Akademgorodok

coat of arms
Federal district	Siberia
Oblast	Novosibirsk
city	Novosibirsk
Founded	1957
District of Novosibirsk since	1957
Height of the center	200 m
Time zone	UTC + 7
Telephone code	(+7) 383
Post Code	630090
Website	www.academgorodok.ru
Geographical location
Coordinates	54 ° 51 ' N , 83 ° 6' E Coordinates: 54 ° 50 '59 " N , 83 ° 6' 8" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in Novosibirsk Oblast

Akademgorodok ( Russian Академгородок - "academic town") is a district of Novosibirsk in Siberia ( Russia ) built in 1957 . The city of scientists is located about 20 km south of the center of Novosibirsk in the middle of birch and pine forests on the banks of the Ob reservoir . Akademgorodok is considered the scientific center of Siberia and is the seat of the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences .

history

The entrance to Akademgorodok

A house in Akademgorodok

The Russian physicist and mathematician Mikhail Alexejewitsch Lavrentjew (Михаил Алексеевич Лаврентьев, 1900–1980), first chairman of the Siberian Department of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, played an important role in the establishment of the district . After its establishment, numerous research institutions and the Novosibirsk State University were set up within a very short time .

At the peak of Soviet research, the Novosibirsk district was home to 65,000 scientists and their families, and was a privileged zone for the academic elite. A total of around 200,000 people lived here. The computer Kronos (Computer) 2.6 designed by Alexei Nedoria and Swetlana Tichonowa was the only Soviet model to be produced in large series here.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Akademgorodok began to decline, as many scientists left the institutes for Western Europe or the USA . By 1999 the population had shrunk to around 50,000. The city still enjoys a good reputation in areas such as nuclear physics and microbiology. In addition, a large number of software companies have settled in the vicinity of the university in the course of the 1990s, which can fall back on many well-trained mathematicians and computer scientists. This is how the term Silicon Taiga , based on Silicon Valley , was coined , especially in the West and in the wake of the New Economy euphoria .

For the residents of Novosibirsk , Akademgorodok continues to be an attractive residential area.

location

Akademgorodok from a bird's eye view

Surrounded by forests and not far from the reservoir, with good connections to the city center at the same time, Akademgorodok consists of four districts: Микрорайон д, щ, Верхная Зона, Шлюз (Mikro rajon д (De), щ (Schtscha), Upper Zone, Lock) .

The microrajons д and щ are mainly pure residential districts in which the companies have only moderately settled. A military academy is the only higher education institution in the Щ district. In the upper zone, on the other hand, there are living spaces as well as faculties and company headquarters. As the name suggests, the Schleuse district is located at the lock, which regulates shipping traffic between the Ob reservoir and the Ob River. This is a residential area.

Akademgorodok belongs to the Sovietsky Rajon of the city of Novosibirsk. Other districts in the south of Novosibirsk are also assigned to this district.

The new Akademgorodok Exhibition Center

Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics

Novosibirsk State University

Institutes

The Novosibirsk Science Center of the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Akademgorodok includes more than 40 scientific institutes and laboratories. The most well-known and traditional institutes include:

The Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics
The Boreskow Institute for Catalysis
The Institute for Semiconductor Physics
The Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
The United Institute for Computer Science, including the computer center
The United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy
The Institute of Biochemistry

The largest institute with around 2000 employees is the Budker Institute for Nuclear Physics, named after Gersch Izkowitsch Budker . It continues to host high-level international conferences today. In the new exhibition center, which was significantly expanded on the occasion of the 50th anniversary in 2007, there is a permanent exhibition on the scientific achievements and technologies from all institutes.

The Novosibirsk State University , the largest university in Siberia, is also located in Akademgorodok . The Medical Academy of Sciences is also located here. Since 2007, a technology park has been set up for innovative companies, especially spin-off companies from the academy institutes and from the university.

The sun museum is located in the village .