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Akademgorodok (, Academic Town) is a part of the Sovetsky District of the city of Novosibirsk, Russia, located 30 km south of the city center and about 10 km west of the Science town Koltsovo. It is the educational and scientific centre of Siberia.
It is surrounded by a birch and pine forest on the shore of the Ob Sea, an artificial reservoir on the river Ob. Formally it is a part of Novosibirsk city, and has never been a closed city.
Located within Akademgorodok is Novosibirsk State University, 35 research institutes, medical academy, apartment buildings and houses, 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 concert hall.
Akademgorodok, meaning: "academic campus" or "academic town") is a name of districts in several cities in former USSR (now in Russia and Ukraine):
- Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk - probably the largest one
- Akademgorodok (Tomsk) - in Tomsk, Russia
- Akademgorodok (Krasnoyarsk) - in Krasnoyarsk, Russia
- Akademgorodok also known as Akademmistechko (disambiguation) in Kiev, Ukraine
Akademgorodok (Krasnoyarsk ) is a major scientific center of Siberia; located in the west of the city Krasnoyarsk ( Russia). Built during the Soviet times, it was conceived as a healthier, privileged enclave for academics to live in, among trees and vegetation and outside of the dirtier industrial areas.
Tomsk Akademgorodok forest
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Monument to academician Vladimir Zuev that founded the Tomsk Scientific Center SB RAS and the created Akodemgorodok
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Republican Scientific-Technical Center at ISPMS SD RAS
]] Tomsk Akademgorodok is an estate in the Soviet area of Tomsk, Siberian Federal District, in which are research institutes, and have employees of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS). Tomsk Akademgorodok is located in the eastern part of the Tomsk and on all sides surrounded by forests. Tomsk Akademgorodok is located on the high right bank of the river Ushaika. Its total area is 200 hectares. Construction of Tomsk Akademgorodok began in 1972. The Grand opening of the first scientific institute in Tomsk, Akademgorodok-the Institute of Atmospheric Optics, was held on January 25, 1975 .