Morskoy Prospekt, Novosibirsk

Morskoy Prospekt or Morskoy Avenue (Russian: Морской проспект) is a street in the Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk, Russia. It is one of the central streets of the science city. The prospekt starts from the intersection with Academician Lavrentyev Avenue and Tereshkova Street, runs south-west and then forms a crossroad with Berdskoye Highway. Berdskoe Highway, a narrow strip of forest and a railway line separate it from the bank of the Novosibirsk Reservoir, popularly known as the Sea of Ob', hence the name (lit. 'Sea Avenue').

Morskoy Prospekt
Native nameМорской проспект
LocationNovosibirsk
Russia

The streets adjacent to the prospekt: Detsky Proyezd, Zolotodolinskaya, Pravda, Ilyich, Uchyonykh, Maltsev and Zhemchuzhnaya streets.

History

Street buildings were built in the late 1950s and 1960s.[1]

In 1966, Charles de Gaulle visited Morskoy Prospekt. Residents of the avenue were on balconies and roofs of their houses and looked at the president of France.[1]

Morskoy Prospekt was fully built in 1968.[1]

In 1976, Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme visited the street.[1]

In 1983, Rajiv Gandhi visited the prospekt.[1]

Morskoy Prospekt was the most expensive place to buy real estate in the city in 2014.[1]

Organiztions

  • The House of Scientists

Notable residents

gollark: If I figure out the moderator rules and get this simulator working (and hook it up to a genetic algorithm library) I hope it will be possible to design reactors which are stupider than any before.
gollark: Mine is 9x9x9, runs LEN-236 oxide at 34kRF/t or so, and is entirely passively cooled at the cost of several thousand glowstone.
gollark: Won't do 600H/t though.
gollark: 1000% or so on my 27-cell reactor.
gollark: Reactor 2 at my base uses it.

References

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