Magadan is a northern city with pristine nature. Magadan

General information and history

Magadan is located in the south of the Magadan region, on the coast of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, on the Magadanka River, in the permafrost region. Also on the territory of the urban district flows the Dukcha River, the valley of which is used for agriculture and as a place for recreation for citizens. It is the capital of the Magadan region and a seaport. The area of ​​the city is 295 km².

In 1915, gold was discovered in Kolyma. In 1928, the river valley began to be studied in detail. On Nagaev Bay, where the city now stands, it was decided to build a port and from there start a road to the mines. The following year, construction of housing and infrastructure began. This is how the village of Magadan appeared, which ten years later received city status, and in 1954 became the capital, economic, cultural, administrative and scientific center of the region of the same name.

In 1932, the North-Eastern forced labor camp (other names USVITL, Sevvostlag) was formed, which existed until 1951. Its prisoners worked on the industrial development of Kolyma.

Districts of Magadan

Magadan is divided into such areas as: 7th worker, 31st quarter, Avtotek, Pea field, Zvezda, Pasta factory, Marchekan, Nagaevo, Novaya Veselaya, New center, OPRS, Pioneer, Prigorodny, Industrial zone, Prostokvashino (95- quarter), Luksa Street Area, Flotskaya Street Area, Solnechny, Staraya Veselaya, Center, Shanghai and Yama.

Population of Magadan for 2017 and 2018. Number of residents of Magadan

Data on the number of city residents are taken from the Federal State Statistics Service. The official website of the Rosstat service is www.gks.ru. The data was also taken from the unified interdepartmental information and statistical system, the official website of EMISS www.fedstat.ru. The website publishes data on the number of residents of Magadan. The table shows the distribution of the number of residents of Magadan by year; the graph below shows the demographic trend in different years.

Graph of population changes in Magadan:

The population of the city in 2014 was approximately 94.3 thousand, which placed it in 182nd place in the list of Russian cities. Population density - 319.81 people/km².

In recent years, there has been an increase in the birth rate in Magadan, in contrast to the 90s, when there was a decline in this parameter, and many city residents flew to Central Russia. Then the number of townspeople fell by almost a third. It must be said that many Magadan residents who left then subsequently returned back.

Since 2008, the mortality rate has become less than the birth rate. And since 2004, the number of city residents moving to other regions of Russia has fallen. But compared to those leaving from other regions of our state, it remained high.

The number of city residents of working age is approximately 69 thousand, older - approximately 16.7 thousand, and younger - approximately 16.8. For every thousand men aged 15 to 72 years, there are 1,089 women. And if we take city residents aged 16 to 29 years, for every thousand men there are 998 women.

The average age of residents is 36.7 years.

Representatives of the following peoples live in Magadan: Russians - 84.1%, Ukrainians - 6.5%, Evens - 1.7%, Tatars - 0.9%, Belarusians - 0.8%, Koryaks - 0.6% , Itelmens - 0.4%, Kamchadals and Chukchis - 0.2% each, Yukaghirs - 0.05% and Chuvans 0.04%.

Ethnic names: Magadan, Magadan, Magadan.

Magadan city photo. Photo of Magadan

Information about the city of Magadan on Wikipedia:

Link to Magadan website. You can get a lot of additional information by reading it on the official website of Magadan, the official portal of Magadan and the government.
Official website of Magadan

Map of the city of Magadan. Magadan Yandex maps

Created using the Yandex service People's Map (Yandex map), when zoomed out you can understand the location of Magadan on the map of Russia. Magadan Yandex maps. Interactive Yandex map of the city of Magadan with street names, as well as house numbers. The map has all the symbols of Magadan, it is convenient and not difficult to use.

On the page you can read some descriptions of Magadan. You can also see the location of the city of Magadan on the Yandex map. Detailed with descriptions and labels of all city objects.

Reviews about the city Magadan (31)

Alexander School

He lived in the city in 1951-58 as a boy on Parkovaya Street, next to the park, which was called him. Gorky M., studied at school No. 1, which was opposite the city or regional party committee, then one, as far as I understand, on the street. K. Marx, I don’t know for sure.

The house was two-story, made of logs, with two front doors. Lived on the 2nd floor. Where the communal apartment consisted of 8 families, one kitchen. We lived together together, including the boys. On holidays we walked around the kitchen table, which was made there, who would set what. Life was hard, but fun.

I will never forget the blue sky over Nagaev Bay in the spring. A man from Odessa is telling you this, having seen a lot.

Don't forget fishing - on a fine day there was no time to drag the flounder off the hooks. In the summer we occasionally went to the taiga, in my opinion, to the side, then 72 km, now the village. Stekolny, in the clearings of the hills, where lingonberries, where blueberries were collected, where mushrooms were. The air is grace, the landscapes are gorgeous. This is presented to you by someone who served in military service in the forests of Latvia (Vainode, Skrunda), also brilliant, but not comparable.

It is clear that the house where he lived is no longer in sight, st. Lenin, in the photo, looks brilliant in comparison with the dirt of the end of April of those years.

The Magadan winter, especially in a blizzard, of course, it was frosty, it was freezing, but in those days they were heating, I’ll tell you what was needed and, what’s amazing, at school, at the skating rink, in the heating room, at home. I only froze to death once, when in the park in winter, I fell from a children's turntable with airplane seats in the park, it looks awkward in a snowdrift, until I got home with a broken right arm. No, I’m lying, the second time, when, in the cabin, you can see MAZ, there were no shuttle buses then, apparently, when I was sent from Stekolny, by hitchhiking, to Magadan. The driver in the sheepskin coat saw him and gave me something to drink, wild stuff, probably diluted alcohol; I don’t remember how he arrived, but he didn’t get sick. This is stated by a man who, like a dog, froze to death in the Arctic Circle in the summer in 1980-85, who went to lead construction teams for part-time jobs in Amderma, Chokurdakh, in the summer.

I was tempted to fly from there to Magadan to take a look at the city, but I didn’t.

And in St. Petersburg it was freezing in the summer, like the wind from the Gulf of Finland, you don’t know where to go.

Magadan doctors back then were competent. I remember, oh, I was seriously ill with measles. He survived, thank them and God.

I can also say the same about my broken arm; they put it in a cast professionally. The hand works according to the classics. This is explained to you by a lover of billiards and table tennis, where the hand and eye work like clockwork.

The only thing that bothered the boy in those years was the lack of fruits and vegetables, canned stew and fish, and powdered potatoes. Milk powder. I remember my father brought a piece of frozen milk under his arm - it was a holiday, especially when my mother made ice cream from it, the second holiday when my father brought several boxes of Chinese apples, outrageously large and just as green.

