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Krasnodar

Krasnodar
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About Krasnodar

Krasnodar, formerly Yekaterinodar, is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern Russia, with a population of 1,154,885 residents, and up to 1.263 million residents in the Urban Okrug. In the past decade Krasnodar has experienced rapid population growth, rising to become the tenth-largest city in Russia, and the largest city in southern Russia, as well as the Southern Federal District.

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When they play Krasnodar, which is one of the teams in their league, they have to, if they want to fly, it would be at least 16 hours, just over 16 hours to get to this game.

from No Such Thing As Pop Charts for Bagpipers, 2020-12-11 at 00:45:33 ยท read transcript

Other times Krasnodar came up

  1. If they played in the Japanese J-League, for instance, they're actually quite close to Hokkaido. Let's say all the plane stopped and they had to play either against someone like Krasnodar or someone around there or against Hokkaido, it would take them two days quicker to get to Hokkaido than it would take them to get to that part of Russia. That's if they were to walk to Haqaeda and get a car to Russia.

    No Such Thing As Pop Charts for Bagpipers, 2020-12-11 ยท listen

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Coordinates: 45.0333, 38.9667

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