Yermakovo
Abandoned village · Russia
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1949
- Population
- 44
- Coordinates
- 66.583, 86.183
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: It was built in 1949 as a Gulag labor camp to house the prisoners constructing the Salekhard–Igarka Railway.
History
Yermakovo is an abandoned urban-type settlement in Krasnoyarsk krai near the town of Igarka in Siberia. It was built in 1949 as a Gulag labor camp to house the prisoners constructing the Salekhard–Igarka Railway. It also housed the administrative center of the construction. By 1955 it was abandoned. It was revitalised in the 2000s as a tourist town. The population in 2011 was 12. The main attraction for the town is a Gulag museum.