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Introduction

St. Nicolas Chapel - the symbol of Novosibirsk

St. Nicolas Chapel - the symbol of Novosibirsk

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Novosibirsk is the third largest city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is also the youngest city to exceed the population of a million citizens, being founded in 1893. Novosibirsk is an ideal place for traveling in Siberia because of its tourist-aimed infrastructure and a developed transportation system.

Today Novosibirsk is the business-center of Siberia. It explains its business-tourism orientation as well as the abundance of exhibition pavilions and an extensively developed publicity market. [1]

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Sights and Activities

One of the central streets of Novosibirsk

One of the central streets of Novosibirsk

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  • A Centre of Industry - There were launched many factories in the Novosibirsk region under the Soviets despite the lack of precious mineral resources. Even more of the factories were transported back home from the battlefields of WWII. Some of them are closed now, with the majority working half as efficiently as they could, but others keep on developing.
  • The cultural center of Siberia - with some restrictions, though. Traditionally, theater has been the best-developed kind of cultural distraction here, but the city is large enough to provide many other ways of spending an evening or a weekend.

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Weather

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Avg Max-12.2 °C-10.3 °C-2.6 °C8.1 °C17.5 °C24 °C25.7 °C22.2 °C16.6 °C6.8 °C-2.9 °C-8.9 °C
Avg Min-20.1 °C-19.1 °C-11.8 °C-1.7 °C5.6 °C12.3 °C14.7 °C11.7 °C6.4 °C0 °C-9.1 °C-16.4 °C
Rainfall20 mm13 mm13 mm24 mm36 mm39 mm64 mm67 mm35 mm37 mm29 mm20 mm
Rain Days655687898986

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Getting There

Novosibirsk is a major transportation junction. Here, waterways lying through the River Ob join airways ending in Tolmachevo airport and two small local airports. Intercity highways meet railways, Novosibirsk having been initially built to serve as an important railroad junction of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Despite all this, the city’s road infrastructure is currently being reconstructed due to its inability to cope with the growing traffic load.

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Sleep

Budget

PropertyAddressTypePopularity
Novosibirsk ApartmentIppodromskaya, 21 - 41Hostel90
Siberian Navigation2, Obskaya str 73 Borovoye Village,Guesthouse-
Dostoevsky HostelInskaya st., 56 - 8Hostel88
Morozovkie BaniVibornay Street 59Hotel-
Central HostelOrdzhonikidze street 33, flat 4Hostel-
Zokol HostelShchetinkina st. 34HOSTEL95
MetroHostelTrudovaya 10HOSTEL-

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Learn

Novosibirsk has a scientific and campus life center. Akademgorodok is a major scientific center comprising Novosibirsk State University and dozens of scientific laboratories and institutes. It was founded in 1950 and since then it has managed to become as integral a part of the city as its other areas, though it still bears its own marks of distinction, such as beautiful parks and forests, beaches, safe and quiet streets, many youngsters.

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Keep Connected

Phone

See also International Telephone Calls

Post

Russian Post is the national postal service of Russia. It's English version is currently under construction, but mainly involves the track&trace system. The domestic post is reasonably reliable, and sending international mail is fairly reliable but slow, taking at least a few weeks to European countries, longer to the USA or Australia for example. The delivery of mail sent from abroad to Russia is highly unreliable, and people or companies tend to use foreign adresses, from where a private carrier sends it to Russia. Alternatives like poste restante are non-existent with Russian Post. Most cities and large towns in Russia have a Central Post Office (Glavpochtamt), which also sells stamps and envelopes, and usually has fax services and Internet availability, though the latter mostly not in smaller places. Also, many hotels have postal services, including mail boxes. Post offices tend to keep long hours, usually from 8:00am or 9:00am until 8:00pm or 9:00pm Monday to Friday, and closing earlier during weekends. The main central post offices in the biggest cities keep even longer hours. For sending parcels, you can also try services by DHL Russia and FedEx Russia. For all mail you can use the regular alphabet, though maybe include the country's name in Cyrillic. For sending post to Russia (or trying to receive it) note that addresses should be in reverse order: Russia, postal code, city, street address, name.

Quick Facts

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Population
1,397,000 (2006 est)
Size
500 km²
International area code
+7 383
Timezone
UTC+6 (in winter), UTC+7 (in summer)
Coordinates
  • Latitude: 55.0392304
  • Longitude: 82.9278181

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