Bolshaya Tes

Bolshaya Tes Большая Тесь
Location of Bolshaya Tes
Bolshaya Tes
Coordinates: 54°48′N 90°59′E
Country	Russia
Elevation	285 m (935 ft)

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 [ru], 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

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

Notable people

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

References

1. "Административная карта Красноярского края (южная часть) 1957 г." etomesto.com (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-11-10.
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.^{[ISBN missing]}