a walrus rookery in Nenets) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Zapolyarny District of Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the coast of Kara Sea, near the Vaygach Island, 490 kilometers (300 mi) from Naryan-Mar, the administrative center of the autonomous okrug.

[citation needed] Amderma has a polar climate (ET) with very cool and short summers combined with very long and cold (but by Russian standards not severe) winters.

As a result of the lack of regular warm temperatures Amderma is above the tree line.

However, the cold Arctic Ocean tempers and reduces the heat effect midnight sun brings to inland locations further south such as Naryan-Mar.

Fluorite deposits are located in the vicinity of Amderma, but the mines have been abandoned since the 1990s.