So, visiting various cities of the country, manyTourists are interested in: “124 region is where?” This code is the number of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Many people come here from foreign countries, and the Russians themselves are not averse to being in such a large city, where the population exceeded 1 million.
General information
Eastern and Central Siberia is famous forKrasnoyarsk region, which is one of the largest economic, industrial, cultural centers throughout Russia. The 124 region, which is the Krasnoyarsk Territory, receives a silver medal regarding the occupied area: this subject of the Russian Federation is in second place in its size.
The center of the region, that is, Krasnoyarsk, is located on the two banks of the Yenisei River, where the West Siberian Plain and the Central Siberian Plateau dock.
The city is a big knot of the whole transport movement. Here are well-developed industries such as: space industry, hydropower, nonferrous metallurgy.
The level of education in the region is also “on top”.Only in the Siberian Federal University over 40 thousand students study, and if we consider the whole region, then the number of students will exceed 150 thousand. The presence of 29 higher educational institutions, branches of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a regional innovation and technological incubator make the 124 region an important educational center of the country.
Population
Еще во времена Советского Союза предполагалось, that Krasnoyarsk will become a million-plus city. Today this statement has justified itself. More than 1.2 million people live on the territory of the Krasnoyarsk agglomeration.
According to the 2010 census, people of the following nationalities live in the Krasnoyarsk Territory:
- Russians - 92.96%;
- Ukrainians - 1.02%;
- Tatars - 1.01%.
Of course, people of other nationalities live, but their percentage ratio does not exceed 1%.
Administrative-territorial division
124 regions, in particular Krasnoyarsk, are divided into 7 districts:
- Railway.
- Kirovsky.
- October.
- Sverdlovsk.
- Leninist.
- Soviet.
- Central.
Many are interested in the question of which region 124.Not all Russians can give an answer. 124 - Krasnoyarsk region. This region borders on Tyva, Khakassia, Kemerovo and Tomsk regions, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area.
Krasnoyarsk Territory is divided into 581 municipalities:
- 484 rural settlements;
- 35 urban settlements;
- 17 urban districts;
- 44 municipal districts.
The main cities of the region include:
- Krasnoyarsk;
- Yeniseisk;
- Divnogorsk;
- Achinsk;
- Lesosibirsk;
- Ilan;
- Borodino;
- Nazarovo;
- Zheleznogorsk and others.
Industry
124 region is the most affluent areaRussia relative to minerals. That is what attracts a lot of investment here. There are over 6 thousand mineral deposits in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. All natural resources can be divided into chemical, fuel, metallurgical. It is in the 124 region that over 70% of the country's coal reserves are located. Copper-nickel ores, Iceland spar and platinum are also mined here. Krasnoyarsk Territory is one of the leaders in gold mining in Russia. Also in the city and in the surrounding areas are deposits of magnetite, molybdenum, apatite, lead, nepheline, copper, antimony, graphite, talc, titanium-magnesium ore, etc.
The following industries are well developed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory:
- transport;
- machine building and metalworking;
- production of building materials;
- building;
- power engineering;
- mining industry;
- pharmaceuticals;
- chemical industry;
- woodworking;
- food industry;
- finance;
- wholesale and retail trade;
- light industry.
Krasnoyarsk is also famous for the fact that they lived here andfamous people worked: Innokenty Smoktunovsky, Nina Nikiforova, Peter Slovtsov, Elena Akhmylovskaya and many others. Therefore, you should definitely visit the Krasnoyarsk Territory and taste the historical spirit that was inspired by such famous people.
