Yeniseysk

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Coordinates: 58°28′N, 92°08′E

Transfiguration Church was built in the 1750s
Transfiguration Church was built in the 1750s

Yeniseysk, also Eniseisk and other variants (Russian: Енисе́йск), is a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. Population: 20,394 (2002 Census); 22,891 (1989 Census); 20,000 (1970). Yeniseysk was founded in 1619 as a stockaded town, it was the first founded town on the Yenisei river. It played an important role in Russian colonization of East Siberia in the 17th–18th centuries. Its old town is included by the Russian government in the country's tentative World Heritage List.

The town is served by Yeniseysk Airport.

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