Sovetsky City District, Novosibirsk

Sovetsky City District is an administrative district (raion), one of the 10 raions of Novosibirsk, Russia. It is located on the right and left banks of the Ob River. The area of the district is 89,2 km2 (34,4 sq mi).[1] Population: 141,911 (2018 Census).[2]

Sovetsky City District
District
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Location of Sovetsky City District
CountryRussia
Federal subjectNovosibirsk
Established26 March 1958
Area
 • Total89.2[1] km2 (Formatting error: invalid input when rounding sq mi)

History

The district was established on March 26, 1958.[1] The new raion included Ogurtsovo, Left Chyomy and Right Chyomy, Nizhnyaya Yeltsovka, "Shcha" Microdistrict and Academgorodok.

In 1959 more than 33,000 people lived in the Sovetsky District.[3]

Akademgorodok

Akademgorodok was founded in 1957.[4] Academicians Mikhail Lavrentyev, Sergey Sobolev, Andrey Trofimuk, Sergey Khristianovich and others played a big role in establishing of the naukograd.[5][6] The Institute of Hydrodynamics is one of the first research institutions that opened in the scientific town.[7]

December 30, 2014 Akademgorodok was included in The Register of Objects of Cultural Heritage (monuments of history and culture) of the Peoples of the Russian Federation[8][9]

Nizhnyaya Yeltsovka

The village has been known since the beginning of the 18th century.[3]

ObGES Microdistrict

Shlyuz Microdistrict
  • Sirenevaya Street

Science

Scientific organizations in Akademgorodok

Scientific organizations in Nizhnyaya Yeltsovka
  • Research Institute of Experimental and Clinical Medicine
  • Research Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics
  • Research Institute of Physiology and Fundamental Medicine
  • Department of the Institute of Mining of the SB RAS

Scientific organizations in Shlyuz Microdistrict
  • Research Institute of Automated Planning and Control Systems
  • Department of Trofimuk Institute of Petroleum Geology and Geophysics

Education

Novosibirsk State University

Novosibirsk State University is located in the Akademgorodok. It was established in 1959.[10]

Novosibirsk Lavrentyev Lyceum No. 130

Novosibirsk Lavrentyev Lyceum No. 130 is a school in Akademgorodok. It was founded in 1959.

Economy

Companies

Culture
Novosibirsk Railway Museum

Museums

Houses of culture
  • Akademia
  • Houses of scientists
  • Primorsky

Clubs
  • Quant is a humorous club of the Department of Physics of the Novosibirsk State University, founded in 1968. It's part of the team of the KVN NSU.[11]
  • Pod integralom (Under the integral) is a Soviet discussion club, organized in the Academgorodok in the early 1960s.[12]

Nature

Central Siberian Botanical Garden

Central Siberian Botanic Garden was founded in 1961.

  • Ondatra zibethicus

By the Ob Sea Park

By the Ob Sea is a park in the ObGES Microdistrict.

Religion

Christianity
  • Parish of the Annunciation, Shlyuz Microdistrict
  • Church of the Archangel Michael, ObGES Microdistrict
  • Orthodox gymnasium of Ignaty Bryanchaninov, lower zone of Akademgorodok

Buddhism

Rinchin Datsan in Nizhnyaya Yeltsovka

New religious movements

In 1989, the "Ashram Shambala" sect was created in the district.[13] It consisted of approximately 20,000 followers.[14]

Transportation

Railway

Four railway station are located in the district: Nizhnyaya Yeltsovka, Seyatel, Obskoye More and Beregovaya.

  • Seyatel Railway Station
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gollark: PotatOS is FOSS, you know, so you should use that.
gollark: .......
gollark: So Debian is nonfree because it says you can add a repository for nonfree stuff?
gollark: I've said it before, you know.

References
  1. The Novosibirsk government. Official site.
  2. Novosibirsk Oblast Territorial Branch of the Federal State Statistics Service. Численность населения по муниципальным районам и городским округам Новосибирской области на 1 января 2018 года и в среднем за 2017 год
  3. Navigator.
  4. Step into Silicon Forest, Putin's secret weapon in the global tech race. The Guardian.
  5. Akademgorodok. Encyclopædia Britannica.
  6. Основатели СО АН СССР. Музей истории СО РАН. The founders of the SB RAS. Museum of History of the SB RAS.
  7. Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics. Official site
  8. Forbidden Akademgorodok. NGS. Запретный Академгородок. НГС.
  9. Novosibirsk Akadengorodok included in the register of objects of cultural heritage of the Peoples of Russia. Vesti.Ru Новосибирский Академгородок включили в реестр объектов культурного наследия народов России. Вести.Ру
  10. Novosibirsk. Encyclopædia Britannica.
  11. Our chronicle: 1968. Akademia Novostey. Наша летопись: год 1968. Академия новостей
  12. Tayga.info
  13. Лидер секты «Ашрам Шамбала» Константин Руднев арестован в Новосибирске. Тайга.инфо. October 5, 2010.
  14. Konstantin Rudnev: Russian cult leader jailed for sex abuse. The Telegraph. 08 Feb 2013.
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