Akademgorodok

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Akademgorodok (Template:Lang-ru), located 20 km south of Novosibirsk, Russia is the educational and scientific centre of Siberia.

It is located in the center of a majestic birch and pine forest and on the shore of the Ob Sea, a man-made reservoir on the great Siberian river Ob. Formally it is a part of Novosibirsk city, and has never been a closed city like, for example, Seversk.

Located within Akademgorodok is Novosibirsk State University (NSU), 35 research institutes, an agricultural academy, medical academy, apartment houses and cottages, and a variety of community amenities including stores, hotels, hospitals, restaurants and cafes, cinemas, clubs and libraries. The House of Scientists (Dom Uchyonykh), a social center of Akademgorodok, hosts a library containing 100,000 volumes - Russian classics, modern literature and also many American, British, French, German, Polish books and magazines. The House of Scientists also includes a picture gallery, lecture halls and a fine concert hall. The performances given by musical celebrities and theatrical stars in this hall are second to none.

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The town, whose name would translate to English as Academy Town, was founded in the 1950s by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Academician Mikhail Alexeyevich Lavrentyev, a prominent physicist and mathematician, the first Chairman of the Siberian Division of the Soviet Academy of Science, played a prominent role at establishing Akademgorodok. At its peak, Akademgorodok was home to 65,000 scientists and their families, and was a privileged area to live in, with well-stocked stores and dachas.

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