normally sparse. Administrative and municipal status Anadyr is the administrative center of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug and, within the framework of administrative divisions, it also serves as the administrative center of Anadyrsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with the selo Tavayvaam, incorporated separately as the town of okrug significance of Anadyr—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of okrug significance of Anadyr is incorporated as Anadyr Urban Okrug. Demographics Transportation Anadyr is an important sea port on the Bering Sea and is connected to almost all major Russian Far Eastern seaports. Anadyr's Ugolny Airport serves major and minor cities in the Russian Far East with connections to Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, and Moscow, while Bering Air provides charter flights to Nome, Alaska in the United States. The airport is on the other side of the Anadyrsky Liman, and from January to May, transportation from the airport to Anadyr is by ice road. In the summer there is a ferry which transports passengers across the Anadyr River to the airport, but during spring and autumn when the river ice is melting and full of drifting ice floes, the only means of transportation to the airport is via helicopter. Although there is a network of roads between Anadyr and Tavayvaam, the town is not connected to any other settlement via road. Construction of the Anadyr Highway was started in 2012, to link the town to Magadan, a distance of . Climate Anadyr experiences a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification: Dfc). Winters are long and frigid; summers are pleasant and short. January is the coldest month with an average temperature of . July is the warmest month with an average temperature of . Temperatures above are rare. The lowest temperature ever recorded was recorded on January 3, 1913. The highest temperature recorded was on July 7, 1956. The weather changes easily with heavy storms often being brought in from the Anadyrsky Liman and the Bering Sea. This coupled with strong southerly winds in the autumn often brings flooding to the area. May is the driest month while January is the wettest. Politics Results of Russian legislative elections Notable people Valery Tokarev, cosmonaut Roman Abramovich, oil oligarch, former owner of Chelsea FC and the former Governor of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Diomid Dzyuban, former bishop