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.