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The world-famous Novosibirsk Academgorodok dates back to 1957. It appeared thanks to the efforts of Academicians Mikhail Lavrentiev and Sergei Sobolev. Two years later, life was in full swing in the Novosibirsk Academgorodok: houses, institutes and the Novosibirsk State University.
The Novosibirsk club "Under the integral" became the place where the only official concert of Alexander Galich in the USSR took place.
The area quickly gained prestigious status. Firstly, the best conditions for scientists were created here, and secondly, the town was located in a great place. During the design of the Novosibirsk Academgorodok, special attention was paid to preserving the unique nature of this area. No sooner said than done. A large forest area, numerous artificial plantations, proximity to the Ob Sea - all this made Akademgorodok even more attractive for life.
One of the main Russian scientific centers is located 20 km south of the center of Novosibirsk, on the coast of the Ob Sea. Here are located research institutes, Physics and Mathematics School and the Presidium of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Of the attractions - House of Scientists, recreation center "Academy" and the club "Integral". True, the modern Integral is very different from the iconic Soviet cafe Pod Integral. In 1968, the first official bard song festival was held in this cafe. It was a favorite place for poets, artists and artists, a kind of island of free thinking, a symbol of the Khrushchev thaw. Interesting meetings were constantly arranged in the club, lively discussions were going on.
The first and second floors of the cafe were called "Numerator" and "Denominator".
"Under the integral" became the place where the only official concert of Alexander Galich in the USSR took place. Some time later the club closed. After 40 years, it was revived, but at a different address. Of course, the current "Integral" cannot be compared with the Soviet one. Nevertheless, a large-scale bard festival was held in honor of the opening of the renovated institution. The concert was attended by the poet's daughter Alena Galich-Arkhangelskaya as a special guest.
Surely every resident of Novosibirsk has heard about Akademgorodok precisely as a scientific center of our city. University, institutes, scientists, forest, far to get - approximately such associations are caused by this place among those who do not live there. Let's mentally walk along the quiet forest paths, this is still relatively protected area and find out what sights you can see in Akademgorodok.
One of the most prestigious universities in the country is Novosibirsk State University. Next to the educational buildings there is a campus - 12 hostels for students, undergraduates and graduate students. A huge number of young people live here, of which more than half are from other cities.
Despite the fact that studying at the university takes almost all the time, students find time to relax. And it's usually at night. The most popular night club among students is Bunker (Musa Jalil st., 11, transport stop - "DK Yunost"). Outwardly, you will never guess that this is the entrance to the club - that's why he and the Bunker
Quite often, various performers and musical groups come to the Academy with concerts, such as Spleen, Papa Roach, Guano Apes. There are two venues for performances - this is Crystall Hall, which can also work in the format of a nightclub (Musa Jalil St., 14, stop also "DK Yunost"):
Not far from the House of Scientists, at st. Zolotodolinskaya, 11, is the Exhibition Center of the SB RAS. If you are interested in what the mysterious scientists are doing in Akademgorodok, then visiting the Exhibition of Achievements in Exhibition Center, you will learn a lot of unusual and interesting things.
For lovers of interesting archaeological finds, there is good news: in Akademgorodok, you can see the remains of the Shadrin mammoth. It is located in the foyer of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Lavrentiev Ave., 17).
Another place you should definitely go to is the art club of the NII KuDA, which stands for "Research Institute of Culture and Leisure of Academgorodok". It is located at st. Tereshkova, 12a. The interior of this art club is designed as an old scientific institution, with various devices, cones, tools and other joys of a laboratory assistant. Various musical groups also come here with performances - follow the poster at 251. Here 288 you can see how beautiful and unusual inside this institution.
The same building houses the Integral nightclub, ReForma fitness club, People’s bar and Piligrim resto-club. Tereshkova, 12a - a small local "entertainment center" for students.
