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Krasnoyarsk Krai (growing region) is a Growing Region: a named region that sits above Growing Areas and below the regional complex and gene pool. It covers the south of Krasnoyarsk Krai between the Angara and the Minusinsk basin: the wild and weedy hemp of the farmland in the island forest-steppes, the Chulym–Yenisei basin and the southern taiga. The south of the krai, on the floor of the Minusinsk basin, is the subject of Minusinsk Basin; the krai as an administrative unit is the subject of Krasnoyarsk Krai.

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Why the region is on the map

• The krai office of Rosselkhoznadzor reports wild hemp on farmland every year: 347 patches on more than 2,066 hectares in 2014; 1,440 hectares on 190 plots in 2017, with figures for five districts (through АиФ Красноярск); 1.6 thousand hectares in 2024, found every year "in many administrative districts" of the krai's farming zone; 1,182 hectares in 2025 and 741 hectares in 2026, with district figures in both years.
• The police report wild hemp in Emelyanovsky and Nazarovsky districts (2021), in Krasnoyarsk (2026) and round Achinsk (2026), a separate kind of source from the inspectorate.
• Floras and weed surveys: Antipova (2012) for the three island forest-steppes; Beketova, Ivanova and Zhokhova (2019) for Emelyanovsky and Sukhobuzimsky districts and the taiga districts to the north.
• The figures are reported by the krai and by its districts, so the region takes the krai's name; the words "(growing region)" in the title keep it apart from the page on the krai itself.

Growing status

The status is Active. The inspectorate says it has found wild hemp on the krai's farmland every year since 2008, and its latest figures are for 2026. No source dated 2000 or later says hemp is sown in the region; the prose gives the 19th-century hemp-oil trade of the settlers with its period only.

How the border is drawn

• The border is a proxy drawn on the districts and town okrugs of Krasnoyarsk Krai that lie south of the Angara and outside the Minusinsk basin, as they were before the krai merged its districts into larger okrugs (OpenStreetMap relations as of June 2022). They are the districts of Achinsky, Bogotolsky, Nazarovsky, Sharypovsky, Uzhursky, Balakhtinsky, Novosyolovsky, Kozulsky, Bolsheuluysky, Birilyussky, Tyukhtetsky, Pirovsky, Kazachinsky, Bolshemurtinsky, Sukhobuzimsky, Emelyanovsky, Berezovsky, Mansky, Partizansky, Uyarsky, Sayansky, Rybinsky, Kansky, Irbeysky, Ilansky, Nizhneingashsky, Abansky, Dzerzhinsky and Taseyevsky, with the towns and closed towns of Krasnoyarsk, Achinsk, Bogotol, Nazarovo, Sharypovo, Kansk, Borodino, Divnogorsk, Sosnovoborsk, Kedrovy, Zheleznogorsk, Zelenogorsk and Solnechny.
• The Angara is the northern limit because the krai's spring wheat, its main grain crop, is sown mainly south of the Angara valley (Great Soviet Encyclopedia), and the inspectorate's figures come from the farming zone. Every district named in its reports lies either in this belt or in the Minusinsk basin.
• The southern edge meets the Minusinsk Basin growing region. Novosyolovsky and Balakhtinsky districts, which now form one okrug named in the inspectorate's list for 2026, are both in this region.
• The Achinsk forest-steppe growing area is inside the region and its line is the region's line where they meet.
• The region covers about 171,900 km², much of it taiga and the foothills of the Eastern Sayan as well as farmland. The map line is the district line: none of the region lies above 4,000 m (SRTM elevation), and the land that ESA WorldCover 2021 maps as bare or sparse vegetation, permanent snow and ice, or open water at its outer edge comes to less than half a per cent of it, so nothing is taken out. Rivers and the reservoirs on them, the Krasnoyarsk Reservoir among them, are inside the line.
• The infobox point (56.27, 93.12) is the centre of the shape.
• The border is not drawn from accession or news points.

The forest-steppes and the Chulym–Yenisei plain

• The Krasnoyarsk forest-steppe (5,400 km²) has no page of its own. Antipova (2012) and Beketova and co-authors (2019) record hemp there, and the inspectorate gave hectares for Berezovsky, Emelyanovsky and Sukhobuzimsky districts in 2017; in 2024 it reported 19 hectares cleared in Sukhobuzimsky District, and in 2026 it named Emelyanovsky and Bolshemurtinsko-Sukhobuzimsky okrugs without separate figures.
• Sharypovsky and Nazarovsky districts, on the Chulym–Yenisei plain, had the largest figures in 2025 and 2026 (602 and 468 hectares in Sharypovsky District). Only the inspectorate reports them, with the police in Nazarovsky District in 2021; the floras of the three forest-steppes do not cover these districts, and no source names a growing tract there.
• The Kansk forest-steppe (17,000 km²) has hemp in 15 of its 16 local floras (Antipova 2012) and 61.9 hectares in Kansky, Rybinsky and Dzerzhinsky districts in 2025.

Accessions

No accession is attached to the region. The Vavilov Institute's local hemp from Krasnoyarsk, catalogue number 114 (Grigoryev 2018), has no page of its own. In a table of the 1996 reproductions of the collection (Kutuzova and co-authors, Journal of the International Hemp Association, 1997), the name "Dikaya, Krasnoyarskii Krai" (dikaya, wild) stands seventh in a column whose seventh number is 114; the table does not print the number and the name on one line, so whether that name belongs to the same accession is not settled.

Sources

• Rosselkhoznadzor, the federal office and its krai office: releases of 10 October 2014, 16 August 2024, 19 June, 16 July and 26 August 2025, 1 July and 12 October 2026. АиФ Красноярск (20 September 2017) and Запад24 (11 September 2026) report the inspectorate's figures.
• Police: Коммерсантъ (11 July 2021, from the krai police), Newslab.ru (16 July 2026, from the Krasnoyarsk city police), Запад24 (27 July 2026, Achinsk).
• Great Soviet Encyclopedia (3rd edition): the articles on Krasnoyarsk Krai and the Chulym–Yenisei basin.
• Antipova (2012), Флора внутриконтинентальных островных лесостепей Средней Сибири (Krasnoyarsk Pedagogical University): the three forest-steppes, their extent and their flora. Beketova, Ivanova and Zhokhova (2019), Вестник КрасГАУ: weeds of crops and waste ground, 2014–2018.
• Barantseva (2009), Вестник Челябинского государственного университета: settlement of the Yenisei governorate.
• Grigoryev (2018), Труды по прикладной ботанике, генетике и селекции: the Vavilov Institute's evaluation of hemp accessions.

Not used

• A paper on the Tatars of the Yenisei region (Barantseva 2012) lists hemp among the crops of the Tatar settlers in general, with no village, year or area; it does not place the hemp in Achinsk uezd, where many of them lived.
• The Great Soviet Encyclopedia lists of the krai's industrial crops (1972) do not name hemp. They are lists of examples, not a census.