Chekurovka (; ) is a rural locality (a '' selo''), in Bulunsky National (Evenk) Rural Okrug of

Bulunsky District Bulunsky District (; , ''Buluŋ uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district (raion, or ''ulus''), one of the thirty-four in the Sakha Republic, Russia. It is the mos ...

in the

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, located Kyusyur, the administrative centre of the rural okrug and from

Tiksi Tiksi ( rus, Ти́кси, , ˈtʲiksʲɪ; , ''Tiksii'' – lit. ''a moorage place'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) and the administrative center of Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, located on the shore of the B ...

, the administrative center of the district.''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic'' Its population as of the 2010 Census was 0,Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the

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. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census
Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам
(''Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities'') the same as recorded during the 2002 Census.

Geography

Located on the

Lena River The Lena is a river in the Russian Far East and is the easternmost river of the three great rivers of Siberia which flow into the Arctic Ocean, the others being Ob (river), Ob and Yenisey. The Lena River is long and has a capacious drainage basi ...

, Chekurovka is north of the center of the rural settlements Kyusyur and southwest of Tiksi.

History

Prior to the dissolution of the village in 1970, Chekurovka was the centre of the ''Victory''

collective farm Collective farming and communal farming are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: agricultural cooperatives, in which member-o ...

consisting of five reindeer herds, ten hunting areas and three fishing areas capable of producing up to one hundred tons of fish. During its height, approximately one hundred families lived in the village supported by a primary school, club, shop, bakery and medical centre. In 1970, the population was forcibly moved and the village closed whilst nearby an underground nuclear explosion was carried out and a search for oil and gas was made. In 1992, families of former residents decided to resettle the site of the former village, with the site now consisting of two houses, a power plant and storage facilities employing 65 people.

References

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Sources

*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Bulunsky District
. * Rural localities in Bulunsky District Populated places on the Lena River {{SakhaRepublic-geo-stub