1. Barnaul is located 2932 kilometers away from Moscow, with the closest major city being Novosibirsk.

2. While in Novosibirsk we agreed upon a password by which we could identify one another when we reached our destination.

3. Altaysky kray, IPA: [ɐlˈtajskʲɪj kraj]) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai).It borders clockwise from the west, Kazakhstan (East Kazakhstan Region and Pavlodar Region), Novosibirsk and Kemerovo Oblasts, and the Altai Republic.The krai's administrative center is the city of Barnaul.As of the 2010 Census, the population of the krai