There are many monuments in such a seemingly small scientific town. For example, not so long ago, at the crossroads of two avenues - Academician Lavrentiev and Academician Koptyug - a photo exhibition dedicated to the history of Akademgorodok was opened. After reading the information and looking at the photos on the stands, you are imbued with the special spirit of Akademgorodok, its simplicity, friendly openness to the world - and at the same time, mystery.
There are few park areas in the Academy, and they are small. But in beauty they are not inferior to large parks in the city center:
Marine Avenue is one of the most beautiful places for a leisurely walk or bike ride in Akadem. Turning left onto Zolotodolinskaya Street, you can go to the Botanical Garden, and going down below to the Berdskoye Highway and further into the forest - to the Central Beach of Academgorodok. On the way, you can relax and have a snack on the summer terrace Cups of coffee or Clover:
There is also a kind of shopping and entertainment center in Academgorodok. That's what it's called - Akademgorodok shopping center. Here you can leave the children to jump on the trampoline while adults go shopping and boutiques inside the shopping center, ride horses, sit in the flyers near the fountain. The building of the shopping center has been preserved since Soviet times, and only now it has begun to be restored and modernized. So you can still capture history
There is also the only cinema in the Academy - DK Academy. The same old building, which will soon be restored (the restoration project is supposed to be: 0)
And, finally, another unique Akademgorodok, which has already been mentioned in our blog - the Museum of the Sun. The only museum in Russia dedicated to the solar theme; and at the time of opening (1993) - the only one in the whole world.
Of course, all this does not negate the fact that the main charm of Akademgorodok is the scientists and the forest. But even if the question “What is interesting to see in Akademgorodok?” asks a person who is far from science, then he may be interested in the Academy just this unusual combination of civilization and forest - a town immersed in greenery, fresh air, silence, and trees, trees, trees ... What do you think?
Akademgorodok is a district of the city of Krasnoyarsk, which is administratively part of the Oktyabrsky district. It has long been divided by local residents into Upper and Lower Akademgorodok. People from all over the city go to Nizhny Akademgorodok, where iconic places are located: Birch Grove, Beautiful Beach, Arboretum of the V.N. Sukachev.
1. The beautification of the territory near the Temple on the Beautiful Shore in Academgorodok is in full swing. A normal asphalted entrance and an equipped area around the temple should appear. This place with a beautiful view should become very visited. 
2. The church on a beautiful shore is located right behind the arboretum of the Forest Institute. A little fauna of the arboretum in the photo. The whistlers have arrived. 
3. If you are careful, you can also notice such residents of the arboretum. The little mouse is crunching something among the autumn foliage. 
4. Squirrels are looking for their summer preparations. 
5. There is a big problem near the Beautiful Beach in Akademgorodok. After the flow of guests who came to take a walk or take pictures at the wedding, there is a lot of garbage that is safely thrown anywhere. A big request to readers - if you are going to take a walk around Akademgorodok, do not leave rubbish behind you, pick it up and throw it in the nearest trash can, or take it to the city in your car. 
6. The first pillar and other rocks. View from Akademgorodok. 
7. Beautiful view of Takmak. 
8. Many people wonder where to take a walk in Academgorodok? The answer is simple, it's Beautiful Beach! That's where I went. For more successful shots, I climbed higher, to the balcony of the candle, Akademgorodok 15i, from where good view towards Udachny and Divnogorsk. 
9. House of Scientists of the Krasnoyarsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences. View from above. 
10. Garages Rodnichok. Next to them is the Monastyrsky spring. 
11. The final stop of routes 2, 83 and 38. Most people get to the final stop of Akademgorodok - "Shop". And you can get to the final stop "House of Scientists", and go straight to the "Beautiful Beach". 
12. A piece of the "Beautiful Shore. To the right you can see the cellars of the inhabitants of Academgorodok. Below is the village of Udachny and our mighty Yenisei. 
