Kureika (village)

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Kureika is a village just north of the Arctic Circle near Turukhansk in Krasnoyarsk Krai where Joseph Stalin spent his final exile 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 this, along with a giant statue was destroyed during de-Stalinization in the 1960s.


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