# Volochanka

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**Volochanka** (Russian: Волоча́нка) is a [rural locality](/source/Types_of_inhabited_localities_in_Russia) (a settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the [district town](/source/Town_of_district_significance) of [Dudinka](/source/Dudinka) in [Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District](/source/Taymyrsky_Dolgano-Nenetsky_District) of [Krasnoyarsk Krai](/source/Krasnoyarsk_Krai), [Russia](/source/Russia).[1] It is located on the [Kheta River](/source/Kheta_River) in the [Taymyr Peninsula](/source/Taymyr_Peninsula). Population: 530 people (2010 est.).[2]

## 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.[3][4]

## Demographics

The inhabitants include representatives of Taymyr, [Dolgans](/source/Dolgans), and [Nganasan](/source/Nganasan_people) 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.

## References

1. Nordic Council for Arctic Medical Research & International Union for Circumpolar Health (1996). [*Arctic medical research*](https://books.google.com/books?id=na5OAQAAIAAJ). Nordic Council for Arctic Medical Research. p. 5. Retrieved August 11, 2012.

1. Территориальный орган федеральной службы государственной статистики по Красноярскому краю. [Волочанка](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) (xls)[dead link] (in Russian)

1. Soto, Hermine G. De (August 31, 2000). [*Fieldwork Dilemmas: Anthropologists In Postsocialist States*](https://books.google.com/books?id=xLhTxdx7VaQC&pg=PA135). Univ of Wisconsin Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-299-16374-7. Retrieved May 23, 2013.

1. Schweitzer, Peter P.; Biesele, Megan; Hitchcock, Robert K. (2000). [*Hunters and Gatherers in the Modern World: Conflict, Resistance, and Self-Determination*](https://books.google.com/books?id=8BYVStb-zVAC&pg=PA232). Berghahn Books. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-57181-101-1. Retrieved May 23, 2013.

## External links

- [Information about Volochanka](http://www.gorod-dudinka.ru/volochanka) (in Russian)

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