Volochanka
Волочанка
Settlement
Location of Volochanka
Volochanka is located in Russia
Volochanka
Volochanka
Location of Volochanka
Volochanka is located in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Volochanka
Volochanka
Volochanka (Krasnoyarsk Krai)
Coordinates: 70°58′38″N 94°32′39″E / 70.97722°N 94.54417°E / 70.97722; 94.54417
CountryRussia
Federal subjectKrasnoyarsk Krai
Administrative districtTaymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District
District townDudinka
Population
  Estimate 
(2010)[1]
530
Time zoneUTC+7 (MSK+4 Edit this on Wikidata[2])
Postal code(s)[3]
647506, 647235Edit this on Wikidata
OKTMO ID04653101106

Volochanka (Russian: Волоча́нка) is a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the district town of Dudinka in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.[4] It is located on the Kheta River in the Taymyr Peninsula. Population: 530 people (2010 est.).[1]

History

In 1932, native leaders of three nationalities, including the Dolgan and Yakuts, started a civil uprising in Volochanka against the Bolsheviks; twenty Party workers were killed and many others wounded in the event.[5][6]

Demographics

The inhabitants include representatives of Taymyr, Dolgans, and Nganasan indigenous peoples.

Infrastructure

The settlement has a boarding school, kindergarten, district hospital, rural cultural center, a library, a branch of the Federal Postal Service, Department of "Telecommunications", and weather station.

References

  1. 1 2 Территориальный орган федеральной службы государственной статистики по Красноярскому краю. Волочанка (xls) (in Russian)
  2. "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). June 3, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  3. Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  4. Nordic Council for Arctic Medical Research; International Union for Circumpolar Health (1996). Arctic medical research. Nordic Council for Arctic Medical Research. p. 5. Retrieved August 11, 2012.
  5. Soto, Hermine G. De (August 31, 2000). Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists In Postsocialist States. Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-299-16374-7. Retrieved May 23, 2013.
  6. Schweitzer, Peter P.; Biesele, Megan; Hitchcock, Robert K. (2000). Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination. Berghahn Books. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-57181-101-1. Retrieved May 23, 2013.

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