Lavrentiya
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Lavrentiya (Russian:Лавре́нтия, Yupik: Ӄышы) is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Chukotsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on Lavrentiya Bay, close to the Bering Strait. Population: 1,459(2010 Census);1,333(2002 Census);3,012(1989 Census). Lavrentiya is the only district administrative center in the whole autonomous okrug that does not have urban status; it accounts for 30.2% of the district's total population.