En Name: | Bolshaya Tes |
Ru Name: | Большая Тесь |
Settlement Type: | Abandoned village |
Pushpin Map: | Russia Krasnoyarsk Krai |
Coordinates: | 54.8°N 149°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Russia |
Subdivision Type1: | Federal subject |
Subdivision Name1: | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Novosyolovsky District |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Bolshaya Tes (ru|Большая Тесь) was a rural locality (a (village) in the Novosyolovsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
Bolshaya Tes was named after the Bolshaya Tes River, currently known as, which flowed into the Yenisey near the village.[1] On the maps of the 19th-early 20th centuries, it was called Tesinskaya.[2] [3]
Bolshaya Tes was a village in the Novoselovskaya volost[4] of the Minusinsky Uyezd in Yeniseysk Governorate. It was flooded during the filling of the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir in 1972.
Bolshaya Tes is the birthplace of politician Konstantin Chernenko.[5]