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Kureika is a Russian village just north of the Arctic Circle near Turukhansk in Krasnoyarsk Krai where Joseph Stalin spent his final exile in 1914-1917, before the October Revolution.
Map of Kureika, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, 663253
In 1934 a Stalin museum was built surrounding and preserving the izba (wooden hut) he had lived in during his exile. However, it was destroyed, along with a giant statue, during de-Stalinization in the 1960s.
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