13. Larches "burn" with the colors of autumn. 
14. View of Aademgorodok 16, the House of Scientists, and Nikolayevsky Hill. 
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16. The village "Udachny" almost built up with elite real estate. 
17. The Holy Dormition Monastery located in the Udachny post-pilke, on the banks of the Yenisei River. 
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19. At Akademgorodok 13 "a" is located the Military Engineering Institute of the Siberian Federal University. Last year, real tanks settled here! 
20. You can safely come to Akademgorodok with your boys, show military equipment. 
21. Climbing tanks is prohibited. 
22. But you can watch and take pictures! :-) Tanks T-72, T-64 and T-80. 
23. If you walk around the building of the Military Institute of the Siberian Federal University, you can see a few more pieces of equipment. 
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In the literature of the fantasy genre, one and the same image, which has become a cliché, very often comes across: the City of Wizards or the City of Wise Men. Mysterious groves, in which there are nondescript, but obviously magical buildings, winding streets leading nowhere, schoolchildren with eyes burning from comprehended miracles, and the feeling that some Cthulhu is a much more real danger here than a robber with a knife.
Academgorodok is a typical City of Wise Men, and walking around it, you feel as if you have landed on Rock Island from Ursula le Guin's "The Wizard of Earthsea" or NUINA from the Soviet film "Wizards". But fans of "Harry Potter" please do not worry - there is too little pathos in Academgorodok.
The year of birth of Academgorodok is considered to be 1957, when it was decided to create the Siberian Branch Russian Academy Sciences and organize a major center fundamental research in the east of the country. Academician Lavrentiev was elected the first chairman of the SB RAS, who developed the concept of Akademgorodok as a complex association of scientific centers of various profiles. Initially, the SB RAS included 10 institutes, for which Akademgorodok was built, or, officially, the Soviet District of Novosibirsk. The appearance of Akademgorodok turned Novosibirsk into almost the largest (at least standing on a par with Moscow and St. Petersburg) scientific center of Russia.
One list of his research institutes is impressive:
Institute of Thermal Physics. S. S. Kutateladze
Institute of Inorganic Chemistry. A. V. Nikolaeva
Institute of Catalysis G. K. Boreskova
Institute of Organic Chemistry. N. N. Vorozhtsova
Institute of Nuclear Physics. G. I. Budker
Institute of Informatics Systems. A. P. Ershova
Institute of Computational Technologies
Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics
Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine
Institute of Cytology and Genetics
Institute of Mathematics. S. L. Soboleva
Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy im. A. A. Trofimuka
Institute of Automation and Electrometry
Institute of Semiconductor Physics
Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Institute chemical kinetics and burning
Institute of Hydrodynamics. M. A. Lavrentieva
Institute of Archeology and Ethnography
Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production
Institute of Philosophy and Law SB RAS
Institute of History
Institute of Laser Physics
Institute of Chemistry solids and mechanochemistry
Research Institute of Circulatory Pathology named after E. N. Meshalkina
They say that in many of these research institutes there are now branches of Western computer companies - Intel, Microsoft, etc. - for which Akademgorodok is sometimes called "Silicon Taiga" (by analogy with Silicon Valley in California). And in general, the local research institutes do not give the impression of dying - even the humanitarian and non-practical Research Institute of Archeology and Ethnography.
The emblem of the SB RAS is "Sigma", an unofficial symbol of Akademgorodok. From here.
In general, academic campus is not a proper name, and with capital letter without explanation, it is written only in Novosibirsk. Their own Academgorodoks appeared later in Tomsk, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and for some reason in Kyiv. But this academic campus was the prototype of all of them.
The current Akademgorodok is, in fact, a conglomerate of various research institutes and buildings Novosibirsk University with adjacent well-maintained residential areas. When you ride around the city in a minibus, requests to stop sound something like this: “I’m on Nuclear, please!”, “Get me off at Organic!”, “I don’t care about Hydrodynamics!”. In fact full names stops: Institute Nuclear Physics, Institute Organic Chemistry, but it is natural that the brightest parts of the names fall into use. The streets of Akademgorodok are absolutely dominated by intelligent-looking people: NSU students, teachers, scientists, and engineers. And this atmosphere is very atypical for Russia:
-What are we photographing?