And I remember everything well, and I also studied in the 2nd school. We lived on Proletarskaya Street, house 34 b, now, probably, there is no such thing. They left in 1962. But I still feel drawn to Magadan, and sometimes even feel melancholy. Alexander wrote about life and everyday life, as if about me. That's how it was.

Teterin Peter

Lived in Magadan from 1962 to 1988. At this time, Magadan was quickly getting upset. During this time, the Magadangorstroy trust was built. Schools 11, 18 and 7. House of Communications. Houses near the television tower. Seaport - berths 5 and 6. Airport at 54 km. Swimming pool and much more. The trust had excellent builders and managers - Vitels, Raisky, Evdokimov. The last time we all visited Magadan was for the 50th anniversary, we were invited like old builders. I will remember this for the rest of my life. We visited our buildings, met with city leaders, and went fishing for Armani. Memories of Magadan are constantly in our minds, and every year on August 31, our Magadan residents meet at the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. People our age are passing away, but young Magadan residents have great respect for those people who explored the Far North. And good health and happiness to all of them. Bloom, my Magadan!

VLADIMIR

Although I was not born in Magadan, I consider it my second homeland: I lived there with my parents from 1954 to 1979. Our house was located in Shkolny Lane, two steps from the regional drama theater. Gorky, and nearby was school No. 1, where I had the opportunity to study until the sixth grade. He left Magadan to serve in the SA, and after returning he worked at various enterprises in the city, including the regional drama theater as a recording engineer. Here I met my wife and in 1967 our eldest son, Yuri, was born. Now I live in the Altai Republic, but I still miss this unique city.

Lived in Magadan from 1991 to 2006. I studied at 14, then at 13 school. Now I live in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

How this harsh and beautiful land attracts me. Beautiful nature, cold and threatening sea. What kind of people? Kind, responsive. I catch myself thinking that I really want to go back to Magadan. Eh...

Timofeev Yuri.

I’ve been living in the city since I was 6 months old, I’m 50. I can write a lot of good things and bad things too. There is only one fact - the population is decreasing... There are very few old-timers, I like the modern look of the city less than in the 80-90s.

Natalya Toropova

She left Magadan in 1992. Having arrived in Siberia and realizing the difference in human relationships, I wanted to give up everything and go back. But having turned on their reason and overcome their emotions, they still remained in Siberia. They jokingly said that they changed one link to another. We're used to it. It was harder to get used to people than to the climate. We missed you very much. Having survived the difficult times of the 90s and crossed the line of the 2000s, I was able to save money to come visit my parents on Klepka. My God!!! By touch, somewhere on foot, I climbed not only Klepka, but almost the whole of Magadan - inhaled our sea air deeply. I couldn't breathe. I listened to the cries of seagulls sitting on the roofs of houses. They used to irritate me. The city turned out to be so close and dear that it was hard. In 2008, when I arrived, he was as if I had just left yesterday, he had not changed. It only got worse - shabby. One bus station was depressing, but in 2010-2014 it flourished and became prettier, and it was during this period that the city’s changes for the better were felt. I love you, my Magadan! I love people - a special kind of people. The North has left its mark on them. She lived in Avtotek, in a hole - block 95, in a hostel on the Magadanka embankment, in Nagaevo. There is something to remember.

Vladimir

I accidentally ended up in Magadan in 1916. I myself live in Stavropol; I lived in Norilsk for 14 years. And so, out of the blue, my army friend from training in Vyborg invited me to fly to Magadan - all this pleasure for us, pensioners, cost 15 thousand rubles there and back. Well, how not to use this opportunity? I'm easy on the rise, it's 20 hours to Moscow by bus - Domodedovo - meeting with my friend, waiting for the flight - and almost 8 hours of flight. Landing, Falcon. There are a lot of impressions and all are positive. Magadan residents are wonderful people, like Norilsk residents, they will always help, advise, and if necessary, they will warm you up. I was fishing in Ola, a wonderful place, and the fish was not fish, but raspberries! In general, I am very pleased with this trip and once again became convinced of how huge and rich our country is; it’s a pity that we don’t know how to use these riches to our advantage.

Margarita

Born in Magadan!!! My kindergarten was in Nagaevo, and then school 21)))

I lived with my parents in a one-story barracks in Nagaevo, then they gave me an apartment on Koltsevaya. Only wonderful memories: ice slides, a skating rink, a ski slope, ice holes in the frozen sea to catch fish, many fishermen in sheepskin coats))) They made houses out of snowdrifts, dragged their toys there and played))) And nothing, they didn’t get sick with practically anything, although they came home like snowmen, mittens, knees, collar frozen!!!))) But so happy and satisfied!!!

Lingonberries, cloudberries, honeysuckle - aaaaah!!! What a yummy thing))) And when it’s a warm day (warm - meaning that the sun is shining, there is no fog, and, most importantly, there is no wind), you go to nature, to barbecue, to ski, and in the summer you run to Staraya Veselaya to sunbathe! !! What a thrill it is when you appreciate every warm day and rush not to miss it!)) In general, I really miss Magadan, we moved to the south about 7 years ago. It always seemed like we’d move and live...

But no, we lived right there, in a harsh region, and here we live out a boring life... although we are just turning 40))) Although my husband doesn’t think so, he doesn’t miss Magadan at all, he says that he’s terrified remembers this permafrost!))

In short, who cares!!!

I have been to many regions and cities of our bottomless Motherland for work. Everywhere has its own characteristics and mentality, but Magadan residents, like Muscovites, are a separate caste... arrogant and arrogant towards visiting people. I myself am not a crest or an Asian, I am from the north of the Urals, but I have never met people like here on such a scale. You live separately and stew in your own juices, that’s right - only the descendants of guards and prisoners...

Valentina

“You live separately and stew in your own juice, that’s right - only the descendants of guards and prisoners...”

Unfortunately, you didn't understand. In addition to prisoners, 7.5 thousand people arrived in the region following the Komsomol conscription of 1956. Young people were sent to mines and mines, factories and car depots. Many people came of their own accord: some were motivated by romance, others were attracted by earnings. The selection was natural - those who withstood the tests of the North remained for a long time, while others, after the expiration of the contract, left after 3 years.

This is the first time I’ve heard about the arrogance of Magadan residents. Maybe you behaved incorrectly? Or maybe they hit the visitors. In recent years, a lot of people have come to Magadan.

My children were assigned to Magadan, my son-in-law was from Magadan, and we were from the Krasnodar Territory, so in the summer of 2016 I came to visit them. When I was driving, I expected to see something gray, dirty, dull, but... my delight knows no bounds, I simply fell in love with this city. Yes, I agree that the houses are old and dull, but this, it seemed to me, was the only drawback. Beautiful nature, even the seagulls don’t irritate me at all, but on the contrary, they add some kind of charm, and what fishing... Tickets have been bought, we’ll be arriving in July with my husband!!!

