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'''Krasnoyarsk''' ({{lang-ru|Красноя́рск}}) is the administrative center of Krasnoyarsk_Krai, Russia, and the third largest city in Siberia, having a population of 909,341 as of the 2002 Census. It lies on the Yenisei_River and is an important station on the Trans-Siberian_railway.
==Geography==
Image:Yenisei_basin_7.png
Krasnoyarsk is located at {{coor dm|56|01|N|93|04|E|region:RU_type:city(909,341)}}. The total area of the city including suburbs and the river is 172 square Kilometres. January's average temperature is −20°C, July—+18°C. The minimum temperature ever recorded was —56°C, and the maximum was—+36°C.
The city straddles the Yenisei_River, which flows from West to East through town. Due to the hydroelectric power station 32 km upstream, the Yenisei never freezes in winter and never exceeds 14°C in summer through the city. Its water level near the city center is 136 meters from Sea_level. There are several islands in the river, the largest of which are Tatyshev and Otdyha Isles, which are used mainly for recreation.
To the south and west, Krasnoyarsk is surrounded by forested hills averaging 410 m in height above river level. Further south are the gigantic rock cliffs of the Stolby Nature Reserve rising from the surrounding hills. The western hills form the Gremyachinskaya_Griva_crest, starting from the Nikolayevskaya_Sopka_hill (notable for its Ski_jumping tracks) and extending westwards up to the Sobakina_River. The terrain north of town is rather plain, with forests to the northwest and agricultural fields to the north and east.
===Geological Features===
The most prominent hills in the Krasnoyarsk area are:
*Nikolayevskaya Sopka
*Karaulnaya Gora
*Chornaya Sopka
*DrokinskayaImage:Krasnoyarsk_Ostrich.jpges in the Krasnoyarsk zoo]]
The major rivers located in the Krasnoyarsk area are:
*Mana
*Bazaikha
*Kacha
*Yesaulovka
*Beryozovka
*Karaulnaya
*Slizneva_River
*Listvennaya_River
*Zarechnaya Listvyanka
*Minzhul
*Sobakina (Pionerskaya)
*Krutenkaya
*Laletina
Due to the specifics of the relief there are few natural lakes exist in the Krasnoyarsk neighborhood.
Image:Krasnoyarsk_train.jpg
The nearby towns are (with distances from Krasnoyarsk and directions):
*Sosnovoborsk (30 kmNE)
*Divnogorsk (34 kmW)
*Zheleznogorsk (46 kmNE)
*Uyar (88 kmE)
*Zelenogorsk (103 kmE)
*Zaozyorny (109 kmE)
*Borodino (122 kmE)
*Achinsk (153 kmW)
*Nazarovo (158 kmW)
*Kansk (173 kmE)
*Artyomovsk (186 kmS)
*Ilansky (195 kmE)
*Uzhur (209 kmW)
*Bogotol (213 kmW)
==Urban structure==
Krasnoyarsk is divided into seven administrative districts:
*Kirovsky
*Leninsky
*Oktyabrsky
*Sovetsky
*Sverdlovsky
*Tsentralny
*Zheleznodorozhny
==Demographics==
The population count dynamic by years:
{| width="80%" border="1" class="prettytable"
| width="12%" | '''1897'''
| width="13%" | 26,600
| '''1962'''
| 465,000
| '''1982'''
| 833,000
| '''2000'''
| 875,500
|-
| '''1923'''
| 60,400
| '''1967'''
| 576,000
| '''1986'''
| 885,000
| '''2001'''
| 875,900
|-
| '''1926'''
| 72,200
| '''1970'''
| 648,000
| '''1989'''
| 912,600
| '''2002'''
| 909,341
|-
| '''1939'''
| 190,000
| '''1973'''
| 707,000
| width="12%" | '''1992'''
| width="13%" | 925,000
| '''2005'''
| 917,200
|-
| '''1956'''
| 328,000
| width="12%" | '''1976'''
| width="13%" | 758,000
| '''1996'''
| 871,100
|
|
|-
| width="12%" | '''1959'''
| width="13%" | 412,000
| '''1979'''
| 796,300
| '''1998'''
| 875,300
|
|
|}
Image:Krasnoyarsk_population.png Image:Krasnoyarsk_view.JPG
Population count by districts (2002 census):
*Kirovsky: 117,156
*Leninsky: 146,943
*Oktyabrsky: 138,521
*Sovetsky: 231,696
*Sverdlovsky: 130,518
*Tsentralny: 54,503
*Zheleznodorozhny: 90,004
The population of Krasnoyarsk includes a number of peoples, the most numerous are Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Germans and Belarusians. Of the late years the number of Tajiks, Uzbeks and other Central_Asian and Caucasian peoples has extensively grown because of the vast, often illegal Immigration in search for work.
