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Akademgorodok, however, is a happy exception to this Russian tradition of the relationship between the center and a far away place.
Akademgorodok is 40 kilometers south of Novosibirsk, an industrial center on the Trans-Siberian railroad, with a modern airport nearby.
Akademgorodok was to become the "brain" of Siberia, a huge expanse of land usually associated with poorly developed space, immense natural wealth, and a harsh climate.
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 Akademgorodok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Akademgorodok (Russian: Академгородо́к), is a part of the russian city Novosibirsk, located 20 km south of the city center.
Located within Akademgorodok is Novosibirsk State University (NSU), 35 research institutes, an agricultural academy, medical academy, apartment buildings and houses, and a variety of community amenities including stores, hotels, hospitals, restaurants and cafes, cinemas, clubs and libraries.
At its peak, Akademgorodok was home to 65,000 scientists and their families, and was a privileged area to live in.
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 Akademgorodok Internet Project
Akademgorodok is also the location of the Novosibirsk State University.
Akademgorodok has a long tradition of cooperation with other centers of science and education, both in Russia and abroad.
In future it can be used for the extension of the "Akademgorodok Internet", taking into account the interests of different scientific centers within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Buryat, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Tyumen and Yakutya) as well as scientific organizations in the cities of the Siberian region.
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Akademgorodok is uniquely located right in the center of a majestic birch and pine forest on the shores of Ob Sea, a man-made reservoir on the great Siberian river Ob.
Akademgorodok is the smallest district of Novosibirsk and it is too young to have any historical monuments.
Akademgorodok is home to nearly 40 research institutes and academies, among which are the Nuclear Physics Institute, the Organic and Inorganic Chemistry Institute, the Genetics Institute, the Institute of Philosophy and History and many others.
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 CNN - First lady talks democracy with Siberian family - November 16, 1997
AKADEMGORODOK, Russia (CNN) -- On Sunday in Siberia, U.S. first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton showed up for tea at the home of the Alexandrov family to find out firsthand what life is like in the post-Soviet Russian frontier.
Vladimir, the grandfather, works at the Institute of Mathematics in the town of Akademgorodok, or "Academic Township," a suburb of Novosibirsk.
Akademgorodok is a young town, and so are its people.
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 Akademgorodok - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
AKADEMGORODOK [Akademgorodok], city, W central Siberian Russia, near Novosibirsk.
Gregory Dymshits, a full-time research biologist, teaches a genetics lesson at a special school for advanced science and math students in Akademgorodok, Siberia.
A crumbling bus stop on the road from Novosibirsk to Akademgorodok in Siberia, Russia.
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 BBC NEWS | Programmes | Crossing Continents | Europe | Science in a cold climate
Scientists' salaries in Akademgorodok are late and even when they do get paid, world-class brains can expect on average a thousand dollars a year, about 650 pounds.
At the House of Scientists, a social centre in Akademgorodok, a doctor of chemistry remarked glumly that what he did was now a hobby, not a profession.
In Akademgorodok, as elsewhere in Russia, science is having to undergo a revolution.
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Inside Akademgorodok there are several Stables offering coaching and horse-back riding to university students.
Akademgorodok is open to the whole world - and is interesting to the world.
Akademgorodok will always be wise, kind and warm home with windows on the forest.
www.nsu.ru /english/campus/sport.xml   (474 words)

  
 Novosibirsk and Akademgorodok   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
This led to the construction of Akademgorodok (the Academic City)..
ocated within Akademgorodok is Novsibirsk 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 special qualities of the University are: exceptional student/ professor ratio, close links to the many research institutes of Akademgorodok and an active and constructive social life facilitated by many clubs, organizations and activities.
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 Josephson, P.R.: New Atlantis Revisited: Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science.
In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific utopian community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Khrushchev's full support.
He reveals that persistent ideological interference by the Communist Party, financial uncertainties, and pressures to do big science endemic in the USSR contributed to the failure of Akademgorodok to live up to its promise.
Akademgorodok is still an important research center, having exposed physics, biology, sociology, economics, and computer science to new investigations, distinct in pace and scope from those performed elsewhere in the Soviet scientific establishment.
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 A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems - Andrei Ershov Fourth International Conference - Report   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Akademgorodok (Academic town) is a big research center, 30 km South from Novosibirsk, the largest city of Siberia.
Akademgorodok is located in a picturesque place near the Ob lake.
The first three Andrei Ershov conferences were held in Akademgorodok in May 1991, June 1996, and July 1999, respectively, and proved to be big international events.
www.iis.nsk.su /psi01/report_e.shtml   (1151 words)

  
 National Geographics
After the founding of Akademgorodok, or Academic City, in Siberia in 1958, this institute and several dozen others hummed with the research activity (hat undergirded the military-industrial complex and helped make the U.S.S.R. a superpower.
In the 1990s, following the demise of the Soviet Union, the institute and Akademgorodok became symbols of a different kind—of the decay of Russian science and the decline of a great state.
It is one of many new high-tech companies that have sprung up in Akademgorodok's research institutes, where fledgling enterprises can draw on a large pool of talented physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists and offer their services, relatively cheaply, to the West and Japan.
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 New enterprises lure senior scientists away from the Siberian academy - 07 April 1990 - New Scientist
AKADEMGORODOK, home of the Siberian branch of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, is under threat from the reforms of Mikhail Gorbachov, according to Yuri Tsvetkov, the principal scientific secretary of the branch.
Too many scientists, he says, are being lured away from the academy's research institutes and design bureaus into 'non-traditional' forms of scientific activity, including research cooperatives, implementation centres and joint enterprises.
Ironically, when Akademgorodok was founded in 1957 and the Siberian branch of the academy established there, the new 'academic townlet' was intended to be a centre of...
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 Homepage
But Akademgorodok is the first town of science.
It is one of the few towns in the world build right in the middle of a forest.
Located within Akademgorodok is Novsibirsk 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.
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 USATODAY.com - After years of brain drain, home looks good to Russian scientists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
AKADEMGORODOK, Russia —; Sipping from an outsized cup at a coffee shop, his computer jargon competing with the sounds of U2 and frothing latte, software designer Yuri Bannov could almost be in Silicon Valley.
While he lives in Akademgorodok, a faded former center of Soviet scientific might, Bannov's company does almost all its work for clients in the United States and Europe.
He is part of a new generation that has stemmed the brain drain that sapped the nation of many of its best and brightest following the Soviet collapse.
www.usatoday.com /tech/world/2004-08-10-russian-science_x.htm   (849 words)

