Yermakovo
Ермаково
Urban-type settlement
Location of Yermakovo
Yermakovo is located in Russia
Yermakovo
Yermakovo
Location of Yermakovo
Yermakovo is located in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Yermakovo
Yermakovo
Yermakovo (Krasnoyarsk Krai)
Coordinates: 66°35′N 86°11′E / 66.583°N 86.183°E / 66.583; 86.183
CountryRussia
Federal subjectKrasnoyarsk Krai
Administrative districtTurukhansky District
Founded1949
Here is one of the typical houses with the three "front buildings" in the civil area of the old settlement Yermakovo.

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.

References

    • "Joseph Stalin's deadly railway to nowhere (BBC)".
    • "Train To Nowhere".


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