Novosibirsk is a city in Russia, administrative center of Novosibirsk region and the Siberian Federal district, a major industrial, transportation, scientific and cultural centre, is located in 3303 kilometers from Moscow.
The city is located at the Priobskoye plateau adjacent to the valley of the river Ob, near the reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk hydroelectric power station.
Novosibirsk is the largest city of Siberia and the largest municipality in Russia. Its population in 2006 is 1 million 397 thousand inhabitants. The largest Novosibirsk belongs to the third place in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg. The city covers an area of about 500,kV. km (50021 ha).
Novosibirsk lies in the continental climate zone; the average annual air temperature is +0.2 C. Characterized by large fluctuations average (38 C) and absolute (88 C) temperatures. The average air temperature in January -18,8 C, in July +25 C. the lowest temperature was recorded on January 7, 1931 -50,2 C, the highest 22 July 1953 +37,2 C. the City is located at the intersection of forest-steppe and steppe natural zones.
The settlement that later became the city of Novosibirsk, was founded in 1893 as the future site of a railway bridge over the Ob river. During its existence it changes its name several times. First, the place where the future city was New village, after she became a New village, which was later named Alexander, in honor of St. Alexander Nevsky, the heavenly patron of Emperor Alexander III. Since 1895, it was renamed the village of Novo-Nikolayevskoye in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the patron Saint of Emperor Nicholas II. And in 1903, the settlement received the status of town. In 1925, the city of Novo-Nikolaevsk (after the October revolution, began to write the Novonikolaevsk) was renamed to Novosibirsk.
The sights of Novosibirsk include the Opera and ballet Theatre, St. Nicholas chapel, Communal bridge, a railway bridge, monument to Marshal Pokryshkin and others
