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Turukhansk is a village
Types of settlements in Russia

The classification system of the types of Human settlement in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared to the classification systems in other countries....
 (selo
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
) in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is the list of subdivisions of Russia by area Russian region after the Sakha Republic, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory ....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. It is located 1,474 km north of Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia....
, at the confluence of the Yenisei
Yenisei River

Yenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 5,539 km is the List of rivers by length. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider....
 and Lower Tunguska
Lower Tunguska

The Nizhnyaya Tunguska is a river in Siberia, Russia. It has a length of 2,989 km and is a right tributary of the Yenisei. It flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai....
 rivers. The Turukhan River
Turukhan River

Turukhan River is a river in northern Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Yenisei River. The length of the river is 639 Kilometre....
 joins the Yenisei about 20km northwest. Population: 4,849 (2002 Census
Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
); 8,900 (1989); 200 (1897).






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Coat of Arms of Turukhansk (krasnoyarsk Krai)
Turukhansk is a village
Types of settlements in Russia

The classification system of the types of Human settlement in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and some other post-Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared to the classification systems in other countries....
 (selo
Village

A village is a clustered human settlement or Residential community, larger than a hamlet , but smaller than a town or city. Though generally located in rural areas, the term urban village may be applied to certain urban area neighbourhoods, such as the West Village in Manhattan, New York City and the Saifi Village in Beirut, Lebanon....
) in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . It is the list of subdivisions of Russia by area Russian region after the Sakha Republic, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory ....
, Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
. It is located 1,474 km north of Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai of Russia, and the third largest types of inhabited localities in Russia in Siberia....
, at the confluence of the Yenisei
Yenisei River

Yenisei is the greatest river system flowing to the Arctic Ocean, and at 5,539 km is the List of rivers by length. Rising in Mongolia, it follows a northerly course to the Yenisei Gulf in the Kara Sea, draining a large part of central Siberia, the longest stream following the Yenisei-Angara-Selenga-Ider....
 and Lower Tunguska
Lower Tunguska

The Nizhnyaya Tunguska is a river in Siberia, Russia. It has a length of 2,989 km and is a right tributary of the Yenisei. It flows through the Irkutsk Oblast and the Krasnoyarsk Krai....
 rivers. The Turukhan River
Turukhan River

Turukhan River is a river in northern Krasnoyarsk Krai in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Yenisei River. The length of the river is 639 Kilometre....
 joins the Yenisei about 20km northwest. Population: 4,849 (2002 Census
Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
); 8,900 (1989); 200 (1897). It is served by Turukhansk Airport
Turukhansk Airport

Turukhansk Airport is an airport in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia located 2 km west of Turukhansk. It services medium-size airliners....
.

One of the first Russian settlements in Siberia
Siberia

Siberia , is the name given to the vast region constituting almost all of North Asia and for the most part currently serving as the massive central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, having served in the same capacity previously for the Soviet Union from its beginning, and the Russian Empire beginning in the 16th century....
, Turukhansk was founded in 1607 as a winter camp for Cossacks and merchants. After the disastrous fires of Mangazeya
Mangazeya

Mangazeya was a Northwest Siberian trans-Ural trade colony and later city in the 16-17th centuries. It was situated on the Taz River, between the lower courses of the Ob River and Yenisei River Rivers flowing into the Arctic Ocean....
 in 1619, 1642, and 1662, Turukhansk welcomed a large portion of the older colony's population and became known as New Mangazeya. A timber fort with cannons was built there in 1677. The settlement hosted one of the largest fairs in Siberia and was incorporated as an uyezd
Uyezd

Uyezd or uezd was an admistrative subdivision of Rus' , Muscovy, and Russian Empire used from the 13th century, originally describing groups of several volosts formed around the most important cities....
 town of Turukhansk in 1785. The town declined after 1822.

In the Russian Empire
Russian Empire

File:Russian Emperor Flag.jpgFile:Romanov Flag.svgThe Russian Empire was a state that existed from 1721 until the Russian Revolution of 1917....
 and the Soviet Union
Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a Constitution of the Soviet Union socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.The name is a translation of the , romanization of Russian Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, abbreviated ????, SSSR....
 Turukhansk was often used a destination for political exile. Among people exiled there were Julius Martov
Julius Martov

Julius Martov or L. Martov was born in Istanbul in 1873. The son of Jewish middle class parents, he became the leader of the Mensheviks in early twentieth century Russia....
, Yakov Sverdlov
Yakov Sverdlov

Yakov Mikhaylovich Sverdlov ; known under pseudonyms "Andrei", "Mikhalych", "Max", "Smirnov", "Permyakov" – March 16 1919) was a Bolshevik party leader and an official of the RSFSR....
, Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin

Joseph Stalin was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1953....
, Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev

was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet Union politician. He was briefly the nominal head of the Soviet state in 1917 and a founding member and later chairman of the ruling Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee....
, Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Tsvetaeva

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva was a Russian and Soviet Union poet and writer....
's daughter Ariadna Efron and Archbishop Luka Voyno-Yasenetsky.