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15 unusual facts about Novosibirsk


Alexey Ivanovich Borozdin

He graduated from the Kursk Music College in 1957, then studied in the L'vov Music School until 1961, when he dropped out for a teaching career and did not complete his formal music education until 1976, when he graduated from the Novosibirsk Music School.

Andy Croft

Writing Residencies include the Hartlepool Headland, the Great North Run, the Southwell Poetry Festival, the Combe Down Stone Mines Project, HMP Holme House and HMP South Yorkshire.He has given many poetry readings, including readings in Paris, Moscow, Potsdam, Sofia, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, New York and London's Poetry International.

Galina Gorchakova

She moved to Novosibirsk in Siberia with her parents who were singers at the opera house there.

Hungary national bandy team

Hungary national bandy team made its international debut in the 1990 Rossijatournament in Novosibirsk, Soviet Union.

Maria Guerassimenko

Maria Guerassimenko (born March 20, 1981 in Novosibirsk, Russian SFSR) is a pair skater who competed internationally for Slovakia.

Pavel Podkolzin

Podkolzin made his debut with Lokomotiv Novosibirsk, in the Russian second division, during the 2001–02 season.

Revolt of Czechoslovak Legion

Czechoslovaks began to occupy the cities on their route: Chelyabinsk, Petropavlovsk, Kurgan, Novonikolaevsk, Mariinsk, Nizhneudinsk and Kansk.

Sovtek

In the 1990s Sovtek also manufactured tube amplifiers at factories in St. Petersburg, Saratov, and Novosibirsk.

Supercomputing and Visualization Center of Madrid

For example, it collaborates in the retransmission of a Solar eclipse from Novosibirsk, Russia.

Victor Sokovnin

He organized concerts in Omsk Brass (leader-V. J. Verzhahovsky, later Professor of the Novosibirsk Conservatory) and symphony orchestras in the clubs of Omsk.

Vitaliy Sidorov

Vitaliy started to play football from childhood in his home town with his local club FC Sibir where he showed considerable promise.

His professional career began with FC Sibir in 2005 when he signed a professional contract with the club.

Vladimir Antyufeyev

Vladimir Antyufeyev (Cyrillic: Владимир Антюфéев), also known under the assumed name Vladimir Shevtsov (born 19 February 1951 in Novosibirsk, Russia) was the head of the Ministry of State Security of unrecognized Transnistria (September 8, 1992 - January 17, 2012).

Yurii Sh. Matros

After four years of research at this university, while simultaneously working at the Novosibirsk chemical plant, he received his PhD degree in 1964.

Zerich

The Company has a wide range of agency outlets countrywide (more than 30 towns of Russia including major financial centers: St.Petersburg, Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhni Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Kazan, Tyumen, Yaroslavl etc.).


Alexey Ivanovich Borozdin

In 1960s-80s he also played in the Academia orchestra in Akademgorodok, a science campus-town near the city of Novosibirsk, USSR.

Anatoly Maltsev

Anatoly Ivanovich Maltsev (Malcev) (Russian: Анато́лий Ива́нович Ма́льцев 27 November N.S./14 November O.S. 1909 - 7 June 1967) was born in Misheronsky, near Moscow, and died in Novosibirsk, USSR.

Baltika Breweries

Today, Baltika is the largest Fast-moving consumer goods producer in Russia and has production facilities in 10 Russian cities (Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Tula, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Samara, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Khabarovsk).

Boris Volynov

The next year he completed basic pilot training in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, and in 1955 graduated from an aviation school in Novosibirsk.

Buka Entertainment

Buka Entertainment (Russian: Бука) is a Russian software development and distribution company founded in 1993 in Moscow with an additional six branch offices across Russia, located in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Samara and Nizhniy Novgorod.

Coal-water slurry fuel

CWS produced by milling the sludge and/or regular coal near the coal mine near Belovo (Siberia, Russia) was transported through the pipeline to Novosibirsk (Siberia, Russia), a distance of 262 km.

