# Vanavara (rural locality)

Vanavara (Russian: Ванава́ра) is a rural locality (a selo) in Evenkiysky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Podkamennaya Tunguska River at the mouth of the local Vanavarki River. Population: 3,153 (2010 Census); 3,313 (2002 Census); 5,697 (1989 Soviet census).
Vanavara is notable for being the nearest populated place to the site of the 1908 Tunguska event.

## History

The locality, also occasionally named Anavar (Анавар), as it exists today was founded in 1932 as a base for herders, hunters, and fishermen, as well as a location for a weather station.
A plane crash occurred on September 26, 1994, when a plane flying from Krasnoyarsk to Tura had diverted to Vanavara Airport due to bad weather: on running out of fuel the crew then attempted an emergency landing on the bank of the Chamba River 41 km from Vanavara centre. All twenty-four passengers and four crew died in the crash.
On December 10, 2010, an explosion occurred in a boiler in the heating plant in Vanavara. A fireman was killed in the incident and heating was cut off for 720 houses, forcing the temporary evacuation of many children to Krasnoyarsk.

## Transportation

The locality is served by Vanavara Airport.

## Climate

Vanavara has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc). Winters are severely cold with average temperature -27.9 °C (-18.2 °F) in January, while summers are warm enough with average temperature 18.1 °C (64.6 °F) in July. Precipitation is moderate and is somewhat higher in summer than at other times of the year.
Climate data for Vanavara :
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Record high °C (°F) | 1.0 (33.8) | 5.3 (41.5) | 13.8 (56.8) | 25.3 (77.5) | 33.9 (93.0) | 35.7 (96.3) | 36.0 (96.8) | 34.8 (94.6) | 29.6 (85.3) | 19.2 (66.6) | 6.9 (44.4) | 1.7 (35.1) | 36.0 (96.8) |
| Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −22.0 (−7.6) | −15.0 (5.0) | −4.2 (24.4) | 4.7 (40.5) | 13.3 (55.9) | 22.8 (73.0) | 25.4 (77.7) | 21.3 (70.3) | 11.8 (53.2) | 0.8 (33.4) | −13.0 (8.6) | −22.1 (−7.8) | 2.0 (35.6) |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | −27.9 (−18.2) | −23.4 (−10.1) | −12.7 (9.1) | −2.1 (28.2) | 6.5 (43.7) | 15.4 (59.7) | 18.1 (64.6) | 14.2 (57.6) | 5.7 (42.3) | −3.5 (25.7) | −18.6 (−1.5) | −27.3 (−17.1) | −4.6 (23.7) |
| Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −33.4 (−28.1) | −30.9 (−23.6) | −21.5 (−6.7) | −9.3 (15.3) | −0.3 (31.5) | 7.4 (45.3) | 10.5 (50.9) | 7.2 (45.0) | 0.6 (33.1) | −7.6 (18.3) | −24.1 (−11.4) | −32.5 (−26.5) | −11.2 (11.9) |
| Record low °C (°F) | −61.0 (−77.8) | −57.7 (−71.9) | −50.3 (−58.5) | −39.0 (−38.2) | −26.4 (−15.5) | −6.2 (20.8) | −3.0 (26.6) | −5.9 (21.4) | −16.2 (2.8) | −39.2 (−38.6) | −54.5 (−66.1) | −58.2 (−72.8) | −61.0 (−77.8) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 20 (0.8) | 15 (0.6) | 16 (0.6) | 26 (1.0) | 37 (1.5) | 53 (2.1) | 48 (1.9) | 51 (2.0) | 46 (1.8) | 42 (1.7) | 33 (1.3) | 24 (0.9) | 411 (16.2) |
| Average snowfall cm (inches) | 46 (18) | 53 (21) | 54 (21) | 41 (16) | 4 (1.6) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 5 (2.0) | 21 (8.3) | 35 (14) | 259 (101.9) |
| Average rainy days | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 101 |
| Average snowy days | 25 | 21 | 17 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 21 | 25 | 25 | 158 |
| Average relative humidity (%) | 77 | 74 | 66 | 60 | 57 | 62 | 66 | 73 | 75 | 78 | 79 | 78 | 70 |
| Mean monthly sunshine hours | 54 | 119 | 186 | 226 | 245 | 288 | 295 | 216 | 142 | 86 | 62 | 27 | 1,946 |
| Source 1: pogoda.ru.net ||||||||||||||
| Source 2: NOAA (sun only, 1961-1990) ||||||||||||||