This eastern Russian city is located on the Yenisey River along the Trans-Siberian Railway. It was founded in 1628 as the fort Krasny Yar 'beautiful clearing' and grew in the 1960's when the world's largest hydroelectric dam was built there on the Yenisey.
Krasnoyarsk is an administrative center in the East Siberian region of Russia with the population of more than 3 million people.
The city is one of the earliest settlements of Siberia. It was founded as a fort in 1628 by Cossack Andrey Dubenskiy. It was a wooden fortress with a wall with five towers. For 100 years Krasnoyarsk played the role of frontier advanced post. During its existence it was never conquered. When Siberia was finally joined to Russia in 1690 the fortress officially received the status of a town. One of the largest hydropower stations was built here in 1960.
