Kureika (village)

Coordinates: 66°28′01″N 87°10′16″E / 66.467°N 87.171°E / 66.467; 87.171

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.

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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