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Barnaul

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.

Barnaul
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The place

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.

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What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barnaul

8 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Altai State Pedagogical University

    Altai State Pedagogical University is a federal state budget institution of higher education in Barnaul, Russia.

    1.3 km · university in Russia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Barnaul Eparchy

    The Diocese of Barnaul is a diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, uniting parishes and monasteries in the northeastern part of the Altai Krai. It is part of the Altai Metropolitanate.

    1.8 km · diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Altai State Medical University

    Altai State Medical University is a public university in Barnaul, Russia. The university was known as Altai State Medical Institute until 1994.

    900 m · public university in Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Altai State University

    Altai State University (Russian: Алтайский государственный университет is a public research university in Barnaul, Russia. It was established as the first multidisciplinary university in Altai Krai in 1973.

    500 m · university in Barnaul, Russia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Altai State Technical University

    The leading technological and scientific university of the Altai region, Altai State Technical University is one of a number of universities in the city of Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia, and is among the largest institutions of higher education in Russia. It was founded in February 1942 by Zaporizhie Automechanical Institute.

    700 m · technical university in Barnaul, Russia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Demidov Square

    Demidov Square is a square in the Tsentralny City District of Barnaul in Russia, named after the Demidov dynasty. It is the site of the Demidovsky Pillar.

    2.2 km · square in Barnaul, Russia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Demidovsky Pillar

    The Demidovsky Pillar is a modern obelisk on Demidov Square in the Central District of Barnaul, Russia. It is a memorial to 100 years of mining in the Altai Krai.

    2.3 km · modern obelisk on Demidov Square in the Central District of Barnaul, Russia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Nagorny Park

    Nagorny Park — is the oldest park in Barnaul, Altai Krai, Russia. The park opened in 1993 and is located at Central District of Barnaul.

    3.1 km · park in Russia · Wikipedia

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Do

Things to do

House Club (Клуб Хаус), 15, Solnechnaya Polyana. Restaurant, sauna, hooka-lounge, disco floor and bowling.

From Wikivoyage: Barnaul, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Manhattan Pizza (Манхэттен-Пицца), Trade-centers 'Holiday classic' (Холидей классик) or 'City center' (Сити-Центр). A chain of pretty good fast-food restaurants. Zapravka (Заправка, гриль-бар), 51a, Kirova st,. 12:00-2:00. It's a grill bar. Pozharka (Пожарка), 49, Chkalova st,. Anti-fire grill-bar with a fire-truck inside.

From Wikivoyage: Barnaul, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Barnaul

Airports
Barnaul Gherman Titov (BAX), 16 km · Novosibirsk Tolmachevo (OVB), 201 km · Alexei Leonov Kemerovo (KEJ), 262 km
  • Novosibirsk → Barnaul
    192 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · ₽850–1,130
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  • Kemerovo → Barnaul
    270 km · quickest by air, 6h 1m · ₽4,630–7,180
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  • Tomsk → Barnaul
    358 km · quickest by air, 6h 37m · ₽5,450–8,470
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barnaul

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Barnaul. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in}} To get into the city, take marshrutka number 144 or bus number 110.
  • Get aroundInside the city there are routes of public buses (about 150), marshrutkas, taxis, trams (11) and trolleys (5).

From Wikivoyage: Barnaul, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Karakol and the Issyk-Kul east shoreKG

    12 ways of moving, 20 sources

    1,271 km
  2. 02
    KhujandTJ

    9 ways of moving, 27 sources

    1,802 km
  3. 03
    Panjakent and the Fann MountainsTJ

    11 ways of moving, 16 sources

    1,968 km
  4. 04
    Karimabad (Hunza)PK

    9 ways of moving, 35 sources

    2,020 km
  5. 05
    LehIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    2,188 km

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