Golden city of Kolyma. It's better to go to the sea than to Magadan. It’s beautiful in the photo, but when you arrive it’s gloomy. Summer never happens. There is constant drizzle coming from the sea. Just horror, not a city. It's better to look at the photo. Looks more beautiful. And those who write here that everything is great there, write about food prices. Or throw out the photo with fruit. Those who live in Magadan are all shocked by the prices. Why lie. Write the truth.

Svetlana

Born in Donetsk, her parents brought her to the North at the age of 6. I lived here for 50 years and now I’ve been living in the Yaroslavl region, Rybinsk, for 10 years, I really miss Magadan, the hills where I picked mushrooms and berries. I remember we were on Jack London Lake, where we were fishing for grayling. And what a beautiful autumn there is, with colorful colors! I have never seen such beauty anywhere else! And what delicious, clean, cold water! In the North, strong-willed people live; weak people whine and try to escape from difficulties. And we lived there, gave birth, raised children, and now they and their grandchildren come to visit us and have no plans to leave it yet!

Valentina

I want to exchange an apartment in Magadan with Lipetsk. Lived in Ust-Srednekan for 31 years. My daughter and grandson are in Magadan, I want to visit them. My apartment is in a new building, 10 years old, 8th floor, warm. I’ve been living here for 7 years, I’m not used to it, I work, but my soul is there, I want to go to the children...

Born in Magadan in May 1946. My mother and my sister Galya left besieged Leningrad in 1943 and traveled to Magadan for more than a year until they received a call from my father and arrived in Magadan at the end of 1944. My sister studied at school No. 1. We first lived on the Commune in a two-story wooden house, then, after the house burned down, we moved to a house opposite the Gornyak cinema, and since 1949 we lived at the address: Lenin Ave., 7. I remember myself from the age of 3 I walked in the yard on my own (!!!), I saw how house No. 5 (corner) was being built, I was friends with the janitor who lived in a small closet under the stairs in our first front door, I went to Magadanka, from the age of 4 I ran alone to the park of culture and recreation. From this age I began to realize that the city was being built and a lot was changing. And my parents weren’t afraid that someone would steal me or take me away. And this is in Magadan!!! In 1951, my parents went on vacation with us, first to Leningrad, then to the seaside in New Athos. While!!! Our living space in Leningrad has been booked since the war!!! And it did not disappear, despite the most difficult stage in the history of the USSR. Today this is even impossible to imagine. Ideas about honor, conscience, and human decency have changed too much.

I remember Leningrad being reborn after the war very vividly. There were still destroyed houses, craters between houses (in the Nevsky district), but the city was being revived. In the spring of 1952, we returned to Magadan and my father was transferred to work in the taiga village of Adygalakh. Taiga, the confluence of two rivers - Adygalakha and Ayan-Uryakh. About 800 kilometers from Magadan.

I still dream about that taiga. I first learned to shoot from a small-caliber rifle in the taiga, but I didn’t like fishing, even though there were great fish in these rivers. At the age of 6 I went to first grade. In one room, one teacher taught the first and third grades, each of which had 6-7 students. I knew how to read and write, so I happily studied in the third grade with half an eye. In December 1952, both my mother and I became seriously ill. After 4 months, my mother and I left “for the mainland” in Alma-Ata. My father stayed to work for another 4 years. And in 1959 we returned to Leningrad for good.

But Magadan and Magadan white nights, crabs in Gertner Bay at low tide, PRINCE berries, black and red currants, blueberries and shiksha, cloudberries and delicious northern rowan - this is unforgettable! And the rhododendrons are in bloom!!! It's forever!

By the way, teachers, drama theater artists, and many specialists who worked in Magadan came to the city from Moscow and Leningrad. And not everything is not of their own free will. Many came at the call to explore the Far North. Both the school and the theater in Magadan were, perhaps, no weaker than in the capital.

There was a lot of hard things, not always fair. But the country’s leadership did a lot to develop the distant outskirts, during the most difficult time in the history of the USSR.

Population:

98,879 people (2009)

Ethnic burial:

Magadans

Timezone:

UTC+11, in summer UTC+12

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Origin of the toponym

Foundation of the city

Dalstroy, GULAG, Sevvostlag

Geographical position

Physiographic characteristics

Geographical position

Population

Economy

Energy

Industry

Internet

Science and education

Transport

Land transport

Air Transport

Mass media

A television

On-air channels

Attractions

Mask of Sorrow

Church buildings

Twin Cities

Interesting Facts

Magadan- a city and port in the northeast of the Russian Federation, the administrative center of the Magadan region. The population of the city is 106.4 thousand people (2009).

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Origin of the toponym

Another version of the origin of the toponym. During campaigns in the Far North, one of the Russian pioneers was an admirer of Mary Magdalene. He built a small chapel named after her (later not preserved). In Hebrew, the word "Magdala" actually sounds like "Magadan"

Foundation of the city

In the twentieth century, in connection with the search for new places for the extraction of precious metals, the interest of the Russian government in Chukotka and the Okhotsk coast increased. Several expeditions were sent to the outskirts of Russia, but no industrial gold was discovered. In 1915, in the Srednekan basin, a lone prospector Shafigulin, nicknamed Boriska, found the first gold in Kolyma. In 1926, the expedition of S.V. Obruchev established favorable geological conditions for the occurrence of this metal.

Two years later, the First Kolyma Expedition of Yu. A. Bilibin marked the beginning of a detailed study of Kolyma. Reliable information about the economy of the region was obtained by the hydrographic expedition of I. F. Molodykh, who recommended Nagaev Bay as convenient for the construction of a port and the starting point for road construction.

On October 13, 1928, the Olsk District Executive Committee decided to build the East Even (Nagaevskaya) cultural base, and on June 22, 1929, construction began on the assembly of residential buildings, a school, a veterinary center, a hospital and a boarding school building.

The village of Magadan on the site of the city was founded in 1929, it became a city on July 14, 1939, and since 1954 it has been the regional center of the Magadan region. In 1930-1934 it was the center of the Okhotsk-Even national district.

When demobilized soldiers of the Far Eastern Army arrived on the ship Slavstroy in November 1931, the population immediately increased from 500 to 2000 people. A tent - “calico” town appeared, and the tent street was named after the commander of the Far Eastern Army V.K. Blucher (now Nagaevskaya Street).

