Evenkiysky District (, ), or Evenkia (),According to Article 2.4 of the Charter of Evenkiysky Municipal District, the names "Evenkiysky Municipal District" and "Evenkia" have equal status. is an administrativeLaw #10-4765 and municipalLaw #13-6271 district (raion), one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsky Krai, Russia. Before 1 January 2007, it was split into three different districts - Baykitsky, Ilimpiyskiy and Tungussko-Chunsky - as the Evenk Autonomous Okrug—a federal subject (an autonomous okrug) of Russia.
It is located in the central and eastern parts of the krai and borders with Taymyrsky Dolgano-Nenetsky District in the north, the Sakha Republic and Irkutsk Oblast in the east, Kezhemsky, Boguchansky, Motyginsky, and Severo-Yeniseysky Districts & Yeniseysky District in the south, and with Turukhansky District in the west. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a settlement) of Tura.
Population: The population of Tura accounts for 34.1% of the district's total population.
Geography River Arga-Sala, the largest tributary of the Olenyok, has its sources in the district. Lake Yessey and Suringda are among of the largest in the area.Google Earth The southeastern coast of Lake Vivi is a geographical center of Russia.
History The district was founded on December 4, 2006.Law #652
On 15 March 2019 there was a meteorite that made headlines, called the New Tunguska meteorite. A piece was recovered from the bottom of the Podkamennaya Tunguska River near the village of Uchami in the Krasnoyarsk region. The location is 420 kilometres from the site of the large Tunguska Event of 1908.Russian scientists' locate site of Evenkia meteorite’s impact'
Government As of 2026, the Head of the district is Andrey V. Gayulsky.Official website of Krasnoyarsk Krai.Information about Evenkiysky District
Demographics Vital statistics Source: Russian Federal State Statistics Service
Average population (x 1000)Live birthsDeathsNatural changeCrude birth rate (per 1000)Crude death rate (per 1000)Natural change (per 1000) 2007 17 304 233 71 18.1 13.9 4.2 2008 17 290 240 50 17.4 14.4 3.0 2009 16 305 243 62 18.5 14.7 3.8 2010 16 296 213 83 18.1 13.0 5.1
Ethnic groups The indigenous people of the region represents above 36.2% of the population. Of the 17,697 residents (as of the 2002 Census), 2 (0.01%) chose not to specify their ethnic background. Of the rest, residents identified themselves as belonging to 67 ethnic groups, including ethnic Russians (62%), Evenks (21.5%), Yakuts (5.6%), Ukrainians (3.1%), Kets (1.2%), 162 Tatars (0.9%), 152 Khakas (0.9%) and 127 Volga Germans (0.7%). Ethnicgroup 1939 Census 1959 Census 1970 Census 1979 Census 1989 Census 2002 Census2010 Census2021 Census Number % Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %Number%Number%Russians 4,675 49.4% 5,975 57.9% 7,732 61.1% 10,400 65.1% 16,718 67.5% 10,958 61.9%9,66261.5%7,37957.9Evenks 3,721 39.3% 3,474 33.7% 3,207 25.3% 3,239 20.3% 3,480 14.0% 3,802 21.5%3,58322.8%3,11824.4Yakuts 713 7.5% 51 0.5% 781 6.2% 822 5.1% 937 3.8%9915.6%9395.9%9967.8Ukrainians 117 1.2% 196 1.9% 254 2.0% 472 3.0% 1,303 5.3% 550 3.1%3412.1%1611.2Kets 14 0.1% 142 1.1% 154 1.0% 150 0.6% 211 1.2%2071.3%2531.9Others 234 2.5% 610 5.9% 542 4.3% 881 5.5% 2,181 8.8% 1,185 6.7%9155.8%8046.3
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