Kureika (village)

66°28′01″N 87°10′16″E / 66.467°N 87.171°E / 66.467; 87.171 Kureika (Russian: Куре́йка) is a Russian village just north of the Arctic Circle near Turukhansk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, by the confluence of Kureika River and Yenisey. [citation needed]

The grave of a Yenisei ostyak with a sledge near Kureika, 1913. The picture of F. Nansen

Here Joseph Stalin spent his final exile in 1914–1916. In 1938 the Stalin museum in Kureika [ru] was established. In 1952 a pavilion was built surrounding and preserving the izba (wooden hut) Stalin had lived in during his exile. The museum was closed and hut was demolished, along with Stalin's statue, during de-Stalinization in 1961, and the pavilion was burnt in a fire in 1996.[1]

Population

1989[2] 422
2002[2] Decrease181
2010[3] Decrease78

References

  1. ^ "Тень тирана в сибирской глубинке" ("Tyrant's Shadow in Siberian Outback"), Novaya Gazeta
  2. ^ a b "ИТОГИ ВСЕРОССИЙСКОЙ ПЕРЕПИСИ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ 2002 ГОДА. Сельские населенные пункты Красноярского края. Госкомстат России, Красноярск, 2004".
  3. ^ "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Итоги по Красноярскому краю. 1.10 Численность населения гор.округов, мун.районов, гор. и сел. поселе".


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