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The paper presents the assessment the current state of the Chukotka highlands’ glaciers by satellite images at the background of climatic change, projection of glacier evolution in the near future. It also gives the general description of the regional socio-economic drivers of the region of study as a part of AACA-BCB (AMAP) cluster. Trends of the mean annual and summer temperature for entire Chukotka Peninsula within 1966-2012 are positive. Precipitation trends of annual sum and for cold period are negative in coastal regions, and positive on the continent between the Cross Gulf of Anandyrskiy estuary. Thus, climate processes occurring over Chukotka, do not contribute into the development and extension of glaciation. Estimation of the evolution of glaciers was consisted in construction of balance schemes for each glacier system by climatic data, which is the only available for this poorly studied region and in involving climatic scenario, for the period up to 2030. The method in detail was described for the Eastern Siberia in (Anaicheva et al, 2010).