Bolshaya Tes
Большая Тесь
Abandoned village
Bolshaya Tes is located in Krasnoyarsk Krai
Bolshaya Tes
Bolshaya Tes
Coordinates: 54°48′N 90°59′E / 54.800°N 90.983°E / 54.800; 90.983
CountryRussia
Federal subjectKrasnoyarsk Krai
DistrictNovosyolovsky District

Bolshaya Tes (Russian: Большая Тесь) was a rural locality (a (village) in the Novosyolovsky District of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.

Geography

Bolshaya Tes was named after the Bolshaya Tes River, currently known as Tes, which flowed into the Yenisey near the village.[1] On the maps of the 19th-early 20th centuries, it was called Tesinskaya.[2][3][4]

History

There was a village in the Novoselovskaya volost[2] of the Minusinsky Uyezd in Yeniseysk Governorate. Bolshaya Tes was flooded during the filling of the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir in 1972.

Notable people

Bolshaya Tes was the birthplace of politician Konstantin Chernenko.[5]

Konstantin Chernenko

Chernenko

Konstantin Chernenko (1911–1985) was a very influential member of the USSR’s Politburo who eventually succeeded Yuri Andropov as General Secretary of the Soviet Union ahead of his preferred successor, Mikhail Gorbachev. However, during his short reign for one year, he was in failing health and often mumbled his speech and had to use a special escalator in the Kremlin. During his tenure as leader, he boycotted the 1984 Summer Olympics, with the USSR citing “chauvinistic sentiments and an anti-Soviet hysteria being whipped up in the United States”. The Soviet Union was joined in this by many communist countries and set up the “Friendship Games” for these countries. Chernenko’s reasoning for boycotting the Olympics is commonly thought to be in revenge for the USA doing the same thing the time before.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Административная карта Красноярского края (южная часть) 1957 г." etomesto.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  2. 1 2 "Карта заселяемой части Енисейской губернии 1905 года". etomesto.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  3. ↑ "Карта губерний и областей Российской Империи вдоль Сибирской железной дороги 1893 г." etomesto.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  4. ↑ "Карта южной части Енисейской губернии 1855 года". etomesto.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-11-10.
  5. ↑ Jessup, John E. (1998). An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 121. Archived from the original on 10 October 2017. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  6. ↑ alphahistory (2016-05-01). "Konstantin Chernenko". The Cold War. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
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