Miners and geologists needed food and equipment, and cargo traveled endlessly along the Olskaya pack trail and rafting along Maltan and Bakhapche. In November 1931, the State Trust for Industrial and Road Construction in the Upper Kolyma Region “Dalstroy” was created.

Dalstroy, GULAG, Sevvostlag

The most tragic and at the same time most famous period in the history of the city and region is associated with these three words. The main task of Dalstroy was the comprehensive development of previously uninhabited territories of the North-East of Russia, primarily the exploration and production of strategically important minerals. And in fact, at the beginning the city grew as a base for supplying the Kolyma mines, where the route was built, the main forces of geologists, miners, and builders were sent. But during the Stalinist repressions, a new period in the history of Magadan began.

Officially, by order No. 287 of the OGPU of the USSR dated April 1, 1932, the North-Eastern forced labor camp (Sevvostlag or USVITLA) was created. In fact, already before April 1, 1932, the first prisoners were brought to Nagaev Bay, and their labor subsequently became one of the main “stimuli” for the development of the city and region. The first stage of prisoners (at least 100 people) arrived in Nagaev Bay on the steamer "Sakhalin" along with other civilian employees of the state trust and riflemen of the paramilitary guard on February 4, 1932. Then, with the opening of navigation in 1932, a massive delivery of prisoners began to Nagaev Bay. By the end of the same year, more than 9 thousand of them were imported. All prisoners were initially used mainly in the construction of Magadan and the Kolyma highway.

Through the forces of prisoners, the “Berzinsky” period of Dalstroy’s activity brought its undoubted fruits, turning this state trust into the largest economic organization in the country, fulfilling and exceeding the tasks assigned to it for the industrial development of Kolyma. However, Dalstroy's achievements in the period 1932-1937. were interconnected not only with the existence of a “gentle” regime for keeping Sevvostlag prisoners, but also with their outright exploitation, since it constantly combined methods of reward and punishment. This especially applied to the position of “political” people who were unreasonably repressed. Most of them were not only deliberately terrorized by the camp administration as “social aliens” or class enemies, but also physically destroyed.

On July 14, 1939, the workers' settlement was transformed into a city. This date is generally considered to be the year of Magadan’s birth, although it was founded ten years earlier.

Sevvostlag existed until the summer of 1957. It “died” along with the reorganization of Dalstroy. The archival documents already studied allow us to say that in Sevvostlag from 1932 to 1957. At least 800 thousand people were kept, of whom up to 150 thousand people died (died for various reasons, were shot). This remains for posterity the price of the existence of one of the main “Gulag islands” in the North-East of Russia for more than a quarter of the 20th century.

In December 1953, the Magadan region was formed on the territory of Dalstroy, the city became its administrative, economic, scientific and cultural center.

Physiographic characteristics

Geographical position

The distance from Magadan to Moscow is 7110 km.

Climate

The city has a harsh climate, intermediate between temperate and subarctic. Winters are very long, although they are moderated by the Sea of ​​Okhotsk; summers are short and cool. The average temperature surpasses 0 degrees only in May, and falls below zero already at the very beginning of October (or end of September). Due to the influence of the sea, the warmest month of the year is August, its average temperature is only 12 degrees. The coldest month of the year, January, has a temperature of −16.5 degrees. Frosts are possible almost all year round. The city never gets hot; the highest temperature was only 26 degrees (July).

• Average annual temperature - −2.9 C°
• Average annual wind speed - 3.6 m/s
• Average annual air humidity - 71%

Physiographic characteristics

Geographical position

The city is located on the territory between Nagaev and Gertner bays, on the coast of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.

The distance from Magadan to Moscow is 7110 km.

Climate

The city has a harsh subarctic climate. Winters are long, although softened by the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, summers are short and cool. The average temperature exceeds 0 degrees in May, and falls below zero in early October (or late September). Due to the influence of the sea, the warmest month of the year is August, with an average temperature of 12 degrees. The coldest month of the year, January, has a temperature of −16.5 degrees. Frosts are possible almost all year round. The city never gets hot; the highest temperature was 26 degrees (July).

• Average annual temperature - −2.9 C°
• Average annual wind speed - 3.6 m/s
• Average annual air humidity - 71%

Population

After a catastrophic (by a third) decrease in the population of Magadan in the 1990s, the demographic situation began to stabilize, and there was even a slight increase in the number of residents. The positive dynamics of growth is largely ensured by the influx of population from the region. The decrease in population outflow is also explained by the multiple increase in real estate prices on the mainland.

The data is based on annual calculations by the regional statistics department.

Economy

Energy

In 1933, the first large power plant with a capacity of 672 kW was built in Magadan.

Thermal energy is produced by the Magadan Thermal Power Plant. Electricity supply is provided by the Southern Electric Networks branch of Magadanenergo OJSC.

Industry

The city produces mining equipment, there are fish processing enterprises, machine-building plants and other industrial enterprises.

The largest commercial sea port in the North-East of the country, Magadan Sea Trade Port operates year-round (from December to May - ice support - one or more icebreakers leading a group or caravan of ships).

The Magadan Mechanical Repair Plant is also located here, which develops and produces heavy mining equipment and spare parts for it, which supplies its products to all gold-mining regions of Russia, a number of CIS countries, and African countries. In post-Soviet times, important enterprises in the gold mining industry were built.

• Magadan Mechanical Plant
• Magadan woodworking plant
• Magadan tire repair plant
• OJSC "Omolon Gold Mining Company"
• LLC "Russian Ferrometals Company"
• OJSC "Kolyma Coal Company"
• Magadan City Dairy Plant
• Magadan Bakery
• Magadan fish factory
• Magadan Distillery

Connection

Until the end of 2004, the only cellular operator in the city and region was Dalsvyaz. In December 2004, MTS appeared in Magadan, in March 2005 - MegaFon, and in August 2009 - Beeline.

Internet

Internet in Magadan is one of the most expensive in Russia. This is explained by the fact that Internet reception in the region occurs through a satellite constellation.

Science and education

In Magadan there is the North-Eastern Complex Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Biological Problems of the North of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Scientific Research Center "Arctic" of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Magadan Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (MagadanNIRO), the North-Eastern State University, 7 vocational schools, 22 secondary schools, 11 libraries and several museums, among which we should highlight the Museum of Local Lore and the Regional Scientific Universal Library named after. A. S. Pushkin.

Transport

Land transport

A federal highway runs from Magadan through the main villages of the region. M56“Kolyma”, connecting the region with Yakutia and the “mainland” (completed in 2008). There is no operating railway in Magadan (construction is planned to begin in 2012).

• Electronic scheme of public transport movement

Air Transport

Magadan International Airport (Sokol) is the largest in the north-east of Russia, and it is practically the only hub used for transporting people and urgent cargo.

