Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk (Russian: ???????????), administrative center of the Krasnoyarsk Krai, is the third largest city in Siberia. It lies on the Yenisei River and is an important station on the Trans-Siberian railway.

Education

Next to Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk is a very prominent scientific and eductational center of Siberia with more than 30 higher education facilities, many of which are the branches of the Russian Academy of Science, and about 200 high schools. The most notable higher education institutes are:

Related Topics:
Novosibirsk - Siberia - Higher education - Russian Academy of Science - High school

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• Krasnoyarsk State University (Russian abbreviation is KGU), founded in 1963 as a division of Novosibirsk State University, became standalone university in 1969
• Krasnoyarsk State Technical University (Russian abbreviation is KGTU) founded in 1956
• Siberian State Technological University (Russian abbreviation is SibGTU), the oldest in the city, founded in 1930 as the Siberian Institute of Forest
• Sukachev Institute of Forest, founded in 1944

Similarly to Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk has the special city district called Akademgorodok (Academic Town in Russian) where many of the institues are located. There, in the Institute of Biophysics, the experiment on ecological isolation of human beings called "Bios", similar to the US experiment Biosphere 2, has been sucessfully held in 1973-1985.

Related Topics:
Novosibirsk - Akademgorodok - Russian - Institute of Biophysics - Ecological - Human - Bios - Biosphere 2

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