Information about the city of Krasnoyarsk
Status: a city of regional subordination, the administrative center of the Krasnoyarsk
Region.
It is situated on the banks of the Yenisey River, 3955 km east of
Moscow.
Phone code: +7 (3912) ******
Economy.
Krasnoyarsk is a developed industrial center.
Leading industries and enterprises:
- Machinebuilding and metalworking (plants: machinebuilding, timber machinebuilding,
refrigerators Biryusa, harvesting machines, Sibtyazhmash (heavy machinebuilding),
Krasnoyarsk shipyard)
- Transport (Yenisei river shipping company, airline "KrasAir", Krasnoyarsk railway, Sibaviatrans)
- Chemical industry (plant of synthetic rubber, Chemical Plant "Yenisei", Krasfarma, Krasnoyarsk tyre plant)
- Metallurgy (KrAZ (RUSAL), KrAMZ, plant of non-ferrous metals n.a. Gulidov, Metallurgical Plant "Sibelectrostal")
- Building (Bamtonnelstroy)
- Production of building materials ("Krasnoyarsky Cement", "Kombinat "Volna" JSC, "Kraspan" JSC)
- Woodworking ("Yenisei TsBK (paper and pulp integrated plant)" JSC, "Yeniseiles")
- Power generation ("Krasnoyarsk Transmission Networks" OJSC,
"Krasnoyarsk Energy Sale Company" OJSC, "Yenisei Territorial Generating Company (TGK-13)" OJSC)
- Mining industry (SUEK-Krasnoyarsk)
- Food industry ("Milko", "Siberian Guberniya (province)", "Baltika-Pikra",
"Kraskon")
- Light industry ("Ionessi" CJSC)
Agriculture: production of grain, potatoes and vegetables, dairy and meat cattle husbandry,
sheep breeding, poultry farming, bee keeping and fur-farming.
Culture.
Scientific Center of Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Science
unites Institutes of Physics, Chemistry and Chemical Technologies, Forest and
Wood, Computer Center and other scientific establishments.
Siberian and Far East Department of the Russian Academy of Arts is working in Krasnoyarsk.
Theatres: Opera and Ballet Theatre, Legitimate Drama Theatre n.a. A.S.
Pushkin, Theatre of Musical Comedy, Young Spectator Theatre, Puppet Theatre, Children's
Mime-Theatre "Za Dvumya Zaitsami (run after two hares)".
Big and small concert halls, concert and dancing hall, hall of organic music,
Philarmonic. Circus. 2 exhibition halls.
Museums: Local Lore Museum with several branches; Cultural and Historical
Center; Victory Memorial, Historical Museum; House Museum n.a. V.I. Lenin;
Museum-Flat of P.A. Krasikov; Museum-Estate of V.I. Surikov; Fine Art Museum n.a.
Surikov; Fine Art Gallery "Modern Art of the Krasnoyarsk Region"; Central Siberia
Geology Museum; Ship-Museum "St. Nicholay"; Literary Museum; Museum of Shipping
History and Development; Museum of the Artist Boris Ryauzov.
Sights: Krasnoyarsk "Stolby (poles)" are the visit card of the city;
the St. Paraskeba Chapel; the Intercession and the Annunciation Cathedrals; the former
mansions of the merchant Gadalovy, merchant bibliophile Yudin; Railway bridge across
the Yenisei River. Park of flora and fauna "Royev Ruchey", Central Park.
In 1936, the first in Russia children's railway was opened in Krasnoyarsk.
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