Kureyka
The Kureyka is a major right tributary of the Yenisey in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It falls from the Putorana Plateau to the vast taiga plain of Northern Siberia and flows northward passing through a series of elongated lakes, including the Yadun, Anama, and Dyupkun lakes.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia
- Also known as: “Kureika”, “Kureika River”, “Kureyka River”, “Liuma”, “Liuma River”, “Lyuma”, and “Lyuma River”
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Kureyka
Hamlet
Kureika is a Russian village just north of the Arctic Circle near Turukhansk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, by the confluence of Kureika River and Yenisey. Here Joseph Stalin spent his final exile in 1914–1916. Kureyka is situated 4 km south of Kureyka.
Kureyka
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Kureyka” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Կուրեյկա”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kureyka”
- Basque: “Kureika”
- Belarusian: “Курэйка”
- Belarusian: “Рака Курэйка”
- Bulgarian: “Курейка”
- Cebuano: “Kureyka”
- Chinese: “库列伊卡河”
- Chinese: “庫列伊卡河”
- Czech: “Kurejka”
- Czech: “Ljuma”
- Czech: “Numa”
- Dutch: “Koerejka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كوريكا”
- Estonian: “Kureika jõgi”
- Finnish: “Kureika”
- Finnish: “Ljuma”
- French: “Koureika”
- French: “Koureïka”
- Georgian: “კურეიკა”
- German: “Kureika”
- Hungarian: “Kurejka”
- Ido: “Rivero Kureika (Yenisei)”
- Ido: “Rivero Kureika”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kureika”
- Italian: “Kurejka”
- Italian: “Kureyka”
- Japanese: “クレイカ川”
- Lithuanian: “Kureika”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kurejka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kurejka”
- Persian: “رود کوریکا”
- Polish: “Kurejka”
- Romanian: “Kureika”
- Romanian: “Liuma”
- Romanian: “Râul Kureika”
- Romanian: “Râul Liuma”
- Russian: “Курейка”
- Russian: “Люма”
- Russian: “Нума”
- Spanish: “Kureika”
- Spanish: “Rio Kureika”
- Spanish: “Río Kureika”
- Ukrainian: “Курейка”
- Venetian: “Fiume Kureika”
- Welsh: “Afon Kureika”
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