Tura (; , ''Turu'') is a rural locality (a settlement) and the

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of Evenkiysky District of

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, located in the Syverma Plateau, at the

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of the Kochechum and the Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. Population:

History

Tura was the

Evenk Autonomous Okrug Evenk Autonomous Okrug (, ; , ), or Evenkia, was a federal subject of Russia (an autonomous okrug of Krasnoyarsk Krai). It had been created in 1930. Its administrative center was the urban-type settlement of Tura. As of 2006, at 767,600 ...

before the

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was merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai on January 1, 2007. Until April 2011, it had

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status.

Local government

;Tura Village Council of Deputies of the VI convocation Date of election: 09/08/2019. Term of office: 5 years. Number of deputies: 10. * Chairman of the village Council of Deputies: Albina Zhgunova. ;Head of the village * Tatyana Vorobyova. Date of election: 17 December 2019. Date of entry into office: 14 January 2020. Term of office: 5 years. ;Village leaders * Leonid Bodrenko, head of the village administration in 1992–1994. * Valery Olkhovik, head of the village administration in 1994–1995. * Galina Semyonova, head of the village administration in 1995–1997. * Pyotr Suvorov, head of the village in 2001–2005. and chairman of the council in 2002–2005. * Vladimir Chusteyev, acting head of the village 2005–2006 * Igor Mukto, head of the village and chairman of the council in 2006–2010. * Alexander Chernykh, head of the village administration in 2006–2010. * Alina Sutyagina, head of the village and chairman of the council in 2010–2013. * Evgeniy Bren, head of the village administration in 2010–2013. * Evgeniy Gabrat, acting head of administration in 2013–2014. * Yelena Tsai, acting head of the village administration from January to May 2014. * Igor Mukto, head of the village and chairman of the council in 2014–2018. * Yuri Sadovin, acting head of the village in 2018–2020. * Kim Gubarev, acting chairman of the council in 2018–2019. * Natalya Vershinina, chairman of the council in 2019–2022. * Igor Mukto, chairman of the council in 2022–2023.

Transportation

Tura is served by the Tura Airport. The town and airport are linked together by the A-383 road, though Tura is currently isolated from the Russian road and railway network.

Climate

Tura has a very cold

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(

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''Dfc'') with short, but warm and rainy summers with cool nights and long, bitterly cold winters with little sunshine. Klimadiagramm-Tura-Russland-metrisch-deutsch

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References

External links

History of Tura
{{Use mdy dates, date=February 2013 Rural localities in Krasnoyarsk Krai Road-inaccessible communities of Krasnoyarsk Krai Evenkiysky District