Another multitudinous Immigrants are Chinese who, in opposite to other Foreign_workers, are employed in much more lucrative areas and often doing co-operative business with local companies. Many [Chinese are busy in trading at Bazaars, there even exists a special large Chinese Bazaar named ''Sodruzhestvo'' (Russian for ''fellowship'') and the ''Chinese Trading Town'' (Russian: Китайский торговый город) or colloquially ''Kitai-gorod'' situated at Strelka.
==History==
The city was founded in July of 1628 as a Russian border fort. The group of Service_class_people led by the CossackAndrey_Dubenskoy arrived to the confluence of the Kacha_River with the Yenisei_River and constructed fortifications intended to protect the frontier from attacks of native peoples who lived along Yenisei and its tributaries. In the letter to Tsar the Cossacks reported:
:''...The town of trunks (log buildings) we have constructed and around the place of fort, we the servants of ye lord, have embedded posts and fastened them with double bindings and the place of fort have strengthened mightily...''
The fort have been named "Krasny Yar" ({{lang|ru|Кра́сный Яр}}) after the local Turkic name of the place it was built by: "Kyzyl Dzhar", meaning "Red Cliff" or "Krasny Yar" in old Russian. The name "Krasnoyarsk" was given later when the village of Krasnyy Yar has received the town status.
Image:Krasnoyarsk_Marx_x.jpg
The intensive growth of Krasnoyarsk began with the arrival of the Moscow_Postroad (the road ''M53'' nowadays) in 1735 to 1741 which connected the nearby towns of Achinsk and Kansk with Krasnoyarsk and with the rest of Russia. The growth was later spurred on by the discovery of gold and by the arrival of the railroad in 1895.
In the 19th century Krasnoyarsk was the center of the Siberian Cossack movement. In 1822 it had gained the status of town and had become the capital of the Yenisei_Guberniya. In the end of the 19th century Krasnoyarsk had several manufacturing facilities, railroad workshops and an engine-house.
Image:Krasnoyarsk_Veinbauma_4_city_admin.jpg
In Imperial_Russia Krasnoyarsk was the one of the places to which political exiles were banished. For example, eight Decembrists were deported from St._Petersburg to Krasnoyarsk after the failure of the revolt.
After the Russian_Revolution_of_1917 during the periods of centralized planning (Pyatiletkas) numerous large plants and factories were constructed in Krasnoyarsk: Sibtyazhmash, the dock yard, the paper factory, the hydroelectric power station (now the fifth largest in the World and the second in Russia), the river port.
Image:Krasnoyarsk_Marx_132.jpgImage:Old_style_construction_in_Krasnoyarsk.jpg
In 1934 the second largest Russian region, Krasnoyarsk_Krai, was formed. Krasnoyarsk was established as the administrative center.
During the epoch of Stalinism, Krasnoyarsk was a major center of the Gulag system. The most important labor camp was the Kraslag or ''Krasnoyarskiy ITL'' (1938-ca.1960) with the two units located in Kansk and Reshyoty. In Krasnoyarsk itself the Yeniseylag or ''Yeniseiskiy ITL'' labor camp existed during World_War_II (~ 1940-41).
During World War II dozens of factories were evacuated from Ukraine and western Russia to Krasnoyarsk and nearby towns, stimulating the industrial growth of the city. After the war additional large plants were constructed: the aluminum plant, the metallurgic plant, the plant of base metals and many others.
In the late 1970s, the Soviet_Union began constructing a phased array radar station at Abalakova, near Krasnoyarsk, which allegedly violated the ABM_Treaty. Beginning in 1983, the United_States demanded its removal, until the Soviet Union admitted the radar station was a violation in 1989. Equipment was slowly removed from the site and by 1992 it was officially declared to be dismantled. The equipment from the site was likely relocated to a new site near Komsomolsk-na-Amure.http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/russia/yeniseysk.htm
After the Collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union and beginning of the Privatization many large plants and factories, such as the Krasnoyarsk_Aluminum_Plant, became owned by allegedly criminal authorities and Oligarchs while others were declared bankrupt. The economic transition resulted in a dramatic raise in Unemployment and numerous strikes.
The best known financial scandal of the second half of 1990's had happened when ownership of the Krasnoyarsk_Aluminum_Plant by a known Krasnoyarsk businessman Anatoliy_Bykov had been cancelled after accusation him of the murder of this partner Vilor_Struganov. The murder eventually turned out to be fictional.
