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Akademgorodok (äkädāmgô`rôdôk), city, W central Siberian Russia, near Novosibirsk Novosibirsk (nô'vəsĭbērsk`), city (1989 pop. ..... 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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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