Information about the city of Astrakhan
Status: a city of regional subordination, the administrative center of
the Astrakhan Region.
Phone code: +7 851*******, +7 8512******
Astrakhan is situated on the Caspian Plain, on the Volga River,
in the upper part of its estuary, 1534 km. south-east from Moscow.
Industry.
Fuel and energy complex takes the leading position, presented by "Gasprom Production Astrakhan" ltd.
The largest plants are "Shipbuilding and Shipreapairing Plant n.a. the III International" JSC,
shipbuilding plant "Red Barricades" OJSC, shipbuilding and shiprepairing plant "Lenina" CJSC,
JSV OJSC "Astrakhansky Korabel", "Astrakhan Shipyard" JSC.
Enterprises of chemical industry are presented by "Astrakhan Fiberglass" JSC and "Astrakhan General Mechanical Rubber Goods Plant" JSC.
Electric power producers: "Astrakhanenergo" OJSC, heat power station "Severnaya" OJSC.
Astrakhan locomotive rebuilder (Astrakhan TRZ).
"Astrakhanbumprom" OJSC
"Astrakhankonservprom" OJSC. "Kaspriba" OJSC
Agriculture: plant growing (paddy culture, vegetables, cucurbits crops), sheep breeding for meat and wool, beef and meat cattle breeding and camel husbandry.
Culture.
Caspian Research and Development Institute of Fishery and Oceanography, etc.
Theatres: State Musical Theatre, Puppet Theatre, Theatre of Young Spectator, Legitimate Drama Theatre. Philharmonic.
United Historical and Architectural Open-Air Museum (collection of historical monuments of Khazar, Golden Horde and exploration of the lower Volga by the Russians).
Picture gallery n.a. B.M. Kustodiev (founded in 1918, Russian art).
Astrakhan Kremlin (1580 - 1620), house museum of V. Khlebnikov, museum of city culture (former house museum of N.G. Chernyshevsky), cultural and entertaining complex "Oktyabr"
with unique winter garden-tree nursery.
The backyards of the easter merchants in the center of the former white city, mosques, Roman Catholic Church (1762-78) have been preserved.
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