Information about the city of Krasnodar
Status: a city of regional subordination, the administrative center of the Krasnodar Region.
It is situated on the Kuban-Priazovskaya (Prikubanskaya) lowland, on the right
bank of the Kuban River (port), 1539 km south-east of Moscow.
Phone code: +7 (861) *******
Economy.
Krasnodar city is the largest industrial center in the south of Russia.
Main industries and enterprises:
- Machinebuilding ("Krasnodarselmash" (agricultural machines),
"Krasnodarrismash" (rice harvesting machines), "Sedin-Shiss" (machinetool
building), compressor, electromeasuring devices, radio measuring devices,
"Tenzopribor", gas facilities, medical instruments, "Krasny Metallist"
(red metalworker), plant for assembly of German harvesting machines CLAAS)
- Oil processing and chemical industry (Industrial Association "Krasnodarnefteorgsintez" (oil organic synthesis), chemical integrated plant, plants: plastic, general meachanical rubber goods, chemical)
- Light industry ("Yugtext" JSC, worsted-woolen and cotton fabric integrated plants, tannery, jersey and garment factories)
- Porcelain-faience (Porcelain-faience plant)
- Production of building materials
- Flavouring (oil and fat, meat processing, dairy, tobacco integrated plants etc.)
- Woodworking industry (furniture-woodworking integrated plants etc.)
- Power generation - Krasnodar Heat Power Plant
Agriculture: meat and dairy cattle husbandry, pig breeding, poultry farming,
bee keeping, plant growing.
Culture.
Theatres: drama, puppet, musical theatre, youth's theatre.
Philarmonic. Circus.
Museum: Fine Art Museum n.a. F.A. Kovalenko, Historical and Archeologic
Museum-Resort n.a. E.D. Felitsyn, Branch of the Russian Culture Fund,
Railway History Museum, Post Museum in Kuban, Museum of Military
Machines of the park n.a. 30 years of Victory, Literary Museum of Kuban,
House-Museum of V. Vysotsky, museum of body-building "Samson",
exhibition hall.
Sights: One of the first in the world hyperboloidal structures -
steel open-work net tower, built on the project of V.G. Shukhov.
The works are conducted over again on building of the Triumphal arch. It is also planning
to open new monument "Zaporozhye Cossacks are Writing a Letter to Sultan"
in the style of urban sculpture.
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