shooter[12]) is a rural locality (a selo) in Chaunsky District of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located southwest of Pevek on the southern shores of Chaunskaya Bay.

[8] The village is named after the nearby eponymous river and is translated as shooter,[12] so called because the area was the site of a battle between Chukchi and strangers on horseback.

[13] The collective nature of the reindeer herding was reinforced by the establishment of twelve brigades in 1965,[13] supplied with motorised transport to improve their work.

[13] Rytkuchi is a maritime village on the southern shore of Chaunskaya Bay only 15 km from the Ust-Chaun wetland.

[17] The weapons used by the herders are often late nineteenth or early twentieth century Winchester rifles traded to them in pre-Soviet times by American traders in search of furs.