Expedition Trophy

The race follows the route Murmansk - St. Petersburg - Moscow - Yekaterinburg - Novosibirsk - Krasnoyarsk - Irkutsk - Khabarovsk - Vladivostok, with teams being eliminated at the end of each stage, and the total journey taking 13 days.

Igor Polyanski

Igor Polyansky, born 1967, Russian swimmer from Novosibirsk, now living in New Zealand

Jaak Aaviksoo

From 1981 to 1994 Aaviksoo worked in many foreign institutes as a guest professor, namely the Novosibirsk Institute of Thermal Physics, the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Osaka University and University of Paris VII: Denis Diderot.

Kalinov Most

The band was formed in 1984 by vocalist and song-writer Dmitry Revyakin in Novosibirsk, Siberia, USSR.

Koltsovo

Koltsovo, Novosibirsk Oblast, an urban-type settlement in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia

Lezhnevsky

Lezhnevsky (rural locality), a former rural locality (a settlement) in Chulymsky District of Novosibirsk Oblast; abolished in November 2009

National Cable Networks

The first step was the acquisition of companies "Infokos +" and "Eltelekor" in the Moscow region and "NovAKTV" in Novosibirsk, the company subsequently entered the markets of Kurgan and Yekaterinburg.

Novosibirsk State Technical University

The university has an academic choir, the winner of various competitions, including an international competition in Prague (1990), an ensemble of violinists widely known in Novosibirsk and a jazz orchestra, the laureate of big number of competitions and festivals, including the European Music Festival for Young People in Neerpelt.

Peter June Simon

In his first stint with the tricolors, PJ Simon scored 14 points to backup Reynel Hugnatan as the MBA All-Stars opened its 25th William Jones Cup campaign on a high note, tripping the much taller Russian club Lokomotive Novosibirsk, 78-68, at the Taipei Physical Education College Gym.

Ruvim Frayerman

Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, whom Frayerman met in Novosibirsk, invited him to the newly formed Sibirskiye Ogni (Lights of Siberia) magazine, where his first short novel Ognyovka was published in 1924, followed by Na Mysu (At the Cape, 1925), Sobolya (Sables, 1926) and a large poem Na Rassvete (At the Dawn, 1926).

Sojuzpatent

Sojuzpatent has offices in Moscow, Astrakhan, Vologda, Kirov, Kostroma, and Novosibirsk; it is the headquarters of the national group of the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) since its foundation in 1965.

Sonia Amelio

Amelio developed castanet arrangements to accompany works of such composers as Chopin and Liszt, and performed them as a guest artist with orchestras in several countries, including the city symphonies of Novosibirsk, Russia and Reutlingen, Germany.

Strategic Command WWII Pacific Theater

The main campaign lasts from attack on Pearl Harbor until 1947, and takes place on a map stretching from Novosibirsk and Bangalore in the west to California in the east, and from Bering Strait in the North to the southern coast of New Zealand in the south.

Tsukuba, Ibaraki

The city was closely modeled on other planned cities and science developments, including Brasilia, Novosibirsk's Akademgorodok, Bethesda, and Palo Alto.

Viktor Markin

After graduating from a secondary school he went to Novosibirsk, where he entered the Faculty of Pediatrics of the Institute of Medicine.

Yakovlev Yak-7

The GKO and the NKAP issued decrees in August 1941 for the Yak-7 to be produced by Factories N°301 and N°153, but the Factory 301 had to be evacuated to Novosibirsk where it merged with N° 153.

Yemelyan Yaroslavsky

On September 15, 1921, Yaroslavsky was the prosecutor at the trial in Novonikolaevsk, now Novosibirsk, of the counter-revolutionary Lieutenant General Roman von Ungern-Sternberg.

Yuri Sergeevich Lavrov

During the Second World War Yuri Lavrov and his family was evacuated with the theatre to Kirov, then to Novosibirsk in Siberia.