Chekurovka (russian: Чекуровка; sah, Чекуровка) is a
rural locality (a ''
selo''), in Bulunsky National (Evenk) Rural Okrug of
Bulunsky District in the
Sakha Republic
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,
Russia
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, located
Kyusyur
Kyusyur (russian: Кюсюр; sah, Күһүүр, translit=Kühüür) is a rural locality (a '' selo''), the only inhabited locality, and the administrative center of Bulunsky Rural Okrug of the Bulunsky District in the Sakha Republic, Russia, loca ...
, the administrative centre of the rural okrug and from
Tiksi, the administrative center of the district.
[''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''] Its population as of the
2010 Census was 0,
[Sakha Republic Territorial Branch of the ]Federal State Statistics Service
The Federal State Statistics Service (russian: Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Росстат), ''Federal'naya sluzhba gosudarstvennoi statistiki (Rosstat)'') is the governmental statistics ...
. Results of the 2010 All-Russian Census
Численность населения по районам, городским и сельским населённым пунктам
(''Population Counts by Districts, Urban and Rural Inhabited Localities'') the same as recorded during the
2002 Census.
Geography
Located on the Lena River, Chekurovka is north of the center of the rural settlements Kyusyur and southwest of Tiksi.
History
Prior to the dissolution of the village in 1970, Chekurovka was the centre of the ''Victory''
collective farm
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consisting of five reindeer herds, ten hunting areas and three fishing areas capable of producing up to one hundred tons of fish.
During its height, approximately one hundred families lived in the village supported by a primary school, club, shop, bakery and medical centre.
In 1970, the population was forcibly moved and the village closed whilst nearby an underground nuclear explosion was carried out and a search for oil and gas was made.
In 1992, families of former residents decided to resettle the site of the former village, with the site now consisting of two houses, a power plant and storage facilities employing 65 people.
References
Notes
Sources
*Official website of the Sakha Republic. ''Registry of the Administrative-Territorial Divisions of the Sakha Republic''
Bulunsky District.
*
Rural localities in Bulunsky District
Populated places on the Lena River
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