Igarka

Igarka is a town in Turukhansky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located 163 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle. Igarka is a monotown established around a sawmill which processed timber logged in the basin of the Yenisei River for export. Up to 1956, it was largely inhabited by deportees and political prisoners. Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, the town's population has rapidly declined – it decreased from 18,820 to 4,417.