High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Markovo (Russian: Марково) is a village (selo) situated near the head of small-boat navigation of the Anadyr River, near the center of the Anadyrsky District (Raion) of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, part of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia. The population in June 2005, according to an evnvironmental impact report prepared for the Kupol Gold Project, was 865,Municipally, Markovo is incorporated as Markovo Rural Settlement. Although now a small village, but still quite large by chukotkan standards, the village has historically been an important settlement in the region and was a hub for trade during the early period of Cossack exploration.