The Krasnoyarsk plants ownership problems continue through the early 21st century since nearly all of them are owned either by monopolistic financial groups or by Oligarchs and Russian commercial practices continue to evolve.
Since the election of Pyotr_Pimashkov as the mayor of Krasnoyarsk in 1996 the look of the city began to slowly improve: old historical buildings were restored, asphalt walkways have been replaced with paving-stone, and numerous squares with fountains have been constructed. Now the major part of the city bears only a few traces of its pragmatic Soviet look.
===Coat of arms===
Image:Coat_of_Arms_of_Krasnoyarsk_(Krasnoyarsk_krai)_(1804).pngImage:Coat_of_Arms_of_Krasnoyarsk_(Krasnoyarsk_krai)_(1851).png
The first version of the Krasnoyarsk coat of arms was approved on March_12, 1804. The coat of arms was divided horizontally into two parts, the upper part contained the coat of arms of the Tomsk_Guberniya, the lower part had the picture of the Krasny_Yar_cliff on the silver background.
A riveised coat of arms, approved on November_23, 1851, had the golden figure of a lion placed on the red heraldic shield with a spade in the right fore paw and a sickle in the left fore paw, both made of the same metal. The shield was topped with the golden crown of the Russian_Empire.
The current coat of arms (see above) approved on November_28, 2004 contains the same red shield with the slightly changed figure of the lion topped with the golden five-tower status crown of a federal subject center.
In 2005, the 16 meters tall pillar with the bronze statue of the Krasnoyarsk heraldic lion upon its top was erected at the Krasnoyarsk_Railway_Station square.
==Architecture==
Image:Krasnoyarsk_Mira_71.jpg
There is a number of historical buildings in Krasnoyarsk, the oldest of them is the Intercession Cathedral ({{lang|ru|Покровский собор}}, 1785 to 1795, restored in 1977 to 1978). Other locally significant samples of Russian Orthodox architecture are the Annunciation Cathedral ({{lang|ru|Благовещенский собор}}, 1802-12), the St. Trinity Cathedral ({{lang|ru|Свято-Троицкий собор}}, 1802-12), John the Baptist Church ({{lang|ru|Церковь Иоанна Предтечи}}, 1899, former episcopal residence), and the new Michael the Archangel Church ({{lang|ru|Церковь Архистратига Михаила}}, 1998 to 2003).
On the top of the Karaulnaya hill, originally a pagan shrine, later occupied by the Krasnoyarsk fort watchtower, the St. Paraskeba Chapel ({{lang|ru|Часовня Параскевы Пятницы}}, 1804, rebuilt in 1854 to 1855) still stands. The chapel, displayed on the 10-ruble note, is one of iconic images of the city. The chapel was abandoned and fell into disrepair during the Soviet era and only when the Perestroyka came it had been regained by the Yenisei Bishopric.
Image:Krasnoyarsk_Mira_10_dolgostroi.jpg]]
Another unofficial symbol of Krasnoyarsk is the incomplete 24 storey tower located at Strelka. Construction of the tower had been started just before Perestroyka and then frozen due to the administrative crisis. The outline of the tower is clearly seen from many places in the city. Image:Krasnoyarsk_railway_bridge_2003.jpg across the Yenisei (1893-96).]]
A bridge near Krasnoyarsk carries the Trans-Siberian_Railway across the Yenisei. This structure, one of the longest at the time, was constructed between 1893 and 1896 to an award-winning design by Lavr_Proskuryakov. When approved for the inscription on the World_Heritage_List in 2003, the bridge was described by the UNESCO as "an early representation of a typical parabolic polygonal Truss_bridge in Russia" which became "a testing ground for the application of engineering theories and the development of new innovative solutions, which had numerous successors" (http://whc.unesco.org/p_dynamic/document/document_download.cfm?id_document=1441).
Among other notable buildings are the mansions of the merchant Nikolay_Gadalov (beginning of the 20th century), the Roman-Catholic Transfiguration Chapel ({{lang|ru|Преображенский собор}}, 1911, also known as the Krasnoyarsk Organ Hall), the Krasnoyarsk_Krai_Museum stylized as an Ancient_Egyptian temple, the Krasnoyarsk_Cultural/Historical_Center and the triumphal arch at the Spit (2003), the regional administration building flanked with two towers known as the "Donkey Ears".
