Pevek (Russian: Певек) is an Arctic port town and the administrative center of Chaunsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Chaunskaya Bay (part of the East Siberian Sea) on a peninsula on the eastern side of the bay facing the Routan Islands, above the Arctic Circle, about 640 kilometers (400 mi) northwest of Anadyr. It is the northernmost town in Russia and in Asia. Population: 4,161 (2010 Census preliminary results); 5,206 (2002 Census); 12,915 (1989 Census).
Municipally, the town is subordinated to Chaunsky Municipal District and together with Apapelgino and Yanranay is incorporated as Pevek Urban Settlement. The town is a modern settlement established after World War I to provide a port for the export of minerals as part of the expanding Northern Sea Route. During the 1940s and 1950s, the area surrounding Pevek was the site of several GULAGs where prisoners mined uranium. In recent years though many of the mines have been shown to be uneconomic and have closed, causing many residents to move to more central regions in Russia and for the port infrastructure to decay.
The area around Pevek was known to western Russians by the middle of the 18th century as the records of the second Kamchatka Expedition document the discovery of Cape Shelag, with further references to the cape being made in the records of the Billings expedition, with Russian explorers first describing Chaunskaya Bay in the 1760s.
The earliest records of the area now known as Pevek being inhabited were made by the writer Tikhon Semushkin, who discovered a Chukchi hunting lodge and yaranga in 1926. By the mid-1930s, Pevek was an important port in the region, due to the natural harbour provided by Chaunskaya Bay, the expansion of the Northern Sea Route and the discovery of tin at the Pyrkakay mine (which would later be renamed Krasnoarmeysky) some 40 miles away. The discovery of minerals throughout this region meant Pevek had an important part to play in importing the required plant and machinery and exporting the extracted minerals and by 1950, the settlement had nearly 1500 people living in it.

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