The Air Navigation of the North-East enterprise, a branch of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Corporation for Air Traffic Management in the Russian Federation, serves the largest air-territorial zone in Russia. The branch serves about 450 flights daily. This is the only enlarged flight control center in Russia.

The Magadan Aircraft Repair Plant repairs civil and cargo aircraft. The second airport (13 km) serves small aviation, small civil and cargo ships.

Mass media

Radio

• Meter waves:
• 71.36 MHz – New Life
• 88.0 MHz - Silver Rain
• 88.5 MHz - Europe Plus
• 102.5 MHz - New Life
• 103.0 MHz – Autoradio
• 103.5 MHz - Radio Russia/GTRK Magadan
• 104.2 MHz - NRJ/Caribou Radio
• 105.0 MHz – Radio Mayak

• Medium waves:
• 549 kHz – Radio Mayak

• Long waves:
• 234 kHz – Radio Russia

A television

On-air channels

Meter range:

• 1. Channel One
• 3. Russia 1/GTRK Magadan
• 5. Zvezda/Kolyma-Plus
• 6. STS/GTRK Magadan
• 8. Ren TV/TV Caribou
• 11. TNT/MTK-Video

UHF:

• 23. Russia K
• 25. Russia 2
• 31. MTV
• 33. DTV
• 39. NTV

Attractions

Mask of Sorrow

“Mask of Sorrow” is a 15-meter-high monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of Stalin’s repressions who were imprisoned in the Gulag forced labor camps in Kolyma.

The central sculpture of the monument represents a stylized face of a man, from whose left eye tears flow in the form of small masks. The right eye is depicted in the form of a window with bars. The reverse side shows crying women and a headless man on a cross. Inside the monument there is a replica of a typical Stalin-era prison cell.

The monument was erected on the Krutaya hill and opened on June 12, 1996. Here in Stalin’s times there was a “Transitka” - a transshipment point from which prisoners were sent in stages to various Kolyma camps.

Church buildings

The Holy Trinity Cathedral in Magadan is a temple-monument to victims of political repression - the largest Orthodox church in the Far East, which has become the decoration of the city. The prototype of the volumetric architectural design of the Holy Trinity Cathedral was the ancient Russian Vladimir-Novgorod architecture. The cathedral resembles the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow and is one of the tallest in Russia: its height is more than 70 meters.

Twin Cities

Sister cities of Magadan, the date of signing the cooperation agreement is indicated in brackets:

• The city of St. Petersburg is located at the same geographical latitude as Magadan. The harsher climate in Magadan is explained by the proximity of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk.
• In the north of the Russian capital there is a street called “Magadanskaya”.
• One of the versions of the Yandex search engine is called “Magadan”.
• Georgy Zhzhenov, after being released from the camp, served in the local drama theater until the end of 1946.
• In 1968, Vladimir Vysotsky came to Magadan to visit his friend Igor Kokhanovsky. After this trip, the song “My Friend Left for Magadan” was born.
• From 1971 to 1974, Mikhail Shufutinsky sang songs in one of the city’s restaurants.
• The rock group “Night Snipers” found its current name here. At the beginning of their musical career, the duet of Diana Arbenina and Svetlana Surganova performed regular concerts at the local Imperial casino.
• Writer and geologist Oleg Kuvaev has worked in Kolyma since the mid-1950s.
• In 2004, Mikhail Krug’s collection entitled “Magadan” was published.
• Natalya Vetlitskaya dedicated her song of the same name (1994) to Magadan (album “Look into your eyes”).
• On August 31 in Moscow, near the fountain near the Bolshoi Theater, a traditional meeting of Magadan residents and people who once left the Magadan region takes place. This tradition began more than 50 years ago, when the first prospectors who had already left the Far Eastern region decided to meet annually and exchange memories of life in Magadan.

Famous people associated with Magadan

Residents of Magadan who were born or lived and worked in Magadan for a long time and are famous outside of it. Aksyonov Vasily, Pavel Vinogradov, Elena Vyalbe gained worldwide fame.

• Aksenov, Vasily Pavlovich (1932-2009) - writer.
• Arbenina, Diana Sergeevna (1974) - Russian rock singer, leader of the group “Night Snipers”
• Belov, Igor Vladimirovich (1964-2005) - Russian rock musician, singer, guitarist.
• Vinogradov, Pavel Vladimirovich (1953) - cosmonaut.
• Vyalbe, Elena Valerievna (1968) - 3-time Olympic world champion in skiing. In 2010, elected president of the Russian Ski Federation
• Ginzburg, Evgenia Semyonovna (1904-1977) - journalist, memoirist.
• Demich, Yuri Alexandrovich (1948-1990) - Soviet theater and film actor.
• Ipatov, Dmitry Gennadievich (1984) - athlete, ski jumping.
• Kozin, Vadim Alekseevich (1905-1994) - pop singer, composer and poet.
• Kuvaev, Oleg Mikhailovich (1934-1975) - writer and geologist.
• Kymytval, Antonina Aleksandrovna (1938) - poetess.
• Lebzyak, Alexander Borisovich (1969) - Russian and Soviet boxer.
• Tsvetkov, Valentin Ivanovich (1948-2002) - politician, governor of the Magadan region.

The total population in Magadan is very small. But the Jewish component of the population turned out to be quite high. Although now it has noticeably decreased, Jewish Magadan continues to exist. And not long ago, Magadan was a very Jewish city.
In general, the percentage of Jewish prisoners in the GULAG camps was very high (see the GULAG section). But even in post-GULAG times, the Jewish intelligentsia played a very significant role in the life of Magadan. Jews made up a significant percentage of personnel in various fields of activity - education, medicine, culture, construction and in the defining industry for Magadan - geology.
The motives for such concentration could be different - from pure romance to ordinary mercantile considerations (for some decent earnings). But regardless of the reasons, this led to a high intellectual standard of living in Magadan in the 50-70s and to noticeably greater freedom of life here than in the rest of Russia.
With the onset of perestroika, the population of the Magadan region as a whole began to decline significantly. The number of Jews in it began to fall even earlier.
All these trends are reflected in the following tables (according to the passport of the Magadan region, 1992 edition).

Population dynamics
Magadan and Magadan region (including Chukotka)

The region's population peaked in 1988, after which it began a steady decline.
In the city of Magadan, the same downward trend appeared with a delay - at the end of the 80s, the population of Magadan continued to increase. But then - somewhere in the mid-90s - it collapsed no less intensely than in the region.

