Statistics of Abakan

The total area of Abakan: more than 112 square km

Water surface: 14 sq. km

Length of the land along rivers and canals: 22 km

Number of islands in Abakan: 27

Population of Abakan:

1920: 1 500
1930: 10 700
1940: 36 700
1950: 37 700
1960: 58 700
1980: 132 700
1990: 156 600
2000 July: 168 700 people

Distance by the railway from Abakan:

Vladivostok - 5 422 km
Odessa - 5 351 km
Sochi - 4 967 km
Riga - 4 920 km
St-Petersburg - 4 440 km
Archangelsk - 4 383 km
Moscow - 4 054 km
Irkutsk - 1 309 km
Novosibirsk - 843 km
Tayshet - 647 km
Krasnoyarsk- 585 km
Novokuznetsk- 390 km

Meteorological information:

Average annual temperature in Abakan: -0,4 C

Average winter temperature in Abakan (Dec-Febr): -16 C

Average summer temperature in Abakan (May-Sep): +17.5 C

The highest temperature in shade (in August, 1939, May and July, 1974): +38 C

The lowest temperature (in January, 1933, 1940, 1981): -50, 52 C

Number of sunny days: 311

Period with positive temperature: 200 days

Freezing of rivers:

The earliest time: 26 Oct, 1976

The latest: 7 December, 1972

The earliest floating of ice: 4 April, 1947

The latest  floating of ice: 13 May, 1936

The highest summer temperature: +25 C (29 July, 1962)