Tura (; , Turu) is a rural locality (a settlement) and the administrative center of Evenkiysky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located in the Syverma Plateau, at the confluence of the Kochechum and the Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers. Population:
History
Tura was the administrative center of Evenk Autonomous Okrug before the okrug was merged into Krasnoyarsk Krai on January 1, 2007. Until April 2011, it had urban-type settlement 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 1992âÂÂ1994.
- Valery Olkhovik, head of the village administration in 1994âÂÂ1995.
- Galina Semyonova, head of the village administration in 1995âÂÂ1997.
- Pyotr Suvorov, head of the village in 2001âÂÂ2005. and chairman of the council in 2002âÂÂ2005.
- Vladimir Chusteyev, acting head of the village 2005âÂÂ2006
- Igor Mukto, head of the village and chairman of the council in 2006âÂÂ2010.
- Alexander Chernykh, head of the village administration in 2006âÂÂ2010.
- Alina Sutyagina, head of the village and chairman of the council in 2010âÂÂ2013.
- Evgeniy Bren, head of the village administration in 2010âÂÂ2013.
- Evgeniy Gabrat, acting head of administration in 2013âÂÂ2014.
- 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 2014âÂÂ2018.
- Yuri Sadovin, acting head of the village in 2018âÂÂ2020.
- Kim Gubarev, acting chairman of the council in 2018âÂÂ2019.
- Natalya Vershinina, chairman of the council in 2019âÂÂ2022.
- Igor Mukto, chairman of the council in 2022âÂÂ2023.
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 subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) with short, but warm and rainy summers with cool nights and long, bitterly cold winters with little sunshine.
In Popular Culture
The fictional fantasy novel 'Whisper In The Woods' by Edmund Hale takes place in Tura.
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