National composition of the population
Magadan region (including Chukotka)

Indicated by color:

This table presents peoples whose total number within the Magadan region exceeded 1000 people, according to at least one of the censuses (or is close to this figure)

So, according to the 1979 census. Jews were in the top ten of 110 peoples noted in the Magadan region, occupying a fairly noticeable 8th place. But by the end of the eighties they had already fallen into the second ten - to 15th place. And this happened against the backdrop of a significant increase in the numbers of all (!) other peoples, some even by 2 or more times.
In general, everything is in order - Jews have always been distinguished by a significant peculiarity. This is just another confirmation of the well-known thesis.

If someone considers the above dynamics to be a random game of numbers, then here is an additional illustration of the same “Jewish peculiarity” - the number of some “very small” peoples in Magadan according to the same census data, but taken from the tail of the list of 110 nationalities (these Peoples just go in the table - one after another).

He who has ears, let him hear: among small people the same dynamics are confirmed.

Thus, for the population of Magadan and the Magadan region, a decreasing trend is clearly visible both in the general population of Magadan and specifically for Jews. But if the total number began to decrease noticeably only from the border of the 80s - 90s, then for the Jewish contingent the decline began noticeably earlier - in the early eighties or even before that.
Well, Jews are like Jews, they sense any trend in advance (or maybe they create it themselves?!).
This was how it was at the turn of the last century, when the Jews were the first to pave the way to America, and all of active Russia, suffocating under tsarism, rushed after them. The same thing, to the point of a decimal point, was repeated before our eyes - in the Soviet state.
So, Magadan is another, but probably not the last, illustration of this.
Let us rely on the law of conservation of matter (here - people) - since it decreases here, it means that it is added somewhere!

But a trend is a trend, and Jewish Magadan still exists. And the task of this site is to demonstrate this immutable fact.

Magadan is a large capital city of the Magadan Region, located on the shores of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. The area of ​​the settlement is 295 square kilometers.

General data and historical facts

The first settlement on the site of the modern city was founded in 1929. At this time, large-scale construction of residential buildings, hospitals, schools, and social and cultural facilities began in the village.

In 1931, the Dalstroy road and industrial construction trust was formed in Magadan, the main task of which was the construction of roads to the mine areas. The organization used the labor of prisoners brought from other regions of the country as labor.

In 1934, active construction of infrastructure began in Kolyma: the Kolyma highway, river ports, airfields, workers’ settlements.

In July 1939, the settlement was transformed into a city, and in 1954 into a regional center. Thanks to the labor of prisoners, Dalstroy grew into a powerful economic organization of the USSR, which coped well with the tasks of developing Kolyma. In the fall of 1951, this organization was disbanded, and its powers were transferred to a new administrative entity - the Magadan economic region.

Total population of Magadan for 2018-2019

Population data was obtained from the State Statistics Service. Graph of changes in the number of citizens over the past 10 years.

The total number of residents in 2018 was 92.8 thousand people.

The data from the graph shows a steady decline in population from 100,000 in 2006 to 92,782 people in 2018.

As of January 2018, Magadan ranked 187th out of 1,113 cities in the Russian Federation in terms of the number of residents.

Attractions

1.Musical and Drama Theater- this cultural institution was founded in 1941. In the post-war years, many famous people performed at the theater, including Georgy Zhzhenov.

2.Holy Trinity Cathedral- This white stone religious complex was opened in 2008. This cathedral is the largest Orthodox complex in the city.

3.Sculpture of Vysotsky- this work of art is located on the observation deck of Nagaevskaya Bay. During his life, Vysotsky visited the city several times and dedicated two songs to it.

4.Mask of Sorrow- this monument is made in the form of a cubic face. Next to the monument there is a sculpture of a crying woman near a crucifix. Inside this unusual structure are two rooms that look like a prison cell and a cemetery.

Transport

In Magadan there is an airport of international level, which provides passenger flights with major cities of Russia.

Intracity transport is represented by buses and minibuses.

From the city bus station there are regular bus services to Sokol, Yagodnoye, Susuman, Ola, Ust-Omchug, Uptar, Palatka.

Magadan located in northeast Russia on the coast Sea of ​​Okhotsk. The time difference between Moscow and Magadan is eight hours. The distance between Magadan and the capital is 7,110 kilometers. Magadan is the administrative center of the Magadan region, one of the largest seaports in the northeast of the Russian Federation. Population: 96,000 inhabitants (2011).

Magadan occupies an area of ​​1,216 km² between Nagaev and Gertner bays. The city stands on permafrost in a seismically active zone. This region is characterized by harsh climatic conditions. Its climate is formed under the influence of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Average annual temperature: –3ºC; average January temperature: –17ºС; average August temperature: +12ºС. Annual precipitation: 530 mm.

The Klondike Gold Rush sparked the Russian government's interest in Chukotka and the Okhotsk coast. Several expeditions were sent to the outskirts of Russia, but no industrial gold was discovered. In 1915, in the Srednekan basin, a lone prospector Shafigulin, nicknamed Boriska, found the first gold in Kolyma. In 1926, the expedition of S.V. Obruchev established favorable geological conditions for the occurrence of this metal.

Two years later, the first Kolyma expedition of Yu. A. Bilibin marked the beginning of a detailed study of Kolyma. Reliable information about the economy of the region was obtained by the hydrographic expedition of I. F. Molodykh, who recommended Nagaev Bay as convenient for the construction of a port and the starting point for road construction.

On October 13, 1928, the Olsk District Executive Committee decided to build the East-Evenskaya (Nagaevskaya) cultural base, and on June 22, 1929, the first builders came to the shore of the bay and began assembling three residential buildings, a school, a veterinary center, a hospital and a boarding school building. The school was built first. In the fall, geologists lived in it for a whole month together with Yu. A. Bilibin, returning to the mainland. The school accepted its first students that year.

Since 1933, Sergei Narovchatov studied at the first school. From the school, the first street, Oktyabrskaya, went up the hill. The one-story log building, later plastered, has survived to this day - house 5 on Primorskaya Street. Then there was a warehouse in it. For a long time it stood empty, with boarded up windows. Modern buildings rose around it. On one of them there is a memorial plaque stating that the first street of Magadan, Oktyabrskaya, originated from here.

In 1930, a clearing was cut from the sea to Magadanka, where the buildings of a cultural base, a trading post, and the Soyuzzoloto base appeared. The village of Nagaevo becomes the center of the newly formed Okhotsk-Even national district. When demobilized soldiers of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army arrived on the ship Slavstroy in November 1931, the population immediately increased from 500 to 2000 people. The tent - "chintz" - town was full of colors, and the tent street was named after the commander of the Far Eastern Army V.K. Bluchera (now Nagaevskaya Street).

