Kureyka


The Kureyka is a major right tributary of the Yenisey in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
The Kureyka basin is very sparsely populated. The village of Kureyka used to have a museum dedicated to Joseph Stalin, who was exiled there in 1914–17. The Kureyskaya Hydroelectric Station was built in 1975–2002. It is served by the people from, a townlet sitting just above the Kureyka Reservoir. Plans for :ru:Нижне-Курейская ГЭС|another power station somewhere downstream are under consideration.

Course

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. It is long. The river drains an area of about. At the confluence, it is more than wide.
Its valley forms the northern boundary of the Tunguska Plateau.