Turukhansky District


Turukhansky District is an administrative and municipal district, one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the west of the krai and borders with Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District in the north, Evenkiysky District in the east, Yeniseysky District in the south, and with Tyumen Oblast in the west. The area of the district is. Its administrative center is the rural locality of Turukhansk. Population: 12,439 ; The population of Turukhansk accounts for 24.9% of the district's total population.

Geography

The following tributaries of the Yenisey flow through the district: the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, the Bakhta River, the Yeloguy River, the Nizhnyaya Tunguska River, the Turukhan River, and the Kureyka River.

History

The district was founded on June 7, 1928. The Central Siberia Nature Reserve was established in a sector of the district in 1985 as a protected area of the East Siberian taiga ecoregion. In 2013 the Museum of Taiga Traditions was established in Bakhta village.

Administrative divisions

Government

As of 2013, the Head of the district and the Chairman of the District Council is Anatoly I. Goloded.

Demographics

The district is home to most of Ket people, a small and declining ethnic group whose language is thought by some linguists to be related to the Na-Dene languages of North American Indians. Nowadays, most of people still speaking Ket live in just three localities: Kellog, Surgutikha, and Maduyka, all of which are situated in Turukhansky District.
Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, the district was predominantly made up of Lithuanians, Germans, Russians, Tatars and Poles. When the Soviet Union fell apart many of these peoples moved back to their respective counties. Turning the entire area into an almost entirely Slavic one populated by Ukrainians, Belorussians, and Russians. Aside from Slavic populations around 10% of the district is made up of Ket people, and a few German families.

Notable people