In November 1931, the State Trust for Industrial and Road Construction in the Upper Kolyma Region Dalstroy was created. On February 4, the steamship Sakhalin, not suitable for navigation in ice, approached the gates of Nagaev Bay. The ice didn't let him go any further. A group of trust leaders arrived at Sakhalin, headed by the first director of Dalstroy, Eduard Petrovich Berzin. The ship also delivered the first group of prisoners.

Order No. 1 was about the construction of the road. In December 1931, there was an unsuccessful attempt to break through to Elekchan through the snow and taiga wilds on four semi-trucks. Only the fifth time the heroic efforts were crowned with success, and the tractor column reached Elekchan - the beginning of the rafting.

Place for building a support base Berzin E.P. chose three kilometers from the bay. In a short time, barracks, mechanical workshops, and a sawmill with a 13-kilometer narrow-gauge railway for transporting timber were built on the banks of the Magadanka River. Sergei Obruchev, who visited here in the summer of 1932, wrote: “In the river valley, on a spacious and free site, ... the town of Magadan was built - the modern capital of the coast. There are buses from it to Nagaevo (still trucks with benches), and even, as they say, civilization has come so far that one must beware of thieves on these buses.”

In 1932, 20 prefabricated panel houses were delivered on the ship “Shaturstroy”, installing them along Sovetskaya and Kommuna streets. The following year, similar houses came from Sakhalin. Literally a month later they were collected, and Sovetskaya and Kommuny streets appeared. The first water supply system also came into operation.

Two years later, the Kolyma highway was paved up to 35 km, and travel was opened up to 150 km. Barracks, mechanical workshops, and mooring structures were built in the shortest possible time. In 1932, S. V. Obruchev wrote: “In the valley of the Magadan River, on a spacious and free site, ... the town of Magadan was built - the modern capital of the coast.”

On the shore of Magadanka, in the area of ​​the 31st quarter, a brick factory grew up, working on local loam. There was not enough brick, and pressed moss was used as insulation at the construction site. At the fourth kilometer, an adobe town appeared. The first brick buildings - two three-story residential buildings - began to be erected in 1933. The first public buildings were a power station and a telegraph office. The latter has survived to this day (located opposite the bus station). Next to it is the second building of the polytechnic, a former border detachment building. In 1933, a sawmill was built with the first narrow-gauge railway, 13 km, laid in the Magadanka valley.

In the summer of the following year, a 50-meter pier was put into operation, and on December 29, 1934, Magadan residents received the Uelen steamship. Four domestic aircraft were lowered from its deck. On them, pilots D.N. Tarasov, M.S. Sergeev, N.S. Snezhkov made truly heroic sorties - from ice reconnaissance to long thousand-kilometer flights without maps.
In the same year, a technical school was opened to train mining, agricultural and teaching personnel. There appeared its own permanent newspaper “Soviet Kolyma”, publishing house, and museum. In May 1935, construction began on a four-story school No. 1 according to a design sent by N.K. Krupskaya at Berzin’s request.

In the same year, a technical school was opened to train mining, agricultural and teaching personnel. There appeared its own permanent newspaper “Soviet Kolyma”, publishing house, and museum. In May 1935, construction began on four-story school No. 1 according to a design sent by N.K. Krupskaya at the request of E.P. Berzin

In December 1935, the ship boiler, mechanical and forging shops of the Marchekan plant were put into operation, where they began to produce steel boats, dry cargo and oil barges. Two years later, the auto repair plant became an independent enterprise.

In 1936, radio communication with the mainland was established. Residents of Magadan heard the voice of the Moscow announcer. “In the sixth year of operation,” wrote E.P. Berzin in the Kolyma magazine, “Dalstroy will again double its production and, in terms of its share, will occupy a place equal to several large gold mining trusts of the Union.”

At first, the city grew as a base for supplying the Kolyma mines, where the route was built, and the main forces of geologists, miners, and builders were sent. Considering the remoteness from the deposits and the poor climate of the coast, Berzin planned not to develop Magadan, but to build the main city of the gold-mining region in Kolyma, at the mouth of the Taskan River. Other options were also proposed - at the mouth of Orotukan, in the area of ​​​​the current villages of Stekolny and Uptar. These plans were not destined to come true.

In 1937, a dark period began in the life of the region. Wonderful people who devoted all their efforts to the development of the North were repressed on trumped-up charges. E.P. Berzin was shot, Robert Apin, a political worker, the initiator of all publishing endeavors in Magadan, journalist Alexey Kosterin, and writer Isaac Gekhtman were arrested. heads of factories and departments. In 1938-39 alone, Magadan received tens of thousands of convicts, the so-called “enemies of the people.” Among them were General A.V. Gorbatov, designer S.P. Korolev, professor A.K. Boldyrev, agronomist K.G. Gutydze, film artist G.S. Zhzhenov... The city was built with their hard labor.

On July 14, 1939, the workers' settlement was transformed into a city. This date is generally considered to be the year of Magadan’s birth, although it was founded ten years earlier. In April 1941, the headquarters building of Dalstroy was put into operation (later it housed Severovostokzoloto). It stood out in scale among other buildings. The authors of the project are architect N. N. Yurgenson, designer V. G. Drozdov. In October of this year, the construction of the House of Culture (since 1946 - the A. M. Gorky Theater), which was carried out by architects E. V. Somov and I. V. Polyakov, and designer V. G. Drozdov, was completed. The city found its business and social center.

Magadan Musical and Drama Theater - 20th century.

Magadan Musical and Drama Theater - XXI century.

The Magadan Theater takes its origins from a small group that began work in 1933 at Dalstroy, even before the founding of the city of Magadan. It is characteristic that the first performance staged in honor of the Day of Proletarian Solidarity of Workers of the World - May 1, 1933 - was called “Utopia”. Initially, there were two theaters in Kolyma: in the club of the Administration of the North-Eastern labor camps (most of the troupe consisted of prisoners, former professional artists) and in the Workers' Club at the Kolyma District Council of Trade Union Workers of Gold and Platinum (the troupe consisted of civilian workers). Then these two teams were administratively united in the Central Club of the District Committee of the Union of Gold and Platinum, later called the Club named after. M. Gorky. The first directors were G.P. Shnabel, I.P. Belov, G.N. Katsman, V.V. Andreev-Burlak.

On September 3, 1941, an order was issued by the head of Dalstroy on the merger of the M. Gorky Theater and the Magadan Variety Theater (MET) and the creation of 10 September Unified Magadan Musical and Drama Theatre. (GAMO. F. r-23, op. 1, d. 79, l. 92 // Magadan. Synopsis of the past... - P. 118, author Kozlov A.G.)

