Barnaul is the largest city and administrative centre of Altai Krai, Russia, located at the confluence of the Barnaulka and Ob Rivers in the West Siberian Plain. As of the 2021 census, its population was 630,877, making it the 20th-largest city in Russia and the fourth-largest in the Siberian Federal District.
Barnaul as seen from the Nagorny Park
A historical wooden house in Barnaul on the Socialisticheskiy Prospect
A historical wooden house used to be as the Imperator Restaurant (former Russian Tea Restaurant), now under reconstruction
View of central Barnaul in the summer of 2007
Altai Krai is a federal subject of Russia. It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Oblasts, and the Altai Republic. The krai's administrative centre is the city of Barnaul. As of the 2021 Census, the population of the krai was 2,163,693.
Ob Plateau, Altai Krai. The east–west "spikes" are ravines in the surface of the area; they lie slightly lower than the surrounding, lighter-toned agricultural lands. The dark zones are forested with pines and dotted with salt-rich lakes. The image shows a distance of a little more than 300 km (190 mi) from left to right, and the forested spikes are nearly that length. Barnaul is at center right, on the Ob River.
Devil Mountain, Altaysky District
Krai Administration seat in the Soviets Square, Barnaul
Cathedral of the Protection of the Theotokos in Barnaul, Altai Krai
