Noginsk was a settlement in the Tunguska Plateau, in the western Evenkiyskiy District, Krasnoyarsk Krai.

A graphite mine was opened in Noginsk in the same year and was supplied to pencil factories in St Petersburg and other cities.

During the Soviet era, the settlement developed thanks to the extraction of graphite, and helped to encourage the settlement and development of the Far North of the former USSR.

Noginsk had the third largest deposit of coal and graphite in the Soviet Union, amounting to around 9 million tons; however, due to the cost of extracting it, operations at the mine ceased shortly after the collapse of the USSR when the extraction company closed.

[1] The population of the village, which had grown to more than 700 people during the Soviet era, quickly fell nearly as low as 100 after the closure of the graphite mine.