Ola

Ola (Russian:ола, O-la) is a city of 6,000 people (2021) in Magadan Oblast at the mouth of the Ola River, on the coast of the Tauiskaya Bay of the Sea of Okhotsk.

By the Kolyma Highway and P482 (sealed roads), approximately 30 km east of Magadan.

Map of Ola

At the shore is a rock formation known as the three monks, together with a plaque commemorating the location of the first landing by geologists in 1928. Magadan was founded 3 years later.

The Olsky Museum is in the building of the House of Pioneers. It has more than 5,000 exhibits of the main and scientific auxiliary fund.

• 59.5667151.30341 Pamyatnik Putilovu I Shurupovu. The stele marking the landing site of the First Kolyma Geological Expedition led by Yu. A. Bilibin is 4 km from the village of Ola on the bank of the Nyuklya River.  

• Magadan