Gizhiga (Russian: Гижига) is a rural locality (a selo) in Severo-Evensky District of Magadan Oblast, Russia, located at the head of Gizhigin Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk, on the right bank of the Gizhiga just upstream from its mouth where there is a poor but usable harbor.

[citation needed] Gizhiga was an important place in the first half of the 19th century.

Gizhiga and Tigilsky were the only two places on the Sea of Okhotsk to have the status of a krepost (fortress).

When Kennan[1] was there in 1866, Gizhiga dominated the trade in the area between Okhotsk and Anadyrsk.

It was visited annually by a government supply steamer and by American merchant vessels.