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Minusinsk Okrug
Minusinsk (; ) is a historical types of inhabited localities in Russia, town in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Population: 44,500 (1973). History "About 330-200 B.C. the iron age triumphed at Minusinsk, producing spiked axes, partly bronze and partly iron, and a group of large collective burial places." Greco-Roman funerary masks, like those found at Pazyryk burials, Pazyryk, make up the "Minusinsk group: at Trifonova, Bateni, Beya, Kali, Znamenka, etc." "The Indo-European aristocracy with its Sarmatians, Sarmatian connections was succeeded at Minusinsk by the Kirghiz after the third century A.D." The Russian settlement of Minyusinskoye () was founded in 1739-1740Н. И. Дроздов, В. С. Боровец "Енисейский энциклопедический словарь". Krasnoyarsk, 1998 (), pp. 391. at the confluence of the Minusa River with the Yenisei River, Yenisei. The Turkic languages, Turkic ''Min Usa'' means "my brook", or "thousand rivers". The name tran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krasnoyarsk Krai
Krasnoyarsk Krai (, ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (a krai) of Russia located in Siberia. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Krasnoyarsk, the second-largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk. Comprising half of the Siberian Federal District, Krasnoyarsk Krai is the largest krai in Russia, the list of subdivisions of Russia by area, second-largest federal subject in the country after neighboring Sakha Republic, Sakha, and the list of the largest country subdivisions by area, third-largest country subdivision by area in the world. The krai covers an area of , constituting roughly 13% of Russia's total area. Krasnoyarsk Krai has a population of 2,856,971 as of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census. Geography The krai lies in the middle of Siberia, and occupies nearly half of the Siberian Federal District, almost splitting it in half, stretching from the Sayan Mountains in the south along the Yenisei River to the Tay ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