There is a number of 2-storey wooden houses in the city built mostly in the middle of the 20th century as temporary habitations. Many urbanized villages located inside the city keep the remnants of the traditional Russian village architecture: wooden houses with backyards, many somewhat dilapidated now but still inhabited.
==Culture==
Image:Krasnoyarsk_kray_philarmonic_society,_the_organ_hall.jpg
Krasnoyarsk is the hometown of many famous people, some of whom are well-known throughout the world. The most prominent culture figures are the world-famous historic painter Vasily_Surikov, the classic writer Viktor_Astafiev, the world-class opera singers Pyotr_Slovtsov, musician Alexander_Porochine and Dmitri_Hvorostovsky. The other honourable artists are the painters Andrey_Pozdeev, Valeriy_Kudrinskiy and Toivo_Rännel, sculptors Boris_Musat and Yuriy_Zlotya, writers Roman_Solntsev and Nikolay_Gayduk.
There is a number of local holidays celebrated annually in Krasnoyarsk. The most significant holiday is the ''Day of the City'' celebrated in June, usually with the Carnival. Other holidays and cultural events are: the ''Mana Festival'' ({{lang|ru|Манский фестиваль}}) usually held on last weekend of June with the traditional bard contest, the International_Museum_Biennale traditionally held in the Krasnoyarsk_Cultural/Historical_Center, the Avant-garde ''Museum Night'' festival dedicated to the International_Museum_Day (May_18), the ''Jazz on Yenisey'' festival, the ''Stolbist Day'' held many times a year celebrating the traditions of Mountain_climbing in the Stolby national reserve, the ''Bikers' Rally''.
Krasnoyarsk has a number of local Television companies and the highly-developed Telecommunications, many districts of the city have LAN-based broadband Internet access.
==Education==
Next to Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk is a very prominent scientific and educational center of Siberia with more than 30 Higher_education facilities, many of which are the branches of the Russian_Academy_of_Science, and about 200 High_schools. The most notable Higher_education institutes are:
*Krasnoyarsk_State_University (Russian abbreviation is ''KGU''), founded in 1963 as a division of Novosibirsk_State_University, became standalone University in 1969
*Krasnoyarsk_State_Technical_University (Russian abbreviation is ''KGTU''), founded in 1956
*Krasnoyarsk_State_Pedagogical_University (Russian abbreviation is ''KGPU''), founded in 1932
*Siberian_State_Technological_University (Russian abbreviation is ''SibGTU''), the oldest in the city, founded in 1930 as the Siberian Institute of Forest
*Siberian_State_Aerospace_University (Russian abbreviation is ''SibGAU''), founded in 1960
*Krasnoyarsk_State_Medical_Academy (Russian abbreviation is ''KrasGMA''), founded in 1942
*Sukachev_Institute_of_Forest, founded in 1944
Similarly to Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk has the special city district called Akademgorodok (''Academic Town'' in Russian) where many of the institutes are located. There, in the Institute_of_Biophysics, the experiment on ecological isolation of Human beings called "Bios", similar to the US experiment Biosphere_2, has been successfully held in 1973-1985.
==Metro==
Image:Krasnoyarsk_Metro_English.png
An underground network (three lines) has been planned in Krasnoyarsk for decades. The first three stations have not been opened yet, but several construction sites around the city are visible. There is no fixed date when the first trains start to run.
==Tourism==
Image:Krasnoyarsk_Dubrovinskogo_84_Museum.jpg Regional Studies Museum]]
The most popular place of attraction for tourists visiting Krasnoyarsk is the huge national nature reserve Stolby (''Pillars'' in Russian) or the ''Rock Pillars''. Stolby covers an area of 470 km² (181 mile²) with numerous giant Granite rocks formations up to 100 meters high, many of very extraordinary shapes. Stolby is also a major Rock_climbing location, many local climbers intentionally do not use any Belaying equipment and call their extreme sport "Stolbizm", which is known around the world as solo climbing.
Other popular showplaces include the Krasnoyarsk_Hydroelectric_Power_Station dam, the Karaulnaya_Gora_hill with the Paraskeva_Pyatnitsa_Chapel, museums, theaters, etc.
==External links==
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*Krasnoyarsk Visiting Guide
*Siberian Tour Guide
*Krasnoyarsk today's news
*The gallery of Krasnoyarsk artists
*The Krasnoyarsk State University homepage
*The Krasnoyarsk State Technical University homepage
*{{ru icon}} Interactive online map of Krasnoyarsk
*{{ru icon}} Monthly-updated downloadable software map of Krasnoyarsk
{{Cities and towns in Krasnoyarsk Krai}}
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