Barnaul
| Barnaul (English) Барнаул (Russian) |
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| City Day | One of Sundays in August or September |
| Administrative status (as of June 2014) | |
| Country | Russia |
| Federal subject | Altai Krai |
| Administratively subordinated to | city of krai significance of Barnaul |
| Administrative center of | Altai Krai, city of krai significance of Barnaul |
| Municipal status (as of July 2009) | |
| Urban okrug | Barnaul Urban Okrug |
| Administrative center of | Barnaul Urban Okrug |
| Head | Lyudmila Zubovich |
| Representative body | City Duma |
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| Population (2010 Census) | 612,401 inhabitants |
| - Rank in 2010 | 21st |
| Time zone | KRAT (UTC+07:00) |
| Founded | 1730s |
| City status since | 1771 |
| Postal code(s) | 656000, 656002–656004, 656006, 656008, 656010–656012, 656015, 656016, 656018, 656019, 656021, 656023–656025, 656031, 656033, 656035–656039, 656043–656045, 656048–656050, 656052–656060, 656062–656068, 656700, 656880, 656890, 656899, 656905, 656960, 656961, 656963–656966, 656998, 656999, 901024, 901213 |
| Dialing code(s) | +7 3852 |
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Barnaul (Russian: Барнаул; IPA: [bərnɐˈul]) is a city and the administrative center of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka River into the Ob River in the West Siberian Plain. At the end of 2015, the city had a population above 700,000 people, making it the 21st largest city in Russia. The population of the Barnaul metropolitan area is estimated to be over 1.14 million.
Barnaul is located in the forest steppe zone of the West Siberian Plain, on the left bank of the Ob River, at the confluence of Barnaulka into the Ob.
Barnaul is the closest major city to the Altai Mountains to the south. The border with Kazakhstan is only in 345 km to the south-west, whereas the distance from Moscow is 3580 km. The city is also situated relatively close to the border with Mongolia and China.
Barnaul lies in the UTC+7:00 time zone, the difference with the Moscow Time thus being plus three hours.
The area around the city has been inhabited by Modern Humans, Neanderthals & Denisovans, for hundreds of thousands of years. In the late BC millennia, the locality was the centre of activity for Scythians and various Turkic peoples.
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