Krasnoyarskwas named "the best and the most beautiful of Siberian cities" of the famous Russian writer Anton Chekhov, who wrote about the city in his travel essays, and bordering the city of mountain peaks, the writer compared with the mountains of the Caucasus. Velvet hills and hills Top-Sajanskogo foothills, pine covered forests, is sure to amaze everyone who come here. Of them offer incredible views of the city, spread out in giant size lowland, on both sides of the river Yenisei.
If You do decide to see the city of Krasnoyarsk from an unusual angle, from what I see it flying in the sky birds You should in the first place, to take a cable car to the peaks of mountains Kuysumsky. Here, right under your feet, will all the streets, squares, gardens and parks of Krasnoyarsk, its skyscrapers and pipe industry, marinas and ports. Near the waterfront at the confluence of the Yenisei and Kacha, is mooring at the famous steamer "Saint Nicholas", which, ironically, was first, the future Tsar Nicholas II, who traveled to the Yenisei, and later went into exile revolutionary V. I. Lenin. These types open to You from the North from the cable car lift. Also on the southern side rise up stone outcrops – Pillars, the conquest of which the dream of generations of Amateurs and professionals for climbing – "stolbists".
The city will also be interesting to admirers of picturesque old architecture. Due to the fact that Krasnoyarsk was built in the XVII century - have been preserved here to the present days huge number of ancient buildings belonging to different historical periods. This wooden towers with decorative joiner's elements, and the stone Church, the building time of Stalin classicism and industrial constructivism, as well as a completely unique construction of the so-called "Siberian art Nouveau".
During the time of the founding of the city on the top of the Karaulnaya hill was built as watchtower, which after a couple of centuries transformed into the chapel Parasceve Friday, the building is very similar to a candle, its octagonal concise manner. This chapel is a symbol of the modern Krasnoyarsk. The city is a daily noon cannon firing, which produces howitzer, dug into the ground slightly below the hill from the chapel.
A more modern symbol of the city is a huge Communal bridge, erected on poles existed here before the king's bridge, which in the early twentieth century competed with the Eiffel Tower in Paris at the world exhibition.