-Eee... Yes, I'm checking the lens.
- Don't be afraid, it's better to go into the lobby and take a picture there!
(The dialogue was near the Research Institute of Ethnography, which is not engaged in anything secret, but still revealing).
For a traveler, Akademgorodok is also interesting as an "ideal city" of the Khrushchev era, which has come down to our days in an almost original town-planning form. And the ideal city of those times is a "city in the forest." In Akademgorodok, this idea was brilliantly embodied: this is how it looks from the air:
From here.
Indeed, the city was built right in the forest. Khrushchev's five-story buildings turned out to be ideal houses here, since they are the same height as the trees. When you look along the street, you see only trees along its sides:
Quite a city street on the outskirts of Akademgorodok:
And if you look across, you can see residential buildings behind the trees.
The main street of Akademgorodok is Lavrentiev Avenue, which turns into Morskoy Avenue. In general, the street names here are beautiful and not socialistic - after all, this is part of Novosibirsk, and all Lenin, Kirov, Ordzhonikidze and Oktyabrsky remained in the city.
I suggest taking a short walk along the avenue. This, of course, is not the whole Academgorodok - but a very significant part of it. Let's start from Koptyuga Avenue:
In the background - judging by the abbreviation, Research Institute of Cytology and Genetics.
On the contrary - another research institute, whose name I do not remember, but right on the course - the Institute of Nuclear Physics, the largest in Akademgorodok, and even in the entire RAS in general.
INP is located on Lavrentiev Avenue, at its intersection with Koptyug Avenue. A little further is the administration of the Soviet District, which looks terribly out of place in the City of Wise Men.
Research Institute of Hydrodynamics. Behind it is a turn to the open-air museum, about which separately. The backyard of this research institute is full of impressive mechanisms and containers. The building itself is considered the oldest in Akademgorodok - it was put into operation in 1959.
The former cafe "Pod Integral" (now a bank) is approximately the same as the Leningrad cafe "Saigon", that is, the place where the underground gathered in the 60s. Memorial plaque narrates that Alexander Galich performed here at the Bard-68 festival, and here he incurred disgrace.
The architecture of Akademgorodok is Khrushchev's, simply utterly. But here these buildings are appropriate. Boxes "no frills" surrounded by pine trees and in the general atmosphere here look great. In a way, the minimalist appearance of Akademgorodok is the result of the romanticism of the Khrushchev era. Academician Lavrentiev said:
“We don’t have outstanding buildings, all of them were built according to standard or repeated designs. Appearance we were not particularly worried - we did not rely on unique buildings, but on unique people with unique ideas."
But you can breathe life, beauty and comfort even into Khrushchev. It is nice here:
It remains only to imagine how comfortable it should be here in summer and early autumn.
There are also several buildings of the Brezhnev period: House of Scientists of the SB RAS
House of Culture on Ilyicha Street:
Which leads to the Novosibirsk State University. The student atmosphere of Akademgorodok is also pleasing to the eye and ear. Listening to the conversations, you hear not a mate, but scientific terminology. There are many here and explicit informals.
But perhaps the most interesting (apart from the atmosphere and culture of the City of Wise Men) attraction of Academgorodok is located 4 kilometers from the city, behind the Institute of Hydrodynamics - the Ethnographic Open-Air Museum. It was assumed that archaeological and ethnographic monuments of each historical region of Siberia would be presented here.
Belonging to the Research Institute of Ethnography, the museum has been "in the process of creation" for 30 years, so its visit is only possible with a guided tour. I was not lucky - I ended up at the locked gate. However, even through the gates, we managed to see the main treasure of this museum: the Spaso-Zashiverskaya Church.
