Kureika (village)
Kureika
Куре́йка | |
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(a posyolok) | |
Village of Kureika (c. 1939), including the home where Joseph Stalin lived with Lidiya Pereprygina | |
Interactive map of Kureika | |
Kureika Location of Kureika Kureika Kureika (Krasnoyarsk Krai) | |
| Coordinates: 66°28′1″N 87°10′21″E / 66.46694°N 87.17250°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
| Administrative district | Turukhansky District |
| Population | |
• Estimate (2010) | 78 ) |
| • Municipal district | Turukhansky Municipal District |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (MSK+4 [1]) |
| Postal code[2] | 663213 |
| OKTMO ID | 04654701942 |
Kureika (Russian: Куре́йка) is a Russian village just north of the Arctic Circle near Turukhansk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, by the confluence of Kureika River and Yenisey.
History
During the 1910s, the village was a small hamlet containing only eight or ten wooden homes with villagers living in impoverished conditions.[4]
Joseph Stalin spent his final exile in Kureika from March 1914 until October 1916. Stalin moved in with fellow a Bolshevik, Yakov Sverdlov, but Stalin soon moved out due to rising tensions between the two, moving in instead with the Pereprygina family.[4] According to his cohabitant Lidiya Pereprygina, Stalin spent much of his time away from the village itself, fishing and hunting with a khanty named Martin Peterin, and when he did spend time in the village it resting, reading, or joining in local festivities.[5]
In 1938, the Stalin museum in Kureika 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 in 1961, and the pavilion was burnt in a fire in 1996.[6]
Population
| 1989[7] | 422 |
| 2002[7] | 181 |
| 2010[8] | 78 |
References
- ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
- ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
- ^ a b Kun, Miklós (2003), Stalin: An Unknown Portrait, translated by Bodóczky, Miklós; Hideg, Rachel; Higed, János; Vörös, Miklós, Budapest: Central European University Press, p. 168, ISBN 963-9241-19-9
- ^ Suny, R. G. (2020). Stalin: Passage to Revolution. Princeton University Press. pp. 559–560. ISBN 978-0691182032.
- ^ "Тень тирана в сибирской глубинке" ("Tyrant's Shadow in Siberian Outback"), Novaya Gazeta
- ^ a b "ИТОГИ ВСЕРОССИЙСКОЙ ПЕРЕПИСИ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ 2002 ГОДА. Сельские населенные пункты Красноярского края. Госкомстат России, Красноярск, 2004".
- ^ "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Итоги по Красноярскому краю. 1.10 Численность населения гор.округов, мун.районов, гор. и сел. поселе".