Minusinsk

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title: "Minusinsk" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["cities-and-towns-in-krasnoyarsk-krai", "minusinsk-urban-okrug", "yeniseysk-governorate", "populated-places-established-in-1739", "1739-establishments-in-the-russian-empire", "populated-places-on-the-yenisei-river"] description: "Town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia" topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minusinsk" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia ::

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Field	Value
en_name	Minusinsk
ru_name	Минусинск
image_skyline	File:Вид с окна, елка - panoramio.jpg
coordinates
map_label_position	left
image_flag	Flag of Minusinsk (2020).png
image_coa	Coat of arms of Minusinsk (2020).jpg
federal_subject	Krasnoyarsk Krai
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adm_city_jur	krai town of Minusinsk
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adm_ctr_of1	krai town of Minusinsk
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adm_ctr_of2	Minusinsky District
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inhabloc_cat	Town
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urban_okrug_jur	Minusinsk Urban Okrug
urban_okrug_jur_ref
mun_admctr_of1	Minusinsk Urban Okrug
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mun_admctr_of2	Minusinsky Municipal District
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pop_2010census	71170
pop_2010census_rank	220th
pop_2010census_ref
established_date	1739
current_cat_date	1822
dialing_codes	39132
website	http://minusinsk.info/
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Minusinsk (; ) is a historical town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Population: 44,500 (1973).

History

"About 330-200 B.C. the iron age triumphed at Minusinsk, producing spiked axes, partly bronze and partly iron, and a group of large collective burial places." Greco-Roman funerary masks, like those found at Pazyryk, make up the "Minusinsk group: at Trifonova, Bateni, Beya, Kali, Znamenka, etc." "The Indo-European aristocracy with its Sarmatian connections was succeeded at Minusinsk by the Kirghiz after the third century A.D."

The Russian settlement of Minyusinskoye (Минюсинское) was founded in 1739-1740 at the confluence of the Minusa River with the Yenisei. The Turkic Min Usa means "my brook", or "thousand rivers". The name transformed to Minusinskoye (Минусинское) in 1810.

By 1822, Minusinsk had emerged as a regional center of farming and transit trade and was granted town status. During the 19th century, it was a node of cultural activities for a very large area. The Martyanov Natural History Museum was opened there in 1877. It is still very active and publishes a quite useful annual report of its scientific findings, meetings, etc.

The town was also a place of political exile. George Kennan wrote in his very influential book Siberia and the Exile System (NY 1891) of the town and the museum being an intellectual haven for those tsarist political activists and revolutionaries who had been exiled from European Russia in the 1880s. Vladimir Lenin used to visit Minusinsk on numerous occasions when he was in exile in the nearby village of Shushenskoye between 1897 and 1900. In November 1918, during the Russian Civil War, Minusinsk peasants started a short-lived rebellion against the White Army because of extortion and high taxes. However, poor equipment and supplies led to eventual defeat in the December, and the rebels were subjected to execution, exile, prison or fines.

A memorial to those who were executed or died in prison in the 1930s to 1950s was erected in 1992. A monument was added in 2005 in the old cemetery to deported Poles buried there in the 1940s.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Minusinsk serves as the administrative center of Minusinsky District, even though it is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is, together with the urban-type settlement of Zelyony Bor, incorporated separately as the krai town of Minusinsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the krai town of Minusinsk is incorporated as Minusinsk Urban Okrug.

Geography

Minusinsk marks the center of the Minusinsk Hollow, one of the most important archaeological areas north of Pazyryk. It is associated with the Afanasevo, Tashtyk, and Tagar cultures—all of them named after settlements in the vicinity of Minusinsk.

Climate

Minusinsk has a humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb/Dwb), with very cold winters and warm summers. Precipitation is quite low, but is much higher from June to September than at other times of the year.

