Краснодар - прогулка по городу (Krasnodar - a Trip Around the City)

Krasnodar is the capital of Krasnodar Territory, SE European Russia, on the Kuban River.  It is located to the east of the Black Sea. Krasnodar population is about 764,000 (2012), land area - 192 sq. km.

The city was founded in 1794 by Zaporozhe (Black Sea) Cossacks upon orders from Catherine II and it was  their administrative centre and called Ekaterinodar (Yekaterinodar). For a long time it also served as a military centre and protected Russia's Caucasian frontier. After the October Revolution, Yekaterinodar was renamed Krasnodar in 1920.   In the first half of the 19th century Yekaterinodar became a busy center of the Kuban Cossacks.



Now Krasnodar is the administrative centre of Krasnodar region and is also an important transportation and transit juncture in the Southern Russia. The federal highway M4 “Don” runs across the city.
An international airport Pashkovsky is located in the eastern part of Krasnodar city. In the southern part of the city there is a freight river port on the river Kuban. Krasnodar is also a major industrial, agricultural, and cultural center in the south of Russia.

Attractions

Take a virtual trip of Krasnodar with the following photo gallery. To watch all the photos in it in full size, click on any photo. Most of the photos are created by Krasnodar photographer Sergio Evsyukov, his other fantastic photos you can see on his exciting blog  Lost in Krasnodar.

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 A lot of people think that the most beautiful place of Krasnodar is Krasnaya Street. Many sights of Krasnodar are situated there. In the beginning of this street you can see the Central Concert Hall; at the other end  - the Avrora cinemacentre. A "Triumphal Arch" is in the middle of Krasnaya Street.     On the Theater Square you can see the largest splash fountain in Europe. The oldest part of the city is the Old Downtown Krasnodar. Many historic buildings are situated there, several of them are from the 19th century. A lot of buildings have been restored or reconstructed, and this district is a popular tourist attraction now. Major theater venues of Krasnodar are:

• The Krasnodar State Academic Drama Theater
• The Krasnodar Regional Puppet Theater
• The Krasnodar Musical Theater
• The Krasnodar Philharmonic named after Ponomarenko
• The state creative institution "Kuban Cossack Choir".

Krasnodar has several major museums:

• The Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after Kovalenko (the oldest public art museum of North Caucasus):
• Historical and archaeological museum-reserve of E. D. Felytsyn
• Kuban postal museum
• Krasnodar art exhibition hall
• Museum of military technologies
• Kuban literary museum

There are a lot of old and new monuments in Krasnodar:

• The Zaporozhye Cossacks write the letter to the Turkish sultan
• Monument in honor of Kuban Cossack army
• Alexander’s Arch of Triumph
• The monument to atamans (the founders of Kuban Territory)

There are also some humorous monuments in Kranodar which appeared recently and attract a lot of visitors. All of them are situated on Krasnaya Street:

Two doggies and words from a playful poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky about Kranodar: "It not the dog's wildness, it's Dog's capital" - "Capital Sobachkina" .

You can see this giant granitic purse near a Business Center - a really good place for it! You should sit on this funny monument to have more money.

This monument of two students reading a book is situated near Politechnical University and is dedicated to famous heroes of Gaiday comedy - Shurik and Lida.

A granitic "Monument of grief" in memory of victims of flood in Krymsk was opened on October, 4, 2012, in the Botanical garden of Kuban State Agricultural University. 165 people perished as a result of a disastrous flood on July, 6 and 7, 2012 in Krasnodar region. The opening ceremony of the monument was held within the framework of a visit of a Japanese delegation. Besides the victims of flood in Krymsk, the monument is devoted to people who perished in a terrible tsunami of March, 11, 2011, in Japan.

Climate

  Winters in Krasnodar are sometimes cold and  often damp (but this winter was unusually warm), with unstable snow cover. The average temperature in January, the region's coldest month, is only 0 °C. Weather conditions in winter vary greatly. Summers are typically hot with a July average of 24.0 °C. The city receives 718 mm of precipitation annually, fairly spread throughout the year.  Today Krasnodar is a dynamic modern city and one of the fastest growing regions in Russia. It was planned to repair 111 roads in Krasnodar in 2012 and this plan was fulfilled. Thousands of new trees and shrubs are planted in Krasnodar every year. The slogan to inspire the citizens is "Love your city - plant a tree!"  Krasnodar Krai, the third largest of Russia's region, is among the leaders in terms of retail turnover.There are a lot of shopping chains and shopping malls in Krasnodar with a wide range of shops, leisure and catering facilities where people can not only buy everything  they need but also spend their free time. The main shopping centers are:

• Gallery Krasnodar
• Krasnaya Ploshad
• Mega
• SBS
• Ozz

Krasnodar is a scientific center too. Here there are more than 20 universities. The oldest and the most authoritative are:

• Kuban (Krasnodar) State University 
•  Kuban (Krasnodar) State Medical University
•  Kuban (Krasnodar) State University of Physical Education,  Sport and Tourism
•  Kuban (Krasnodar) State Agrarian University
•  Kuban (Krasnodar) State  Technological University
•  Kuban (Krasnodar) State Culture and Art University. 

  Krasnodar construction boom  Krasnodar Krai became the leading region for housing construction in Russia. Beautiful new houses and offices can be seen in Krasnodar everywhere. The whole dictricts are being built in the suburbs of the city with modern buildings and parking places. There are plans to overhaul  all federal highways of the region, a thousand kilometers of new railway lines, to launch high-speed railway between Moscow and Adler (Sochi). It is also planned to upgrade all southern airports - in Krasnodar, Gelendzhik and Sochi, to build a new football stadium in Krasnodar.  Visit our fantastic city, explore the South of Russia!