Thus, on September 10, 1941, the single Magadan Music and Drama Theater of Dalstroy began to function, F.A. Yarikov became the director. Over the years, artists N.S. Artamonov, O.L. Dolgoruky, G.S. Zhzhenov, E.M. Negina, M.A. Biber, Yu.E. worked in the theater. Rosen Strauch; artist V.I. Shukhaev; director L.V. Varpakhovsky, who, among other things, staged the only opera in the history of this theater - “La Traviata”; singer V.A. Kozin and others. In 1996 it received its modern name.

During the Great Patriotic War, he lived with a single desire with the country: to do everything to defeat the enemy. During these difficult years, a glass factory based on local volcanic ash came into operation. The industrial plant produced work clothes and shoes, stamped buttons, spoons, and rags were used to produce cotton wool. The tannery provided glue, soap, and brushes. The pasta factory began producing confectionery products. Cars were converted to gas generator fuel.

Magadan residents helped the front with hard work. In 1942, a whole trainload of gifts was sent to front-line soldiers in the active army. In total, about half a billion rubles were collected for defense activities in Kolyma. The “Komsomol of Kolyma” bomber flight, the “Soviet Polar Explorer” air squadron, the “Dalstroevets”, “Kolyma Collective Farmer”, “Dalstroi Social” aircraft, the “Kolyma Pioneer” tank column - this is not a complete list of military equipment built at the expense of Kolyma residents. Husband and wife I.F. and A.L. Boyko, workers of the auto repair plant A.M. Efanov, I.E. Konyukhov, A.P. Timchenko, M.K. Shcheglov bought tanks with their own money and went to fight in them. , V. Ya. Yakovlev, Kolymaproekt employees A. P. Khodosko and N. G. Tsybin.

Many Magadan residents fought with weapons in their hands. Komsomol member Ivan Skuridin died in the battles for the liberation of Leningrad, repeating Matrosov’s feat. Many former prisoners also fought honestly.

After the war, new stages of “prisoners” began to pass through Magadan, mostly Soviet prisoners of war liberated from Nazi camps. They built roads and new mines in Kolyma and Indigirka. Their labor was widely used in the construction of buildings in Magadan. And not everyone managed to survive in the harsh conditions of the North and hard labor - many were rehabilitated posthumously.

In August 1945, the Felix Dzerzhinsky arrived with two thousand girls on board, who came to Kolyma on Komsomol vouchers. Many of them connected their lives with the harsh region for decades. Honored school teacher of the RSFSR, director of the humanitarian lyceum V. E. Gogoleva also belonged to them.

In the post-war years, construction intensified. It was then that the city center took shape with beautiful buildings along Lenin, Portovaya, Gorky, and Pushkin streets, reflecting the influence of the Leningrad school. Japanese prisoners of war also worked in the construction of these buildings.

In December 1953, the Magadan region was formed on the territory of Dalstroy, the city became its administrative, economic, scientific and cultural center. The appearance of the camp city quickly changed. The transit towns could not accommodate the thousands of rehabilitated settlers returning to the mainland, settlers released early. Camps were liquidated and barracks were demolished. In 1953, the mining and geological technical school received students in a beautiful building (architect P. N. Andrikamns, designer V. A. Illarionov). The Sports Palace (project authors A.V. Mashinsky, S.M. Kurdubov, G.P. Malschkin) became a wonderful gift for city residents - a unique building that harmoniously fits into the ensemble of the park. Its opening took place on July 15, 1954. Three years later, television screens lit up in the city, receiving signals from an amateur television studio.

In 1963, a new general plan for the city was adopted, which provided for a fivefold increase in the building area. On the eve of the city's 25th anniversary, its population was more than 70 thousand people. There were 11 thousand students in 24 schools.

The 1990s were a time of rapid population decline. The main factor in this process was the multiple increase in outward migration. Between 1989 and 2004, the number of residents decreased by a third. Subsequently, the situation stabilized - the outflow of population decreased. Currently, it is partially compensated by the influx of population from the region.

Nowadays, a prominent place in the city industry is occupied by the production of mining equipment, mechanical engineering, electric power, heat and power, the construction industry, and the food industry, including fish processing. Large industrial facilities include the Magadan Mechanical Repair Plant, which produces heavy mining equipment and components, and an aircraft repair plant, which repairs civil and cargo aircraft. The products of the mechanical repair plant are supplied to all gold-mining regions of Russia and to a number of foreign countries.

IN Magadan there are several research institutes, higher and secondary specialized educational institutions, including the North-Eastern Complex Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Biological Problems of the North of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Research Center "Arctic" of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Magadan Research Institute Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, Research Institute of Gold and Rare Metals, Zonal Research Institute of Agriculture of the North-East and a branch of the Pacific Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography, North-Eastern State University, Magadan Institute of Economics - branch of the St. Petersburg Academy of Management and Economics, branch of the Moscow State Law Academy named after. O.E. Kutafina, branch of the Russian Academy of Entrepreneurship, branch of the Modern Academy of Humanities, branch of the Russian State University for the Humanities. There are seven vocational schools and 22 secondary schools in the city.

Magadan sea trade port operates all year round. In 2006, its cargo traffic amounted to 1.1 million tons. Magadan International Airport is located 53 kilometers north of the city. From here aircraft operate flights to Moscow (Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo) and to other settlements of the Far East. The M-56 Kolyma highway connects Magadan with Yakutia.

Sights: Magadan Regional Museum of Local Lore, Memorial Museum-Apartment of Vadim Alekseevich Kozin, Museum of Natural History of the North-Eastern Complex Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Holy Trinity Cathedral, Mask of Sorrow monument. The Mask of Sorrow monument was designed by Ernst Neizvestny and Kamil Kazaev and is dedicated to the memory of victims of political repression. This 15-meter structure was erected on the Krutaya hill in 1996. Its interior is a replica of a Gulag-era prison cell. Another monument to the victims of Stalin's repressions, the Holy Trinity Cathedral, founded in 2001, is one of the tallest Russian churches (height - more than 70 meters).

Among famous natives of Magadan musician Igor Belov, test cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, skier, three-time Olympic champion Elena Vyalbe, Soviet theater and film actor Yuri Demich, Soviet singer, composer and poet Vadim Kozin and others. The writer lived and worked in Magadan for a long time Vasily Aksenov, singer and poet Diana Arbenina(Kulachenko).

Today Magadan is a modern city with a complex infrastructure, which, in fact, determines the accessibility and quality of the urban environment. Every year Magadan is noticeably transformed: new residential buildings are being built, streets, squares, parks and public gardens are being improved, historical and cultural monuments are being reconstructed.

The history of our city is full of complex and contradictory facts, but we value both the past and the present of our small homeland, because courage and nobility have always taken place here, here characters are tested for strength and the gold of human relationships is of the highest standard.