Akademgorodok (Академгородо́к) (pop. 100,000 est.), 30 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.

The town, whose name would translate to English as Academic Town, was founded in the 1950s by the USSR Academy of Sciences. Academician Mikhail Alexeyevich Lavrentyev, a prominent physicist and mathematician, the first Chairman of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Science, played a prominent role at establishing Akademgorodok. At its peak, Akademgorodok was home of 65,000 scientists and their families, and was a privileged area to live in, with well-stocked stores and dachas.

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,
• United 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 Gardens,
• 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.

See also

• ZATO