Kureika (village)

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.

[citation needed] Here Joseph Stalin spent his final exile in 1914–1916.

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.

This Krasnoyarsk Krai location article is a stub.

The grave of a Yenisei ostyak with a sledge near Kureika, 1913. The picture of F. Nansen