Dikson (Диксон) is a closed urban-type settlement in Krasnoyarsk Krai. Population: 883 (2005 est.);
Dikson is the northernmost port in Russia and one of the northernmost settlements in the world. It is located so far north that one may experience complete darkness with no civil twilight from the 8th of December to the 5th of January. In most major settlements north of the Arctic Circle, there is still substantial twilight during the polar night at midday. It is also one of the most isolated settlements in the world. Dikson is named after a Swedish explorer.
Dikson's inhabitants informally call their settlement an "Arctic's Capital"; a name taken from a popular Soviet song.
The urban-type settlement of Dikson, as well as Dikson Island, have been named after Swedish Arctic pioneer Baron Oscar Dickson. Dickson, along with Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Sibiryakov, was the patron of a number of early Arctic expeditions, including Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's Russian Arctic explorations.
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