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 Marina Popovich, Lavr Kornilov, and Mikhail Alekseyev. 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, formerly Yekaterinodar, 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 1,154,885 residents, and up to 1.263 million residents in the Urban Okrug. In the past decade Krasnodar has experienced rapid population growth, rising to become the tenth-largest city in Russia, and the largest city in southern Russia, as well as the Southern Federal District. Read more on Wikipedia