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Akademgorodok

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Akademgorodok (äkädāmgô`rôdôk), city, W central Siberian Russia, near Novosibirsk Novosibirsk (nô'vəsĭbērsk`), city (1989 pop.
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. A scientific center begun in 1959, it is the site of 20 institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.


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Begun in 1957 as part of the Sputnik-era scientific boom, Akademgorodok eventually acquired international renown as an idyllic community devoted to the life of the mind.
In Russia, Nuranen's charges will be students in the School for Creative Development and Free Choice in Akademgorodok, or Academy City, just outside Siberia's largest city.
Paul Josephson provides a history of Akademgorodok, the "Soviet New Atlantis," a utopian science city where Siberian scientists tried to live free from the faceless bureaucrats in Moscow but ultimately succumbed to their control.
 
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