Kodinsk is a town and the administrative center of Kezhemsky District

Kezhemsky District

Kezhemsky District is an administrative and municipal district , one of the forty-three in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is located in the eastern portion of the krai and borders with Evenkiysky District in the north, Irkutsk Oblast in the east and south, and Boguchansky District in the west. The...

 of Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia . It is the second largest federal subject after the Sakha Republic, and Russia's largest krai, occupying an area of , which is 13% of the country's total territory. The administrative center of the krai is the city of Krasnoyarsk...

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the Angara River

Angara River

The Angara River is a long river in Irkutsk Oblast and Krasnoyarsk Krai, south-east Siberia, Russia. It is the only river flowing out of Lake Baikal, and is the headwater tributary of the Yenisei River....

, 735 kilometres (456.7 mi) north of Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is a city and the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, located on the Yenisei River. It is the third largest city in Siberia, with the population of 973,891. Krasnoyarsk is an important junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and one of Russia's largest producers of...

. Population:

It was founded in 1977 as the settlement of Kodinskoye servicing the construction of the Boguchanskaya hydroelectric power station; the name is from the river Koda (itself from Evenki kada 'cliff'). It was granted urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement ; , selyshche mis'koho typu ) is an official designation for a type of locality used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union...

status in 1978 and town status in 1989.