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Krasnodar is the capital of Krasnodar Krai in southern Russia, on the right bank of the Kuban River, known as the capital of Kuban and famous for its Cossack past and for Krasnodar Park beside the Ozon Arena. Its top sights are Krasnodar Park, St. Catherine's Cathedral, the Alexander Triumphal Arch and the Kovalenko Art Museum.
Black Sea Cossacks founded the city in 1793 as Yekaterinodar, Catherine's Gift, honouring Catherine the Great's grant of Kuban land, and it gained town status in 1867. It was renamed Krasnodar on 7 December 1920, and German forces occupied it from 9 August 1942 to 12 February 1943.
Krasnodar had 1,154,885 people at the start of 2025, the tenth-largest city in Russia and one of its fastest growing. It lies 1,300 km south of Moscow and 120 km from the Black Sea, with a humid subtropical climate, and trams and trolleybuses are its main public transport.
Krasnodar Park, known locally as Galitsky Park, is a city park in Krasnodar, Russia, built with money from businessman Sergey Galitsky and opened on 28 September 2017. Designed by Germany's gmp International beside the stadium, it has fountains, an amphitheatre and thousands of planted trees.
Ozon Arena, called Krasnodar Stadium until 1 May 2025, is the football ground of FC Krasnodar in Krasnodar, Russia, paid for entirely by Sergey Galitsky. Its travertine colonnade recalls a Greek amphitheatre, and a 4,700 m² ring screen runs right around the stands.
Chistyakovskaya Grove is one of the oldest and largest parks in Krasnodar, Russia, covering 36 hectares in the Central district. Created by a city decree in 1900 and named after town head Gavriil Chistyakov, it holds a memorial to wartime victims, rides and a rope park.
Solnechny Ostrov Park is a large park in southern Krasnodar, Russia, on the banks of the Kuban River and the Staraya Kuban lake. Begun by businessman Adolf Rokkel in the early 1900s and opened as a park in 1959, it is a natural monument with 90 kinds of trees and shrubs.
St. Catherine's Cathedral is the cathedral of the Kuban Metropolis in Krasnodar, Russia, raised on Yekaterininskaya Square in place of a wooden church of 1818. Designed by city architect Ivan Malgerb, it was laid down on 23 April 1900 and consecrated on 24 March 1914.
Alexander Nevsky Military Cathedral is the Cossack army cathedral of Krasnodar, Russia, first built in 1853 to 1872 in the Russian-Byzantine style. It kept the regalia of the Kuban Cossack Host, was destroyed in 1932, and was recreated on a new site between 2003 and 2006.
Holy Trinity Cathedral is a brick Orthodox church in Krasnodar, Russia, laid down on 3 October 1899 to a design by Ivan Malgerb and consecrated on 7 June 1910. Built in the Russian style with 11 domes and a four-tier bell tower, it was closed in 1960 and is a working church again.
Catherine II Monument is a monument to the empress in Krasnodar, Russia, first unveiled on 6 May 1907 to a design by Mikhail Mikeshin, torn down in 1920 and recreated in 2006. Standing 13.81 m tall, it carries her 1792 charter to the Black Sea Cossacks and figures of three atamans.
Kovalenko Art Museum is one of the oldest art museums in the North Caucasus, in Krasnodar, Russia, holding about 13,000 works. Its collection runs from Russian icons to the avant-garde, with Japanese woodblock prints, and it fills two historic mansions on Krasnaya Street.
Felitsyn Museum is the historical and archaeological museum-reserve of Krasnodar, Russia, founded in 1879 by statistician Yevgeny Felitsyn as the Cossack army's museum. Most of its archaeological collection, including gold from Scythian mounds, was lost in the 1942 to 1943 occupation.
Krasnodar Shukhov Tower is a steel lattice hyperboloid water tower in Krasnodar, Russia, built to the design of engineer Vladimir Shukhov and put into service in November 1935 with the city water supply. It stands beside the Krasnodar State Circus and is a listed monument.
Alexander Triumphal Arch, also called the Tsar's Gate, is a Russian-style arch in central Krasnodar, Russia, at the corner of Krasnaya and Babushkina streets. First raised for Emperor Alexander III's visit in 1888 and destroyed in 1928, it was rebuilt on a new site in 2009.
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