Akademgorodok

Akademgorodok (Russian: ??????????????) (pop. 100,000 est.), 20 km south of Novosibirsk, Russia is the educational and scientific centre of Siberia. It is located in the center of a majestic birch and pine forest and on the shore of the Ob Sea, a man-made reservoir on the great Siberian river Ob. Located within Akademgorodok is Novosibirsk State University (NSU), 35 research institutes, an agricultural academy, medical academy, apartment houses and cottages, 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 fine concert hall. The performances given by musical celebrities and theatrical stars in this hall are second to none.

List of research and education facilities in Akademgorodok

• Kutateladze Institute of Thermal Physics
• Institute of Inorganic Chemistry
• United Institute of Catalysis
• Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry
• Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
• Institute Informational Systems
• Institute of Informatics and Mathematical Geophysics
• Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry
• Institute of Cytology and Genetics
• Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
• United Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy
• United Institute of Automation and Electrometry
• United Institute of Semiconductor Physics
• Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
• Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion
• United Institute of Hydrodynamics
• United Institute of History
• Philology and Philosophy
• Institute of Laser Physics
• Central Siberian Botanical Garden
• Institute of Solid State Chemistry and Mechanochemistry
• Research Institute of Circulation Pathology
• Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering
• Presdium of the Sibirian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
• Scientists' House
• Novosibirsk State University Novosibirsk State University
• Physical-Mathematical School
• Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography
• Central Siberian Geological Museum