Achinsk

Achinsk is a city of regional subordination in Russia, the administrative center of the Achinsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

By population, Achinsk is the third settlement in the region after Krasnoyarsk and Norilsk. Population 105,264 (2017).

Achinsk is located 170 km west of Krasnoyarsk, on the spurs of the Arga ridge, on the right bank of the Chulym River (the tributary of the Ob), when crossing it with the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The climate is sharply continental. Winter is long and cold, summer is relatively warm.

One of the oldest known settlements in the Achinsky district is the Achinsky paleontological site (20-28 thousand years BC). Here archaeologists found the first lunar calendar. The city was founded on July 25, 1641 as the Achinsky fortress on the White Jus River. After the fire of 1683, it was transferred to the Chulym River, at the confluence of the Achinka River. Name by location on the lands of the Turkic tribal group Achi, Achigi. In 1782, the prison was transferred to the category of county cities. Since 1822 - the district city of the Yenisei province.

Since 1990, Achinsk has been included in the official list of Russian cities with historical and cultural value of all-Russian significance.

In the city: 11 health care institutions, schools - 20 units, boarding schools - 4 units, preschool educational institutions - 26 units, educational institutions of primary vocational education - 5, educational institutions of secondary vocational education - 7, educational institutions of higher professional education - 6, special (correctional) educational boarding schools - 2, evening (shift) general educational institutions - 1, social security institutions - 5 units.

In Achinsk, there is a dramatic theater, a museum and exhibition center, and a House of Culture.