Taskan (Russian: Таскан) was a rural locality in Yagodninsky District, Magadan Oblast, Russian Far East.

There is a road leading to Yagodnoye to the southwest of Taskan and another to Elgen to the southeast.^[1]

This abandoned settlement is located in the Upper Kolyma Highlands by the confluence of the Mylga and the Taskan, a left tributary of the Kolyma that flows from the Chersky Range.^[2]

Taskan was established in the 1930s. In the 1940s, there was a food processing factory which employed mostly prisoners. In the 1960s, the first two-story wooden buildings were built, as the economy began to develop. By 1993, the population had risen to about 850 inhabitants and there was a state farm that specialized in animal husbandry and the growing of vegetables. The population fell rapidly after the collapse of the USSR and only a residual population remained. According to the 2010 census only 30 people lived in Taskan.^[3] Finally the settlement was abolished in 2019.^[4]

Yevgenia Ginzburg (1904 - 1977), a Soviet author, served a term in Taskan as a nurse during her imprisonment in the 1940s under Stalin's regime.

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