The village is a traditional Chukchi and Yupik settlement in an area that has been inhabited for centuries.

Further along the coast, near the village, a stone circle can be found, dating from the sixteenth to seventeenth century when the Chukchi fought battles with the Cossack explorers.

The skeletons of those killed in the battle can still be found on the surrounding tundra and the local Chukchi population regard the area as cursed.

[10] As well as the stone circle, on the eastern shore of Kolyuchinskaya Bay is the ancient Inuit village of Anayan (inhabitants transferred to Neshkan in the 1950s by Soviet authorities), where ruined houses still stand.

[14] Nutepelmen has an arctic tundra climate (ET)[15] with long, bitterly cold and snowy winters and very short, chilly and wet summers.