About krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk - the capital of Krasnoyarsk Territory, the second largest of the Russian Federation with an area of ​​2 366.8 thousand sq. M. km. On the territory of the region in the vicinity of Lake Vivi is the geographical center of Russia.
The city is located in the center of Russia, on both banks of the Yenisei River at the junction of the West Siberian Plain and the Central Siberian Plateau Sayan Mountains; in the basin formed by the northernmost spurs of the East Sayan

The flag is a symbol of the city of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai of the Russian Federation.

city flag is a rectangular cloth of four equally large rectangular fields of red and blue colors, separated by a horizontal and vertical stripes of gold color. Blue fields are located at the top right and bottom left, red field, respectively, on the top left and bottom right. The ratio of the flag's width to its length - 1.5: 2.5 units, the width of the separation bands of gold color - 0.05 units.

In the center of the flag is the coat of arms of the city ratio of 0.75: 0.95 units, whose image does not contain five-turret crowns.

Coat of arms of Krasnoyarsk

Coat of arms of the city is a picture of the golden rampant lion placed on a dark red heraldic shield, holding in front paws a shovel and sickle of the same metal, on the right leg - shovel, on the left - the hammer. Heraldic Shield five-turret crowned with a golden crown status of the Russian Federation Centre.

The most interesting data about Krasnoyarsk

The most popular surname in Krasnoyarsk

Ivanov, Smirnov, Kuznetsov, Vasilyev, Popov - the most common surnames in Krasnoyarsk. Several years ago, a kind of "Guinness Book" Krasnoyarsk names was a local historian Sergei Month. He called and the most common names of various nationalities: Ukrainian origin - Kovalenko; foreign origin - Miller; Jewish origin - Gurevich; Cossack origin - Cherkashin.

The most prevalent indigenous Siberian surname surname was Potylitsin.

Tallest buildings in Krasnoyarsk

1. Pipe Krasnoyarsk CHP-3 - 275 meters.

2. Business Center "First Tower" - 30 floors - 120 metrov.Odno of the tallest buildings outside of Moscow.

3. KATEKNIIugol tower - 29 floors - 105 meters.

The longest street in Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk Many believe that the longest pipe of the regional center - the name of Avenue of the newspaper "Krasnoyarsk worker". In fact it is a street semaphore. It stretches from the plowed fields to a tire factory. Officially, the length of the street - more than 14 kilometers. Although popularly referred to as "Krasrab" conceded first place to his lesser-known neighbor, but the prospect remains a favorite in the other rating - the longest street name.

Krasnoyarsk in the Guinness Book of Records

Get into the Guinness Book of Records the dream of many Krasnoyarsk. And sometimes they get their way. Records in the city pose sometimes unexpected. But the main thing - the result!

- In 2000, Boris Smirnov was awarded the title of the winner of the Guinness Book of Records. His record - handed over 68 liters of blood. He was 30 years old donor. If we consider that the body of an adult weighing 70 kilograms contains an average of 5 liters of blood, it turns out that Boris Yeltsin handed over so much blood, how much is available for thirteen people.

- In 2003, the Guinness Book of Krasnoyarsk were harvesters, which was committed mileage Krasnoyarsk - Eagle (5300 km) in 44 days.

- In 2006, set a record for simultaneous chess game. More than two thousand people staged the biggest on the board game tournament.

- In 2007, to mark the occasion in the Book of Records was stew. The record was the fact that within 25 minutes of Krasnoyarsk university students team had to build a pyramid of 22 thousand cans of stew. The team included 50 people - 10 girls and 40 boys. To speed the construction of the pyramid the boys were divided into podnosyaschih, feed and builders. Each participant is clearly fulfilled its function. As a result, the pyramid was built before the set time - 20 minutes 20 seconds.

- In 2014, it recorded a record - in Krasnoyarsk hosted the biggest board game in the world "Carcassonne". For her, needed multimeter table the size of a volleyball court.

- Most recently, on June 7 at the circuit Kuznetsova built Toyota logo of the 1416 cars, with the result that hit the Guinness Book of Records.

Museums

Surikov Museum

As the volume of the museum fund Krasnoyarsk region today is among the ten regions of the Russian Federation and ranks first in the Siberian Federal District. At the edge of the museum fund of more than 1.3 million items - it is the largest museum collection in the Urals. Most of it is stored or exhibited in Krasnoyarsk.