Volochanka () is a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the district town of

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in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of

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. It is located on the

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in the

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Волочанка
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History

In 1932, native leaders of three nationalities, including the Dolgan and Yakuts, started a civil uprising in Volochanka against the Bolsheviks; twenty Party workers were killed and many others wounded in the event.

Demographics

The inhabitants include representatives of Taymyr,

Dolgans Dolgans (; ; ) are a Turkicized Tungusic ethnic group who mostly inhabit Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. They are descended from several groups, particularly Evenks, one of the Indigenous peoples of the Russian North. Dolgans are the most closely r ...

, and Nganasan indigenous peoples.

Infrastructure

The settlement has a boarding school, kindergarten, district hospital, rural cultural center, a library, a branch of the Federal Postal Service, Department of "Telecommunications", and weather station.

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Information about Volochanka
{{Authority control Rural localities in Krasnoyarsk Krai Populated places of Arctic Russia Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District