Omolon (Russian: Омолон) is a rural locality (a selo) in Bilibinsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
[10] Previously, the Sovkhoz had been in control of all of the major community services, such as power, education, health and other functions, which were now administered individually at rural settlement or district administrative level.
Where previously the Sovkhoz had controlled the settlement's economy and its associated facilities, by 1998 there were nine separate entities involved in the same work and the number of reindeer held by the brigades had fallen from nearly 34,000 to just over 9,000.
[10] The village, previously called Oloy, Unyagan, and Shcherbakovo before the current name was settled upon in 1960,[11] is the most isolated populated place in Bilibinsky District.
There is however a network of streets within the village including:[15] Omolon has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc/Dfd), with long, very cold winters, and short, cool summers.