Новосибирск - наш дом родной

Novosibirsk is our native home.

Novosibirsk is one of the best city of our country. There are many historical monuments and buildings, theatres and places to relax.

1. In 1993 the biggest city of Asian part of Russia Novosibirsk was 100 years of age. Novosibirsk (Novonikolayevsk) was born in the point of intersection of the mighty Siberian River Ob and Trans-Siberian Railway built according to the rescript of Russian emperor Alexander the 3-rd.

The city appeared at a crossing of trading routes - a river and railway - was developing at a superfast rate of growth unprecedented for Siberia and Russia. Even the first city head V.Zhernakov marked, that Novonikolayevsk had got a nickname "American city". Later on Novosibirsk was named "Siberian Chicago".

New development of Novosibirsk has been continued in the twenties, when the city became the center of new administrative formation - the vast Siberian territory.

According to designs of talented Siberian architects with prof. A.Kryachkov at the head many buildings, nowadays monuments of architecture, have been erected in the center of city.

2. For cities with the thousand-year traditions a center is only a moment of the history. For Novosibirsk it is all life. Chronicle of this life in photographs is in front of you.

Novosibirsk Science Centre, the largest at the SB RAS, includes about one-half of the Siberian Branch resources.

According to the Government’s resolution of setting up the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences adopted in 1957, it was the first to be founded. It comprised both newly set up institutes and the institutes of the West-Siberian

Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences that has been functioning since 1944. Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, situated 30 km to the south of the city centre, was intended as the world-first comprehensive science centre. Here, according to the SB RAS founders’ idea, research teams authoritative in all major fields of basic science were formed.

3. Mathematical and computer sciences are advanced at the Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, the Institute of Computational -Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics, and the United Institute of Informatics that comprises the Institute of Computational Technologies, Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems and Design and Technology Institute of Data Processing Equipment. A strong team of mathematicians was formed at the Lavrentiev Institute of Hydrodynamics.