Turukhansk
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Turuchansk
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Turuchansk ( Russian Туруханск ) is a village (selo) in the Krasnoyarsk Territory , Russia . It is located just south of the Arctic Circle at the confluence of the Lower Tunguska with the Yenisei . Turuchansk has 4662 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). The village is the administrative center of the Rajons Turuchanski .
history
In the first half of the 17th century, former residents of Mangaseya settled in Turukhansk , who had left this place as a result of multiple fires. Because of this fact, Turukhansk was known as New Mangaseya (Novaya Mangaseya) for many years . From the second half of the 17th century to the end of the 18th century, Turukhansk benefited from the abundance of fur animals. The annual Turukhansk market attracted traders not only from Siberia , but also from the European part of Russia. In 1782 it received city rights. From the beginning of the 19th century, Turukhansk lost its importance and in 1897 only had about 200 inhabitants. In 1917 Turukhansk's city rights were revoked.
The place became famous through the exile of Josef Stalin . He was arrested in Saint Petersburg in February 1913 and sentenced to four years' exile in Turukhansk.
Population development
| year | Residents |
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| 1897 | 212 |
| 1939 | 3475 |
| 1959 | 3834 |
| 1970 | 3876 |
| 1979 | 5793 |
| 1989 | 8869 |
| 2002 | 4849 |
| 2010 | 4662 |
Note: census data
economy
The Vankor oil field, discovered in 1988, is located 130 km west of Igarka in Turukhansk district . The reserves are estimated at around 220 million tons of oil and around 90 billion cubic meters of gas. The official inauguration of the conveyor systems by Vladimir Putin followed in August 2009 . On December 28, 2009, the first freighter carrying oil from Vankor left the port of Kosmino at the end of the East Siberia-Pacific pipeline .
In another project, the largest hydropower plant in Russia is to be built on the Lower Tunguska by 2018 . [outdated]
See also
Web links
- Turuchansk Polar Census Expedition 1926-27
- Picturing Central Siberia
- Travel report 1998
- Museum of Political Exile
- Siberia's Stream of Destiny: The Yenisei (3/3)
- ROSNEFT - Vankor Oilfield
swell
- ↑ a b Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
- ↑ OJSC Rosneft Oil Company: Annual Report 2009 (PDF; 9.5 MB) Accessed May 1, 2010 (English).
