Kureyka

The Kureyka is a major right tributary of the Yenisey in , . It falls from the to the vast taiga plain of Northern and flows northward passing through a series of elongated lakes, including the Yadun, Anama, and Dyupkun lakes.
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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

Places in the Area

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Hamlet
Kureika is a Russian village just north of the Arctic Circle near in , by the confluence of Kureika River and Yenisey. Here Joseph Stalin spent his final exile in 1914–1916. is situated 4 km south of Kureyka.

Kureyka

Latitude
66.5° or 66° 30′ north
Longitude
87.2° or 87° 12′ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
9MR9G52X+2X
Geo­Names ID
1501329
Wiki­data ID
Q909457
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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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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kureyka”. Photo: Butorin, CC BY-SA 4.0.