{{Infobox Russian inhabited locality |en_name=Volochanka |ru_name=Волочанка |image_skyline= |image_caption= |coordinates = {{coord|70|58|38|N|94|32|39|E|display=inline,title}} |map_label_position=top |image_coa= |coa_caption= |image_flag= |flag_caption= |anthem= |anthem_ref= |holiday= |holiday_ref= |federal_subject=Krasnoyarsk Krai |federal_subject_ref= |adm_district_jur=Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District |adm_district_jur_ref= |adm_selsoviet_jur=Dudinka |adm_selsoviet_type=District town |adm_selsoviet_jur_ref= |inhabloc_cat=Rural locality |inhabloc_cat_ref= |inhabloc_type=Settlement |inhabloc_type_ref= |mun_district_jur= |mun_district_jur_ref= |urban_settlement_jur= |urban_settlement_jur_ref= |mun_admctr_of= |mun_admctr_of_ref= |leader_title= |leader_title_ref= |leader_name= |leader_name_ref= |representative_body= |representative_body_ref= |area_of_what= |area_as_of= |area_km2= |area_km2_ref= |pop_2010census= |pop_2010census_ref= |pop_density= |pop_density_as_of= |pop_density_ref= |pop_latest=530 |pop_latest_date=2010 |pop_latest_ref=<ref name="Krasstat" /> |established_date= |established_title= |established_date_ref= |current_cat_date= |current_cat_date_ref= |prev_name1= |prev_name1_date= |prev_name1_ref= |postal_codes= |postal_codes_ref= |dialing_codes= |dialing_codes_ref= |website= }} '''Volochanka''' ({{langx|ru|Волоча́нка}}) is a rural locality (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the district town of Dudinka in Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.<ref name="ResearchHealth1996">{{cite book|author1=Nordic Council for Arctic Medical Research|author2=International Union for Circumpolar Health|title=Arctic medical research|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=na5OAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=August 11, 2012|year=1996|publisher=Nordic Council for Arctic Medical Research|page=5}}</ref> It is located on the Kheta River in the Taymyr Peninsula. Population: 530 people (2010 est.).<ref name="Krasstat">Территориальный орган федеральной службы государственной статистики по Красноярскому краю. [http://www.krasstat.gks.ru/news/vpn2010/DocLib4/2.%20%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B9%20%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%B2%20%D0%B8%20%D1%81%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%8F%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%20%D0%B2%20%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B5/2.4%20%D0%A7%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D1%8C%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%83%20%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F,%20%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B7%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D1%83%20%D0%B8%20%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%83/%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BC%D1%8B%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%20%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE-%D0%9D%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%86%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BE%D0%BD/%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0.xlsx Волочанка] (xls){{dead link|date=May 2013}} {{in lang|ru}}</ref>

==History== In 1932, native leaders of three nationalities, including the Dolgan and Yakuts, started a civil uprising in Volochanka against the Bolsheviks; twenty Party workers were killed and many others wounded in the event.<ref name="Soto2000">{{cite book|last=Soto|first=Hermine G. De|title=Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists In Postsocialist States|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xLhTxdx7VaQC&pg=PA135|accessdate=May 23, 2013|date=August 31, 2000|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press|isbn=978-0-299-16374-7|page=135}}</ref><ref name="SchweitzerBiesele2000">{{cite book|last1=Schweitzer|first1=Peter P.|last2=Biesele|first2=Megan|last3=Hitchcock|first3=Robert K.|title=Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8BYVStb-zVAC&pg=PA232|accessdate=May 23, 2013|year=2000|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=978-1-57181-101-1|page=232}}</ref>

==Demographics== The inhabitants include representatives of Taymyr, Dolgans, and Nganasan indigenous peoples.

==Infrastructure== The settlement has a boarding school, kindergarten, district hospital, rural cultural center, a library, a branch of the Federal Postal Service, Department of "Telecommunications", and weather station.

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==External links== *[http://www.gorod-dudinka.ru/volochanka Information about Volochanka] {{in lang|ru}}

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Category:Rural localities in Krasnoyarsk Krai Category:Populated places of Arctic Russia Category:Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District