|location=Minusinsk |metric first=yes |single line=yes |Jan record high C=6.7 |Feb record high C=10.3 |Mar record high C=24.2 |Apr record high C=33.0 |May record high C=37.7 |Jun record high C=38.2 |Jul record high C = 39.3 |Aug record high C = 37.7 |Sep record high C = 35.5 |Oct record high C = 25.8 |Nov record high C = 16.1 |Dec record high C = 7.0 |Jan high C = -11.5 |Feb high C = -7.1 |Mar high C = 2.4 |Apr high C = 12.8 |May high C = 20.0 |Jun high C = 25.7 |Jul high C = 27.3 |Aug high C = 24.9 |Sep high C = 17.6 |Oct high C = 9.1 |Nov high C = -1.5 |Dec high C = -9.0 |Jan mean C = -17.8 |Feb mean C = -14.9 |Mar mean C = -5.0 |Apr mean C = 5.0 |May mean C = 11.7 |Jun mean C = 18.0 |Jul mean C = 20.2 |Aug mean C = 17.3 |Sep mean C = 10.1 |Oct mean C = 2.6 |Nov mean C = -6.4 |Dec mean C = -14.2 |Jan low C = -23.3 |Feb low C = -21.2 |Mar low C = -11.6 |Apr low C = -1.9 |May low C = 3.8 |Jun low C = 10.6 |Jul low C = 13.5 |Aug low C = 10.7 |Sep low C = 4.0 |Oct low C = -2.4 |Nov low C = -10.9 |Dec low C = -19.3 |Jan record low C = -52.2 |Feb record low C = -50.3 |Mar record low C = -46.7 |Apr record low C = -32.3 |May record low C = -10.9 |Jun record low C = -3.5 |Jul record low C = 2.6 |Aug record low C = -2.8 |Sep record low C = -11.5 |Oct record low C = -24.0 |Nov record low C = -42.9 |Dec record low C = -49.4 |Jan precipitation mm = 8 |Feb precipitation mm = 7 |Mar precipitation mm = 9 |Apr precipitation mm = 18 |May precipitation mm = 34 |Jun precipitation mm = 66 |Jul precipitation mm = 69 |Aug precipitation mm = 68 |Sep precipitation mm = 49 |Oct precipitation mm = 25 |Nov precipitation mm = 16 |Dec precipitation mm = 11 |unit precipitation days = 0.1 mm |Jan precipitation days = 11.7 |Feb precipitation days = 7.6 |Mar precipitation days = 7.4 |Apr precipitation days = 11.0 |May precipitation days = 10.0 |Jun precipitation days = 10.7 |Jul precipitation days = 12.7 |Aug precipitation days = 12.1 |Sep precipitation days = 10.0 |Oct precipitation days = 12.7 |Nov precipitation days = 11.3 |Dec precipitation days = 14.8 |Jan humidity = 79.5 |Feb humidity = 74.9 |Mar humidity = 70.5 |Apr humidity = 60.6 |May humidity = 56.5 |Jun humidity = 64.4 |Jul humidity = 71.2 |Aug humidity = 71.9 |Sep humidity = 69.1 |Oct humidity = 75.6 |Nov humidity = 73.4 |Dec humidity = 76.9 |Jan sun = 74.4 |Feb sun = 96.7 |Mar sun = 189.1 |Apr sun = 216.0 |May sun = 254.2 |Jun sun = 276.0 |Jul sun = 272.8 |Aug sun = 232.5 |Sep sun = 165.0 |Oct sun = 105.4 |Nov sun = 84.0 |Dec sun = 49.6 |source 1 = climatebase.ru (1927-2012)

Council of Deputies

The seventh convocation of the City Council was elected on the single voting day in 2022 using a mixed majority-proportional system. The composition included 22 deputies - 11 under the majoritarian system, 11 under the proportional system with a barrier of 5%.

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Party	By district	By list	Result
United Russia	11	6	17
Communist Party of the Russian Federation	0	2	2
Green Party	0	1	1
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia	0	1	1
A Just Russia	0	1	1
	11	11	22
::

The Chairman of the Minusinsk City Council of Deputies since 5 October 2022 is Larisa Ivanovna Chumachenko.

Culture

• Minusinsk Drama Theater Established in 1882 as an amateur theatrical society, the Minusinsk Drama Theater was known as the "Sovtheater" from 1920 to 1930. The theater building was constructed on the initiative of the exiled Kon F.Y. and funded mainly by the fire society. In the beginning, the theater was on the second floor and the fire department took up the first floor. The modern Minusinsk Drama Theater performs in this building until today. Milestones in the theater performances were 'Vasilisa Melentyeva' by Alexander Ostrovsky, 'Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich' by Alexey Tolstoy, 'Death Squadron' by A. Korneichuk, 'Destiny' by Petr Proskurin, 'Is Not Listed' by Boris Vasiliev. A performance of Alexei Cherkasov's drama “Hop” won the Stanislavsky State Prize.
• The Martyanov Natural History Museum (Museum of Local Lore) The main attraction of the town is The Martyanov Natural History Museum. Based in 1877, it is one of the oldest in Siberia and first museum in the Yenisei's guberniya (province).
• Museum of Decembrists in Minusinsk
• Memorial building of Krzhizhanovsky and Starkov
• Minusink Art Gallery
• Museum "Automobiles And Motor Vehicles Of The Soviet Union"

Twin towns and sister cities

Minusinsk is twinned with:

• RUS Norilsk, Russia

References

Notes

Sources

References

1. Law #13-3022
2. {{ru-pop-ref. 2010Census
3. Grousset, Rene. (1970). "The Empire of the Steppes". Rutgers University Press.
4. Н. И. Дроздов, В. С. Боровец "Енисейский энциклопедический словарь". Krasnoyarsk, 1998 ({{ISBN. 5883290051), pp. 391.
5. link. [[Krasnoyarsk]] Administration/[[Siberian Federal University]] Internet Center
6. link. Народная энциклопедия городов и регионов России (The People's Encyclopedia of cities and regions of Russia)
7. link. ХРОНОС
8. https://en.mapofmemory.org/24-51
9. https://en.mapofmemory.org/24-50
10. Law #10-4765
11. Law #13-3049
12. "Minusinsk, Russia". Climatebase.ru.
13. "Центральная избирательная комиссия Российской Федерации".

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