  
 New Atlantis Revisited Akademgorodok, the Siberian City of Science   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In 1958 construction began on Akademgorodok, a scientific community modeled after Francis Bacon's vision of a "New Atlantis." The city, carved out of a Siberian forest 2,500 miles east of Moscow, was formed by Soviet scientists with Premieer Krushchev's full support.
The city planners believed that their rational science, liberated from ideological and economic constraints, would help their country surpass the West in all fields.
He reveals that persistent meddling by the Communist Party, financial uncertainties, and pressures to do big science endemic in the USSR contributed to the failure of Akademgorodok to live up to its promise.
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The people who live in Akademgorodok have a lot of imagination, and they loved building this new town.
There are several museums, an English-speaking school, the House of Scientists, where various meetings and conferences are held, and the Botanical Garden.
Student A is a visitor to Akademgorodok, and student B is a guide.
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 Opportunities and Obstacles in U.S.-Russian Economic Relations
It is always a pleasure to speak to students, and I look forward to exchanging views with you on a wide range of issues, including the most provocative ones.
Of course, I am far from the first American to enjoy this honor: cooperation between Akademgorodok and the United States is ongoing; both Novosibirsk State University and the University of St. Thomas benefited from a United States Government-sponsored partnership that brought six American professors to visit your department over the past few years.
As you may have guessed, in my student days there was no such thing as the Internet and contact between the Soviet and American people was very limited.
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 Newsweek.com: World Business: Better Spell It 'Cyberia'
Specifically, in Akademgorodok, a once secret "academic town" started by Nikita Khruschev in 1957 as a defense-industry research center.
For many years, mathematically gifted students from across Russia were brought to the city to study.
Though Malukh said no, Microsoft has hired away so many Akademgorodok programmers that the locals are now annoyed.
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 Russian Chronicles
This began with the founding of Akademgorodok, a scientific research area, in the 1950s.
In the Soviet era, Akademgorodok boasted ample government funding, thousands of world-class scientists, and dozens of esoteric research centers like the "Institute of Automation and Electrometry" and the "Institute of Cytology and Genetics."
There's talk of reviving Akademgorodok and turning it into a kind of "Silicon Taiga." It'll be interesting to see whether any such plans pan out in the coming years.
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 General Information
To reach Akademgorodok, you can use the bus #808 between the airport and Akademgorodok (duration: 1h10; departure every hour).
From Akademgorodok to the Institute of Mathematics The Institute of Mathematics is located about 10 minutes from the hotel.
The hotel is located in the very heart of Akademgorodok, about 10 min walking distance from the Institute of Mathematics.
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 Russia: Putin's China Problem - Newsweek: International Editions - MSNBC.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Siberia is home to a vast and underemployed brain trust of technological and scientific talent, which Beijing is busily buying up.
Take Akademgorodok, a Soviet-era suburb of Novosibirsk, home to 52 scientific institutes and some 18,000 scientists, including half a dozen Nobel Prize winners.
And after years of post-Soviet neglect, the scientists of Siberia are only too happy to fill Chinese orders for everything from wind tunnels and soil analyzers to lasers, DNA labs and electron accelerators.
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 Travel
To reach your destination, your need bus No. 108 (see the schedule below); the bus stop is in front of the airport building.
You arrive to the railway station Novosibirsk Glavnyi, leave the railway station building, and find the stop of either bus No. 622 or microbus No. 15.
These buses will take you quite near to the hotel "Zolotaya Dolina" in Akademgorodok (the last stop).
www.bionet.nsc.ru /bgrs2000/travel.html   (150 words)

  
 Josephson Paul R New Atlantis revisited : Akademgorodok, the Siberian city of science Paul R. Josephson. AIP Niels Bohr ...
Josephson Paul R New Atlantis revisited : Akademgorodok, the Siberian city of science Paul R. Josephson.
Science -- Russia (Federation) -- Akademgorodok (Novosibirsk) -- History.
New Atlantis revisited : Akademgorodok, the Siberian city of science / Paul R. Josephson.
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 96045577   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Publisher description for New Atlantis revisited : Akademgorodok, the Siberian city of science / Paul R. Josephson.
Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog
Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Science Russia (Federation) Akademgorodok (Novosibirsk) History, Russia (Federation) Politics and government
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 Home Page of the Irkutsk Research Centre
The Baikal International Centre for Ecological Research, the International Centre of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, and the International Centre for Active Tectonics and Natural Disasters are successfully running research.
Irkutsk Akademgorodok is a complete self-operating district within the city limits, by the side of the Angara River, which comprises residential and working zones with well-developed logistic and social infrastructure.
The institutes of the Irkutsk Akademgorodok are joined into a local computer network by an optic-fibre cable and have access to Internet through their own communication unit.
www.irkutsk.org /acad/acad_e.htm   (854 words)

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