Timeline of Omsk

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Omsk, Russia.

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Prior to 20th century

• 1716 - Omsk fortress established.[1]
• 1792 - The Lutheran Church of the Holy Catherine built.
• 1804 - Town chartered.[2]
• 1808 - Siberian Cossack Army headquartered in Omsk.[3]
• 1813 - Cossack school founded.[4]
• 1823 - Fire.[4][5]
• 1827 - Agricultural research institute established.[2]
• 1839 - Capital of western Siberia relocated to Omsk from Tobolsk.[6]
• 1843 - St. Nicholas Cossack Cathedral built.
• 1876 - Omsk Drama Theatre established.[7]
• 1877 - Russian Geographical Society's west Siberian branch established.[3]
• 1878 - Omsk History Museum founded.[8]
• 1881 - Population: 31,000.[6]
• 1887 - Population: 33,847.[9]
• 1895 - Trans-Siberian Railway begins operating.[10]
• 1897 - Population: 37,470.
• 1898 - Assumption Cathedral consecrated.
• 1900 - Population: 53,050.[6]

20th century

• 1913 - Population: 135,800.[11]
• 1918 - November: Provisional All-Russian Government headquartered in Omsk.[12]
• 1919
  • 14 November: Red Army takes city.[3]
  • Union of Chinese Workers formed.[13]
• 1927 - Agricultural Institute's Botanical Garden established.[14]
• 1929 - Omsk Tsentralny Airport begins operating.
• 1933 - Kirov District, Omsk established.
• 1934 - City becomes part of the Omsk Oblast.[1]
• 1935 - Assumption Cathedral demolished; Pioneer's Square laid out.[15]
• 1937 - Omsk Children's Theatre founded.
• 1939 - Population: 280,716.[2]
• 1946 - Football Club Irtysh Omsk formed.
• 1950 - Spartak Omsk ice hockey team formed.
• 1955 - Oil refinery begins operating in vicinity.[16]
• 1965 - Population: 721,000.[17]
• 1966 - Red Star Stadium (Omsk) opens.
• 1973 - Omsk State Circus founded.
• 1974 - Omsk State University established.[18]
• 1983 - Literature museum founded.[8]
• 1985 - Population: 1,108,000.[19]
• 1986 - Blinov Sports and Concerts Complex opens.
• 1989 - Population: 1,148,418.
• 1990 - Siberian International Marathon begins.[20]
• 1991
  • Omsk City Art Museum founded.[8]
  • Leonid Polezhayev becomes governor of Omsk Oblast.[1][21]
  • Yuri Shoikhet becomes mayor.[22]
• 1992 - Omsk Metro construction begins.
• 1993 - Omsk State Pedagogical University active.[23]
• 1994 - Valerii Roshchupkin becomes mayor.[21][24]
• 2000 - City becomes part of the Siberian Federal District.

21st century

• 2001 - Evgeniy Belov (Russian politician) becomes mayor.
• 2005 - Viktor Shreider becomes mayor.[1]
• 2007
  • Arena Omsk opens.
  • Assumption Cathedral reconstructed.
• 2010 - Population: 1,153,971.[1]
• 2012 - Vyacheslav Dvorakovsky becomes mayor.

See also

• Omsk history
• History of Omsk
• Timelines of other cities in the Siberian Federal District of Russia: Novosibirsk

References

1. "Omsk Oblast". Territories of the Russian Federation. Europa Territories of the World (13th ed.). Routledge. 2012. p. 279. ISBN 978-1-85743-646-4.
2. Leon E. Seltzer, ed. (1952), "Omsk", Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, New York: Columbia University Press, p. 1381, OL 6112221M
3. Igor V. Naumov (2006). History of Siberia. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-20703-9.
4. Henry Lansdell (1885). Russian Central Asia. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Co.
5. Albert J. Schmidt (1970). "William Hastie, Scottish Planner of Russian Cities". Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. 114.
6. Britannica 1910.
7. Ron Rubin, ed. (1994). "Russia". World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre. Routledge. p. 704+. ISBN 978-1-136-11804-3.
8. "Russianmuseums.info". Russian Cultural Heritage Network. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
9. "Russia: Principal Towns". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890.
10. Ministry of Ways of Communication 1900.
11. "Russia: Principal Towns: Central Asia". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
12. N. G. O. Pereira (1988). "Regional Consciousness in Siberia before and after October 1917". Canadian Slavonic Papers. 30 (1): 112–133. doi:10.1080/00085006.1988.11091880. JSTOR 40868862.
13. Vladimir Boyko (2001). "Chinese Communities in Western Siberia in the 1920s—1930s". Inner Asia. 3 (1): 19–26. JSTOR 23615445.
14. "Garden Search: Russian Federation". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
15. Anthony Haywood (2012). Siberia: A Cultural History. Andrews UK Limited. ISBN 978-1-908493-37-8.
16. Matthew J. Sagers (1984). Refinery Throughput in the U.S.S.R. U.S. Department of Commerce – via Google Books.
17. "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1965. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations. 1966.
18. Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003. Europa Publications. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85743-137-7.
19. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1987). "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York. pp. 247–289.
20. "History". City of Omsk. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
21. Melvin 1998.
22. Peter J. Stavrakis; et al., eds. (1997). Beyond the Monolith: The Emergence of Regionalism in Post-Soviet Russia. Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-5617-4.
23. Walter Rüegg, ed. (2011). "Universities founded in Europe between 1945 and 1995". Universities Since 1945. History of the University in Europe. 4. Cambridge University Press. p. 575+. ISBN 978-1-139-49425-0.
24. Robert W. Orttung, ed. (2000). Republics and Regions of the Russian Federation: A Guide to Politics, Policies, and Leaders. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 978-0-7656-0559-7.

This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

• "West Siberian Railway: Omsk". Guide to the Great Siberian Railway. St. Petersburg: Ministry of Ways of Communication. 1900.
• "Omsk", Chambers's Encyclopaedia, London: W. & R. Chambers, 1901 – via HathiTrust
• "Omsk", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
• William Henry Beable (1919), "Omsk", Russian Gazetteer and Guide, London: Russian Outlook
• Neil J. Melvin (1998). "Consolidation of a New Regional Elite: The Case of Omsk 1987-1995". Europe-Asia Studies. 50 (4): 619–650. doi:10.1080/09668139808412557. JSTOR 153780.

External links

• "История: Лента событий" [History: Timeline of Events] (in Russian). City of Omsk.