Tell something about the history of your hometown My hometown is Barnaul. Barnaul located at Siberia. It was founded in 1730 year when people from Ural searched silver, copper and other minerals. Ba

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Tell something about the history of your hometown My hometown is Barnaul. Barnaul located at Siberia. It was founded in 1730 year when people from Ural searched silver, copper and other minerals. Barnaul is capital of region. It’s not very big, around 700,000 People leave here now. And it was started from 200 peasants. Architects that built the city studied from architects who built St. Petersburg. So my city a little bit same as St.Petersburg. Big events in history of this city is a big fire in 1917 year when two thirds of city burned out. Because Most of buildings where wood. And of course the second world war when to my hometown were moved a lot of factories from west part of USSR. Unfortunately a lot of factories was closed and went bankrupt in 90’s. Now it’s beautiful town but there is a small regional budget Unfortunately.

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Tell something about the history of your hometown

My hometown is Barnaul. Barnaul is situated in Siberia. It was founded in the year 1730 when people from Ural searched for silver, copper and other minerals.

Barnaul is the capital of the region. It’s not very big, around 700,000 people live here now. And it started with just 200 peasants.

Architects that built the city studied from architects who built St. Petersburg. So my city is a little bit similar to St.Petersburg.

Big events in the history of this city is a big fire in the year 1917, when two thirds of the city burned out. Because most of the buildings were made of wood.

And of course the second world war, when a lot of factories from the west part of the USSR were moved to my hometown.

Unfortunately, many factories was closed and went bankrupt in the 90’s.

Now it’s a beautiful town, but there is only a small regional budget, unfortunately.

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