| En Name: | Turukhansky District |
| Ru Name: | Туруханский район |
| Image View: | Туруханский заповедник.jpg |
| Coordinates: | 64°N 88°W |
| Image Coa: | Coat of Arms of Turukhansk (Krasnoyarsk krai).png |
| Federal Subject: | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
| Adm Data As Of: | January 2014 |
| Adm Ctr Type: | selo |
| Adm Ctr Name: | Turukhansk |
| Town Of District Significance Type: | District towns |
| No Of Towns Of District Significance: | 1 |
| Selsoviet Type1: | Selsoviets |
| No Of Selsoviets Type1: | 6 |
| No Of Cities Towns: | 1 |
| No Of Rural Localities: | 33 |
| Mun Data As Of: | January 2014 |
| Mun Formation1: | Turukhansky Municipal District |
| Mun Formation1 No Of Urban Settlements: | 1 |
| Mun Formation1 No Of Rural Settlements: | 6 |
| Mun Formation1 Leader Title: | Head |
| Mun Formation1 Leader Title Ref: | [1] |
| Mun Formation1 Leader Name: | Anatoly I. Goloded |
| Mun Formation1 Representative Body: | Turukhansky District Council of Deputies |
| Area Of What: | municipal district |
| Area Km2: | 211189 |
| Pop 2010Census: | 18708 |
| Urban Pop 2010Census: | 38.5% |
| Rural Pop 2010Census: | 61.5% |
| Established Date: | June 7, 1928 |
| Website: | http://www.admtr.ru/ |
| Date: | September 2013 |
Turukhansky District (Russian: Туруха́нский райо́н) is an administrative[2] and municipal[3] district (raion), 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 211189km2.[4] Its administrative center is the rural locality (a selo) of Turukhansk. Population: 12,439 (2002 Census); The population of Turukhansk accounts for 24.9% of the district's total population.
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.
The district was founded on June 7, 1928. Historically the area served as a site of exile, to which individuals such as Ariadna Èfron (1949-1955) were banished. One center of such imprisonments was the gulag at Yermakovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai, built 1949 under the orders of Joseph Stalin, who himself had spent 1913 to 1917 exiled in the area. The prison was dismantled in 1955 two years after his death.
Later, 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.[5] In 2013 the Museum of Taiga Traditions was established in Bakhta village.[6]
| Municipal division | Russian name | Administrative center | Number of seats | km2 | Inhabitants (2017) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Urban settlement | ||||||||
| Igarka | город Игарка | align=right | 1 | align=right | 117,20 | align=right | 4754 | |
| Rural settlements | ||||||||
| Borsky Selsoviet | Борский сельсовет | align=right | 4 | align=right | 598,88 | align=right | 2574 | |
| Verknheimbatsky Selsoviet | Верхнеимбатский сельсовет | align=right | 2 | align=right | 751,43 | align=right | 510 | |
| Vorogovsky Selsoviet | Вороговский сельсовет | align=right | 3 | align=right | 24,62 | align=right | 1377 | |
| Zotinsky Selsoviet | Зотинский сельсовет | align=right | 1 | align=right | 200,00 | align=right | 447 | |
| Svetlogorsky Selsoviet | Светлогорский сельсовет | align=right | 1 | align=right | 3,50 | align=right | 876 | |
| Turukhansky Selsoviet | Туруханский сельсовет | align=right | 2 | align=right | 1,86 | align=right | 4289 | |
| Inter-Settlement Territory | ||||||||
| Межселенная территория | align=right | 20 | ||||||
| Faction | Deputies |
|---|---|
| 12 | |
| 2 | |
| 3 | |
| 4 | |
The district is home to most of Ket people, a small Yeniseian ethnic group whose language is thought by some linguists to be related to the Na-Dene languages of North America. 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 countries, turning the entire area into an almost entirely Slavic one populated by Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians. Aside from Slavic populations, around 10% of the district is made up of Ket people, and a few German families.