Biography of Kansk

The cultural heritage of the city of Kansk stands on the Kan River, the right tributary of the Yenisei, in the middle of a rather flat, but picturesque forest -steppe. The first Kansky prison was built in a year 43 km below the modern city.

In the year, the prison was transferred to its current place. There were no permanent population in Kansk up to a year when several Cossack families were sent from Krasnoyarsk here. Soon, a stone cathedral is being built in Kansk, and not every Siberian city was awarded this honor. Industry arises, there is an active cultural life: for example, theater and cinema appeared in the city before the revolution.

In the year, in the vicinity of Kansk, bloody events of the Civil War unfolded. Bolshevik partisan detachments acted in the forests, trying to even arrange uprisings, but without the support of the regular Red Army, not successful. In the year, the Czech writer Yaroslav Hashka stayed in the city, and not only stopped, but also managed to get married. In Soviet times, Kansk retained its industrial character, for example, the name of the Kansko-Achinsky coal basin, one of the largest in Russia.

The main industry of local industry is forest processing, there is a large TPP here. Along with the Yenisei, Minusinsky, Achinsky and Krasnoyarsk itself, Kansk is part of the five cities of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, which retained uncertain pre -revolutionary buildings and therefore representing interest for the traveler: however, of all five cities, the smallest.

Against the backdrop of Achinsk, comparable in its size, in Kansk, a careless attitude to the urban environment is especially acute in Kansk - from Buryan in the central square to the abundance of garbage and completely missing sidewalks. In the central part of Russia, it would be a classic county city N, attracting only very enthusiastic local historians, but in Siberia the opposite is true: Kansk is the most interesting city on the entire long, almost daily section of the path from Irkutsk to Krasnoyarsk.

It is curious that at the end of the summer Kansk is shortly transformed in connection with the conduct of the International Kansky Video Festival of Experimental Cinema, made as a parody of the Cannes Film Festival for Classic Cinema. If from the side the holding of the film festival in Kansk looks like a simple game of words, supplemented by a comic prize - a “gold palm prize” as a opponent of the “golden palm branch” handed in the Cannes - then, being in the city, you will see in this festival either evil sarcasm, or an ascetic attempt to develop culture in a deaf Russian province.

In any case, once a year, the city is filled with people, losing its usual, sleepy and battered look during the festival. Orientation [edit] Old Kansk is located on the left southern bank of the Kan River. Interesting old buildings are most on the streets of Krasnopartizanskaya and Kaityskaya, which go parallel to the railway north of the central square. The city also extends beyond the river, to the right bank, where there are multi -storey buildings of the Soviet era.

How to get [edit] from Krasnoyarsk to Kansk can be reached with a long train, bus or train. All trains except the Beijing and Ulan-Batorsky stop in Kansk, the time from Krasnoyarsk is 4 hours. A direct train-express runs once a day at about the same speed as a long train. At another time, you can go by an electric shift with a transplant at Uyar station, but this is much longer.

Travel time is the same 4 hours. The price is the cheapest train - rubles, the bus - rub, and in the long train, the ticket to the reservoir is comparable at the price with the bus or more than common wagons in this area, with the exception of the Krasnoyarsk -Karabul train. On the highway R from Krasnoyarsk to Kansk km. The road goes to Kodinsk KM to the north, and the path will seem endless to the east: to Irkutsk km.

Huge sizes of the Soviet building are interesting except for a couple of stained -glass windows on the history of the city. On the second floor, a rather big waiting room. On the first there are cash desks, grocery nap and storage. There are rest rooms, there are no food places. The station is forced by freight wagons. For passenger trains, a lonely platform is used, which is possible only on a pedestrian bridge.

Stopping trains behind the bridge over Kang, m from the Spasskaya Church. The bus station has its own waiting room, as well as the round -the -clock cafe "Vostok" with high tables and the assortment of the diner. The courtyard of the bus station is the only place in the city where they tried to create a cozy atmosphere, although even here it did not quite work out. The fare: 22 rubles in the center are not needed.

On the other side of the river, to a new part of the city, you can drive by buses to the microdistrict.