Akademgorodok
Akademgorodok
(äkädāmgô`rôdôk), city, W central Siberian Russia, near NovosibirskNovosibirsk, city (1989 pop. 1,437,000), capital of Novosibirsk region and the administrative center of the Siberian federal district, S Siberian Russia, on the Ob River and the Trans-Siberian RR.
..... Click the link for more information. . A scientific center begun in 1959, it is the site of 20 institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.