Turukhansky District
human settlement in Russia
Turukhansky District (Russian: Туруха́нский райо́н) is an administrative and municipal district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the west of the krai and borders with Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District in the north, Evenkiysky District in the east, Yeniseysky District in the south, and with Tyumen Oblast in the west. The area of the district is 211,189 square kilometers (81,541 sq mi). Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Turukhansk. Population: 18,708 (2010 census); 12,439 (2002 Census); 19,257 (1989 Soviet census). The population of Turukhansk accounts for 24.9% of the district's total population.
Geography
The following tributaries of the Yenisey flow through the district: the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, the Bakhta River, the Yeloguy River, the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, the Turukhan River, and the Kureyka River.
History
The district was founded on June 7, 1928. Historically the area served as a site of exile, to which individuals such as Ariadna Èfron (1949–1955) were banished. One center of such imprisonments was the gulag at Yermakovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai, built 1949 under the orders of Joseph Stalin, who himself had spent 1913 to 1917 exiled in the area.
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