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Yermakovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai

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Country
  
Russia

Administrative district
  
Turukhansky District

Founded
  
1949

Federal subject
  
Krasnoyarsk Krai

Time zone
  
KRAT (UTC+07:00)

Yermakovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai

Yermakovo (Russian: Ермако́во) is an urban-type settlement in Krasnoyarsk krai near the town of Igarka in Siberia. It was built in 1949 as a gulag to house the prisoners constructing the Salekhard–Igarka Railway. By 1955 it was abandoned. It was revitalised in the 2000s as a tourist town. The population in 2011 was 12. The main attraction for the town is a unique gulag museum.

Map of Ermakovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, 663213

References

Yermakovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai Wikipedia


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