Surgutikha is a
rural locality in
Turukhansky District
Turukhansky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-2925 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 i ...
of
Krasnoyarsk Krai
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,
Russia
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, located along the Surgutikha river.
Population
Surgutikha is one of the few remaining localities natively inhabited by the
Ket people
Kets (; Ket: кето, кет, денг) are a Yeniseian-speaking people in Siberia. During the Russian Empire, they were known as Ostyaks, without differentiating them from several other Siberian people. Later, they became known as ''Yenisei ...
. The variety of
Ket spoken in Surgutikha is Central Ket, today only shared with the nearby villages of
Vereshchagino and
Baklanikha, although the dialect was historically centered around the now-uninhabited locality of
Pakulikha.
In 2014, the village numbered 151 inhabitants, including 42 Ket people (27.8%). This sharp decrease from the 1991 count (299 inhabitants, including 91 Ket people) reflects a pattern of population concentration towards the district's major population centers. 7.2% of the village's population is fluent in Ket, with 33.3% more reporting a partial command of the language.
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Ket people
Rural localities in Turukhansky District
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