Nazarovo

a mountain range in the Zapadnyi Saian, in the southern part of Krasnoiarsk Krai, RSFSR. The range is 35 km long and rises to a maximum elevation of 1,642 m. It is composed of chlorite schists, interrupted in the northern part by intrusions of granite. The slopes are covered with cedar, spruce, and fir forests.

a city under krai jurisdiction, center of Nazarovo Raion, Krasnoiarsk Krai, RSFSR. Situated on the left bank of the Chulym River, a tributary of the Ob’. Railroad station on the Achinsk-Abakan line, 38 km south of Achinsk. Population, 44,200 (1970).

The Nazarovo State Regional Electric Power Plant is located in the city. Nazarovo has plants that produce reinforced-concrete structural members and bricks and a plant producing equipment for the crushing and sorting of gravel and rocks. There are also garment and furniture factories and a milk-bottling combine. Nazarovo has technicums of construction and power-engineering construction, as well as a medical school. There is also a museum of local lore. Lignite is mined nearby, at the Nazarovo deposits. Nazarovo was given city status in 1961.