Yeniseysk
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Image:Ru200007300019.JPG Yeniseysk , also Eniseisk and other variants (Russian: Енисе́йск) is a town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River at 58.45 N, 92.17 E. Population: 20,394 (2002 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.
| Image:KrsasnojarskKrayCoatOfArms.jpg | Cities and towns in Krasnoyarsk Krai | Image:Flag of Russia.svg |
| Administrative center: Krasnoyarsk Achinsk | Artyomovsk | Bogotol | Borodino | Divnogorsk | Ilansky | Kodinsk | Kansk | Lesosibirsk | Minusinsk | Nazarovo | Norilsk | Sharypovo | Sosnovoborsk | Uyar | Uzhur | Yeniseysk | Zaozyorny | Zelenogorsk | Zheleznogorsk |
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