This is a satellite town, some 20 km to the south from the centre of Novosibirsk, amid enchanting woodland close to the Ob Sea. Accessible by local train or minibus from the city, too.
Set up in Soviet times by one of Russia’s greatest minds, mathematician Mikhail Lavrentyev, it allowed the young forward-thinking scientists who moved East from Moscow and St Petersburg a pleasant lifestyle, enabling them to work successfully.
It is home to 32 institutes and researching centres, the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Novosibirsk State University.
Elders in Altai Mountains vote to reinter mummy of ancient woman 'to stop her anger which causes floods and earthquakes'.
The quake could be a world record for a tremor caused with involvement by humans, it is claimed.
Local reindeer herder witnessed the tundra explosion that led to birth of new hole in river.
Dozens of major tremors recorded this year as scientists monitor 'unusually strong seismic activity' that will one day tear continent in half.
Famed for the purest water on the planet, but this 'is no longer true' with 'no drinking' warning in southern part of lake.
More craters expected to form due to such eruptions as permafrost melts - and they ARE caused by global warming releasing methane gas.
A study suggests cannabis, magic mushrooms and ecstatic dancing was used as ancient anaesthetic.