Krasnoyarsk Photo Gallery. The Trans-Siberian Train Trip

Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is 65 hours from Moscow and 20 hours from Irkutsk.

Krasnoyarsk is a major industrial centre, producing one quarter of Russia’s aluminium, almost a quarter of its refrigerators and millions of truck and car tyres a year. The city centre is quite attractive and with hills on the outskirts. Krasnoyarsk is certainly more pleasantly located than some other large Siberian cities. More info.

A square in downtown Krasnoyarsk		They look like planes from World War I.
View from our room of the hotel. Our hotel, the Turist hotel, even appears in the notes of 10 roubles!		Another view from the room, quite better than the previous one. The ships are not luxurious yatches but...
Bridge over the Yenisei river		Our ship was pretty cool. It would take us to a very famous dam in Krasnoyarsk.
No comments.		The dam was built in the 60s, and still, it was dedicated to Lenin... This is real cult to a person...
Tthe famous dam. It has several special things. One is its size: a kilometer wide and 120 meters tall. Moreover, it is made with so many million of billion of trillion kilograms of concrete that it doesn’t have to have the curved shape to make easier supporting the pressure of the water, it is completely straight.	So they designed some kind of box that goes into the water, takes the ships, goes around the dam and leaves the ships again on the water. We were told this is the only dam in the world with such a mechanism.	This was the most curious thing of the dam. They realized that if they used the typical system with floodgates so the ships could traverse the dam, the water would reach Krasnoyarsk (about 30 kilometers from here) and would partially flood the city.
The guy that took us to the dam. He had a gun under his seat, but he was a nice guy...		The clock known as the Big Ben of Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is known as “The city of the thousand fountains”, and it is almost true		Railway station of Krasnoyarsk... New adventures were waiting for us further to the East...

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