What is "kureika"

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.

Category:History of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia Category:Rural localities in Krasnoyarsk Krai

Kureika may refer to:

• Kureika River, a tributary of the Yenisei River, Russia
• Kureika Dam, a dam on the Kureika River
• Kureika Reservoir, a reservoir on the Kureika River
• Kureika (village), a village just north of the Arctic Circle near Turukhansk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia