LOTD: Yanrakynnot
(from: http://www.ibiblio.org/lighthouse/rusch.htm)
Yanrakynnot (Yarakynnot)
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 36 m (118 ft); white flash every 10 s. 11 m (36 ft) square skeletal tower. The tower is to behind the town in Maksim Antipin's aerial photo below, but Google has only a fuzzy satellite view of the area. Located in Yanrakynnot, a Chukchi village of about 300 residents at the entrance to the Venetken lagoon. Site open, tower closed. Admiralty M8195; NGA 15289.1.
(image found here; originally posted on Panoramio, which closed; ©Maksim Antipin)












