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Novosibirsk (Russian ????????????, pop. 1,425,600), is Russia's third largest city, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, is located in the southwest of Siberian Federal District, at {{coor dm|55|01|N|82|56|E|}}. It was founded in 1893 as the future site of the Trans-Siberian railway bridge crossing the great Siberian river Ob. Its importance further increased early in the 20th century with the completion of the Turkestan-Siberia Railway connecting Novosibirsk to Central Asia and the Caspian Sea.

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