Kolyma. Its name is linked to the nelma, a whitefish that swims upriver to spawn. The river and its tributaries have long provided fishing grounds as well as a home to hunters. In the late eighteenth century the explorer Joseph Billings described a Yukaghir settlement at the meeting of the Nelimnaya and Yasachnaya rivers.