Firstly, this is the second oldest wooden church in Siberia, built in 1700 (only the Kazan Church in the Taltsy Museum near Irkutsk is older than it - but this is not a full-fledged temple, but the gate chapel of the prison, cut down in 1675). But even more amazing is the history of this church.
... In 1635, in the lower reaches of the Dog River (as the Indigirka was then called), the Zashiversky prison was founded, which became the main Russian settlement in the Far North-East. About a hundred years later, the prison completely died out from an epidemic of smallpox. According to legend, local residents found a treasure under the ice of Indigirka and took it to the governor. The local shaman warned that the treasure is cursed and must be drowned in the hole. The governor answered something in the spirit of "Yes, I'd rather drown you there!", and distributed the treasure to the inhabitants of the prison. The curse came true, most of the Zashivertsy died, the smaller one left the cursed place. The natives plundered the huts and walls of the prison for firewood, and the church survived, but was forgotten for 200 years. Before the Revolution, only priests from a neighboring parish 300 miles from Zashiversk remembered its existence, who attended church 1-2 times a year and performed services there for foreigners. Only in the 1970s, with the advent of helicopters, did they learn about the church again. And it was decided to move this unique monument of wooden architecture of Siberia closer to the Research Institute of Ethnography.
The church in the photo is a fake, although with the replacement of some logs that have rotted over 200 years of oblivion. Even in the Druzhba Museum near Yakutsk, with its richest open-air exposition, there is only a copy of THIS church.
I personally still find it hard to believe that I saw her.
Other exhibits also photographed through the fence: megaliths from Mountain Siberia
Guard towers of the Yuilsky (Kazymsky) prison from the lower reaches of the Ob:
If you want to be more lucky and be able to see the museum in more detail, touch with your own hands the 300-year-old logs of the Zashiversky Church - keep in mind:
By the way, in Akademgorodok, in the museum of the Research Institute of Ethnography, the legendary Altai Princess is also kept - a perfectly preserved mummy of a young woman of the middle of the 1st millennium BC, found in 1993 on the Ukok plateau.
And not far from here is the Novosibirsk hydroelectric power station and the Ob Sea - a large reservoir. In these parts, Khan Kuchum suffered his last defeat, and among those living in Novosibirsk region Tatar-chats preserved the tradition of making dugout boats ... But this, as they say, is a completely different story.
This concludes my story about Novosibirsk.
Novosibirsk is a city of scientists, one of the centers domestic science. It is impossible not to visit the holy of holies - the Novosibirsk Academgorodok, if you have at least a couple of free days. More than two dozen research institutes, Novosibirsk State University and other scientific and educational institutions work here.
The territory of the town is green and well-groomed, there are many funny and interesting sculptures here ("Archimedes", a shop in the form of a student cheat sheet, a mouse that knits DNA, a monument to the leader of the Novosibirsk group "Ivan Kaif" Mikhail Zuev), buildings that can be safely reckoned to the monuments of modern architecture, as well as the Botanical Garden (www.csbg.nsc.ru) with interesting expositions - "Bonsai in the open ground", "Garden of continuous flowering" with fifty different flowers and others. In addition, there are well-known museums in Akademgorodok - the Historical and Architectural Open-Air Museum with amazing ancient monuments of Siberian wooden architecture, the Sun Museum, the Geological Museum, the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography and others. Those interested in science can attend lectures and meetings at the famous Eureka Science Cafe.
Academgorodok was founded in 1957 in a forested area about 20 kilometers from the center of Novosibirsk. They tried to preserve the forests during construction, so this area is one of the greenest in the city. Fifty years later, the construction of a modern technopark began here, and work is still ongoing.
How to get there: by train to the Seyatel station, by buses No. 7, 8, 23, 39e, 52, 72, 139, minibuses No. 7, 15, 35, 52, 62a, 339, 341.
