Barnaul's districts: statistics, features, interesting facts

Barnaul is the capital of the Altai Territory, the largest city in the southern part of Western Siberia. It was founded in 1730. What are the areas of Barnaul, how many of them are there and what is interesting each of them? In this article, we will talk about this.

Districts of Barnaul: general statistics

Barnaul is a large industrial center, home to about 630,000 people. The city closes the top twenty in the ranking of the best cities in Russia in terms of quality of life. Local economy, mainly, is represented by enterprises of chemical, food industry, and also machine building.

In the administrative-territorial plan, the city's territory is divided into five districts:

• Railway
• Leninist
• October
• Industrial
• Central

The districts of Barnaul differ in their area, number of inhabitants and other indicators. More detailed statistical information about them is presented in the following table:

Districts of Barnaul: features and interesting facts

As can be seen from the table, the largest area is the Central District of the city. The smallest - Rail - less than it almost five times. But the most populated is the Industrial District. At least 180 thousand people live in it.

The central position in the city is occupied by the railway district. In the construction it is represented mainly by the private sector. Here is the main railway station, as well as a number of universities. But the Central District is rightly considered the "trading mecca" of the city. After all, there are 9 markets and about 300 trading companies. In addition, in the Central area is concentrated a large number of architectural monuments and beautiful old buildings of Barnaul.

All the existing areas of Barnaul were established at different times: Rail, Central and October - in February 1938; Leninsky - in 1972, and Industrial - in 1978.