Akademgorodok
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Akademgorodok (Академгородо́к) (pop. 100,000 est.), 30 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. Located within Akademgorodok is Novosibirsk State University (http://www.nsu.ru/) (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 Academic Town, was founded in the 1950s by the USSR Academy of Sciences. Academician Mikhail Alexeyevich Lavrentyev, a prominent physicist and mathematician, the first Chairman of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Science, played a prominent role at establishing Akademgorodok. At its peak, Akademgorodok was home of 65,000 scientists and their families, and was a privileged area to live in, with well-stocked stores and dachas.
List of research and education facilities in Akademgorodok
- Kutateladze Institute of Thermal Physics,
- Institute of Inorganic Chemistry,
- United Institute of Catalysis,
- Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry,
- Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics,
- United Institute of Informatics and Mathematical Geophysics,
- Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry,
- Institute of Cytology and Genetics,
- Sobolev Institute of Mathematics,
- United Institute of Geology,
- Geophysics and Mineralogy,
- United Institute of Automation and Electrometry,
- United Institute of Semiconductor Physics,
- Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics,
- Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion,
- United Institute of Hydrodynamics,
- United Institute of History,
- Philology and Philosophy,
- Institute of Laser Physics,
- Central Siberian Botanical Gardens,
- Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry,
- Research Institute of Circulation Pathology,
- Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering,
- Presdium of the Sibirian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,
- Scientists' House,
- Novosibirsk State University Novosibirsk State University (http://www.nsu.ru),
- Physical-Mathematical School,
- Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography,
- Central Siberian Geological Museum.