On the Internet, publications about the town of Witter are widespread - it so happened that all the townspeople settled in the same house. We checked whether this is really so.

The fact that all the inhabitants of Wittira in Alaska live under one roof, tell several large VKontakte publics, for example "5 interesting facts", "Turns out…", "World of Discovery" and others. The unusual town is devoted to their posts and users of other social networks, in particular Facebook And Twitter. Similar messages can be found on Life.ru, V "National Geographic Russia", blogs on "Habre ", "Culturology" And Pikabu, on the portals WDay.ru And "Interesting facts".

The Whittier predictably attracted the attention of not only Russian -speaking users of social networks, but also the American media. Dedicated to this city, reports came out, for example, on CNN and in The Smithsonian Magazine - Their authors also talked about the city in Alaska, where "all residents live in the same building." In May 2021 CBS News released The video about life in the Wittiier, which spoke of the "majority of about 300 citizens" who live in the same house. Similar assessments Curses and USA Today.

Facts from the authoritative American project Snopes Contacted With the mayor of Wittyra, to find out how everything is actually. According to a representative of the city administration, in total there are about 300 inhabitants in the city, from 80% to 90% of them live in the house of Begich-Tauers for 196 apartments. The rest of the townspeople lives in another apartment building. Probably the three -story building On the street Blaxtone Road.

The house in which the majority of the inhabitants of Wittira now live. Built In the 1950s, for the deployment of military and engineers-during the Second World War in this Rain, the base of material and technical support for the American army was organized. In 1974, the building was named Begich-Tauers in honor of the Congressman from Alaska Nika Begich-two years earlier he flew on an airplane that disappeared from the radar, it was not possible to find his fragments (as well as passengers). In the house, in addition to residential premises, There is A small store, a notary office, a post office and a church, and an underground tunnel connects it with a local school.