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.

Urban structure

Krasnoyarsk is divided into seven administrative districts:

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• Zheleznodorozhnyy
• Kirovskiy
• Leninskiy
• Oktyabrskiy
• Sverdlovskiy
• Sovetskiy
• Tsentralnyy (Central)

Each district includes several quarters or micro-districts. Many of these quarters are relatively new while the others are former villages that were situated beyond the city line in past.

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