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Krasnoyarsk krai
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Krasnoyarsk Territory is located in Central Siberia, extending from the Sayan Mts. and the Minusinsk basin in the south across the Siberian wooded steppe, taiga, and tundra to the Arctic Ocean. The territory stretches along the entire course of the Yenisey River, an important transportation route and electric power source. The distance between Moscow and Krasnoyarsk is about 4, 000km.
Krasnoyarsk Territory is the second largest Russian region after Sakha Republic (Yakutiya), occupying an area of over 2mln sq. km, which is 13% of the country's total territory. It stretches 3,000 km from north to south. The region lies in the middle of Siberia and shares borders with Tyumen, Tomsk, Irkutsk and Kemerovo Regions, the Republics of Khakassiya, Tyva, and Sakha, and the Taymyr Autonomous Area in the North.
The climate of the region is sharply continental, with great fluctuations in temperature in the course of year. As Krasnoyarsk Territory stretches in meridional direction for about 3,000km, the climate is indeed diverse. Central and southern regions of the Territory have long winter, short spring and short and hot summer. Average winter temperature is –18C, average summer temperature is +20C.
Destinations of Krasnoyarsk krai are Ergaki nature park and Stolby reserve.
How to get there
Air
Krasnoyarsk airport has flights once or more daily to /from Moscow (4,5 hours), Novosibirsk (2 hours, four times a week), Yekaterinburg (3 hours, weekly), St. Petersburg (6 hours, three times a week), Khabarovsk (4 hours, four times a week), Yakutsk (7,5 hours, weekly), Norilsk (2 hours, four times a week), Abakan (1 hour, four times a week), Irkutsk (2,3 hours, four times a week), Barnaul (1,5 hours, four times a week), Dudinka (4 hours, twice a week), and Igarka (3,5 hours, five times a week).
Train
Several eastbound and westbound trains stop here daily and Krasnoyarsk is one of the routes of the Tran-Siberian, Trans-Mongolian, and Trans-Manchurian trains. Three times a week runs the ‘Yenisey’ train to/from Moscow (Kazan Station) taking 64 hours. There are also 6 trains a day to/from Irkutsk (19hours) and 2 trains to Vladivostok. There are trains on alternate days along the Baikal-Amur Mainline to Severodvinsk, the other to Tynda and Neryungri.
Bus
The intercity bus service has regular buses to Abakan (twice daily, 9 hours), Shushenskoe (once daily, 10 hours), Sayanogorsk (once daily, 10 daily), and Yeniseysk (seven times daily, 7 hours).