Poligus
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Poligus
Полигус | |
|---|---|
Location of Poligus  | |
  Poligus Location of Poligus  Poligus Poligus (Krasnoyarsk Krai) | |
| Coordinates: 61°59′20″N 94°39′30″E / 61.98889°N 94.65833°E | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Krasnoyarsk Krai[1] |
| Administrative district | Evenkiysky District[1] |
| Elevation | 140 m (460 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 302 |
| 242 | |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (MSK+4  [3]) |
| Postal code(s)[4] | 648371 |
| OKTMO ID | 04650420101 |
Poligus (Russian: По́лигус) is a rural locality in Evenkiysky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River, 380 km from the district center. The village name is of Evenki origin,[5] of a legendary Poligus shaman[6](Фёдор Полигус[7]).
The village has a kindergarten, schools, district hospital, rural culture house, post office, shop, weather station, fuel storage.[8]
The population of Poligus, as of January 1, 2015, was 242.[2]
Population:
2012 - 282
2013 - 262
2014 - 244
2015 - 242
| Population | ||||||
| 2002 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 |
| 408 | 411 | 362 | 363 | 353 | 330 | 302 |
Ethnic structure (2005): Selkups 0, Kets 3, Evenkis 262.[9]
According to another source: Russians 29%, Evenkis 67%, Ukrainians 4%.[10][circular reference]
According to the expedition of 2005 the demographic situation in Poligus: a population of 492 people, Evenki 292 people (59%). Intrafamily language transmission was interrupted. Children speak only Russian, although some know a small amount of Evenk words. Some young people understood some Evenki as well. Evenki language spoken only among the forty-fifty years generation. Some families live on deer keeping, but traditional economy can not prevent the loss of the ethnic language.[9]
History
A 1904, 1906, 1913 and 1923 ethnographic, scientific expeditions were led to the location by Alexei Makarenko (b. 1860) a Siberian studies ethnographer and writer .[11]
In Soviet times, the local farm "Poligusovsky" (Полигусовский) kept up to 10 thousand reindeer. Today the main occupations include hunting, harvesting, purchasing, processing and fur marketing.[8]
Status and borders of rural settlements established by the Law of the Krasnoyarsk Territory on October 6, 2011, No. 13–6271 "On establishing the boundaries of the municipality Evenk municipal district and located within its boundaries of other municipalities"