Turukhansky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-2925 district (

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), one of the forty-three 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 ...

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. It is located in the west of the

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and borders with

Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #2-54 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the north of the krai above the Arctic Circle on the Taymyr P ...

in the north, Evenkiysky District in the east,

Yeniseysky District Yeniseysky District () is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-3140 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the west of the krai and borders with Turukhansky and Evenkiysky Districts i ...

in the south, and with

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in the west. The area of the district is .Official website of Krasnoyarsk Krai
Information about Turukhansky District
Its

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is the rural locality (a '' selo'') of

Turukhansk Turukhansk () is a rural locality (a '' selo'') and the administrative center of Turukhansky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located north of Krasnoyarsk, at the confluence of the Yenisey and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. Until 1924, the t ...

. Population: 12,439 ( 2002 Census); The population of Turukhansk accounts for 24.9% of the district's total population.

Geography

The following

tributaries A tributary, or an ''affluent'', is a stream or river that flows into a larger stream ('' main stem'' or ''"parent"''), river, or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean. Tributaries, and the main stem river into which the ...

of the

Yenisey The Yenisey or Yenisei ( ; , ) is the list of rivers by length, fifth-longest river system in the world, and the largest to drain into the Arctic Ocean. Rising in Mungaragiyn-gol in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course through Lake Baikal a ...

flow through the district: the

Podkamennaya Tunguska River The Podkamennaya Tunguska (, literally ''Tunguska under the stones''; , Ket language, Ket: Ӄо’ль) also known as ''Middle Tunguska'' or ''Stony Tunguska'', is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. History In 1908, an asteroid impacted near th ...

, the

Bakhta River The Bakhta () is a river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is a right hand tributary of the Yenisey. The Bakhta is long, and the area of its basin is . The lower reaches of the river are navigable. Course The Bakhta has its source in the Tungusk ...

, the Yeloguy River, the

Nizhnyaya Tunguska River The Nizhnyaya Tunguska ( rus, Ни́жняя Тунгу́ска, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪjə tʊnˈɡuskə, meaning "Lower Tunguska") is a river in Siberia, Russia, that flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai. The river is a right tributa ...

, the

Turukhan River The Turukhan () is a river in northern Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia. It is a southeast-flowing left tributary of the Yenisey. The river is long. The area of its basin is . The Turukhan freezes up in October and stays under the ice until late May ...

, and the

Kureyka 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 elongate ...

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 Ariadna Sergeyevna Efron (; 26 July 1975) was a Russian poet, memoirist, artist, art critic, and translator of prose and poetry. Her original poems, except for those written in childhood, were not printed during her lifetime. She was a daughte ...

(1949-1955) were banished. One center of such imprisonments was the

gulag The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' originally referred only to the division of the Chronology of Soviet secret police agencies, Soviet secret police that was in charge of runnin ...

Yermakovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai Yermakovo () is an urban-type settlement in Krasnoyarsk krai near the town of Igarka in Siberia. It was built in 1949 as a gulag The Gulag was a system of Labor camp, forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. The word ''Gulag'' origin ...

, built 1949 under the orders of

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 ...

, who himself had spent 1913 to 1917 exiled in the area. The prison was dismantled in 1955 two years after his death. Later, the

Central Siberia Nature Reserve Central Siberia Nature Reserve () (also Tsentralnosibirsky) is a Russian 'zapovednik' (strict nature reserve). With over 1 million hectares of protected area, it is one of the largest forest reserves in the world. The reserve is located in the ...

was established in a sector of the district in 1985 as a

protected area Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural or cultural values. Protected areas are those areas in which human presence or the exploitation of natural resources (e.g. firewood ...

of the

East Siberian taiga The East Siberian taiga ecoregion, in the taiga and boreal forests biome, is a very large biogeographic region in eastern Russia. Setting This vast ecoregion is located in the heart of Siberia, stretching over 20° of latitude and 50° of longit ...

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. In 2013 the Museum of Taiga Traditions was established in Bakhta village.

Administrative divisions

Government

; Turukhansky District Council of Deputies of the VI convocation Date of election: 13/09/2020 Term of office: 5 years ; Factions ; Chairman * Yuri Tagirov ; Head of the Turukhansky District * Oleg Sheremetyev. Date of election: 27/11/2020. Term of office: 5 years.

Demographics

The district is home to most of

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 ...

, a small

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ethnic group whose language is thought by some linguists to be related to the

Na-Dene languages Na-Dene ( ; also Nadene, Na-Dené, Athabaskan–Eyak–Tlingit, Tlina–Dene) is a family of Native American languages that includes at least the Athabaskan languages, Eyak, and Tlingit languages. Haida was formerly included but is now genera ...

of North America. Nowadays, most of people still speaking Ket live in just three localities:

Kellog Kellog (, Ket: , ) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Turukhansky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.Law #10-4765 It is located by the Yeloguy River, a left tributary of the Yenisey.Елогуй, Great Soviet Encyclopedia in 30 vols. / Ch. ...

Surgutikha Surgutikha is a rural locality in Turukhansky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located along the Surgutikha river. Population Surgutikha is one of the few remaining localities natively inhabited by the Ket people Kets (; Ket: ке� ...

, and Maduyka, all of which are situated in Turukhansky District. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the district was predominantly made up of Lithuanians, Germans, Russians, Tatars and Poles. When the Soviet Union fell apart, many of these peoples moved back to their respective countries, turning the entire area into an almost entirely Slavic one populated by

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, and

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. Aside from Slavic populations, around 10% of the district is made up of Ket people, and a few German families.

Notable people

lived in exile on the territory of the modern district before the

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. * Alexander Kotusov (1955 - 2019), Ket folk singer, composer and writer of songs in the

Ket language The Ket ( ) language, or more specifically Imbak and formerly known as Yenisei Ostyak ( ), is a Siberian language long thought to be an isolate, the sole surviving language of a Yeniseian language family. It is spoken along the middle Yenise ...

.Siberian Lang - Alexander Maksimovich Kotusov
/ref> * Vasilina Makovtseva (born 1977), film and theater actress.

References

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* * * {{Use mdy dates, date=February 2013 Districts of Krasnoyarsk Krai States and territories established in 1928