Kureika () is a Russian village just north of the

Arctic Circle The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the northernmost of the five major circle of latitude, circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth at about 66° 34' N. Its southern counterpart is the Antarctic Circle. The Arctic Circl ...

near Turukhansk in

Krasnoyarsk Krai Krasnoyarsk Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krai) of Russia located in Siberia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Krasnoyarsk, the second-largest city in Siberia after ...

, by the confluence of

Kureika River The Kureyka (; also ''Lyuma'', ''Numa'') is a major right tributary of the Yenisey in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It falls from the Putorana Plateau to the vast taiga plain of Northern Siberia and flows northward passing through a series of elonga ...

and Yenisey. P201 Old native graves in the forest of Kureika

Here

Joseph Stalin Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...

spent his final exile in 1914–1916. In 1938 the 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 De-Stalinization () comprised a series of political reforms in the Soviet Union after Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, the death of long-time leader Joseph Stalin in 1953, and Khrushchev Thaw, the thaw brought about by ascension of Nik ...

in 1961, and the pavilion was burnt in a fire in 1996."Тень тирана в сибирской глубинке"
("Tyrant's Shadow in Siberian Outback"), '' Novaya Gazeta''

Population

References

Rural localities in Turukhansky District Places associated with Joseph Stalin De-Stalinization {{KrasnoyarskKrai-geo-stub