Krasnodar (rus)

Krasnodar

Krasnodar ranks 526th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Grand Rapids, Michigan, Valenciennes, and Norrköping. Memorable people born in Krasnodar include Anna Netrebko, Alexander Tamanian, and Andrei Shkuro. Memorable people who died in Krasnodar include Lavr Kornilov, Mikhail Alekseyev, and Pyotr Gavrilov. Krasnodar has been the birth place of many handball players, and athletes and the death place of many military personnels, and engineers. Krasnodar is located in Russia.

Krasnodar is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern Russia, with a population of 1,121,291 residents, and up to 1.226 million residents in the Urban Okrug. In the past decade Krasnodar has experienced rapid population growth, rising to become the thirteenth-largest city in Russia, and the second-largest city in southern Russia, as well as the Southern Federal District. Read more on Wikipedia