Timeline of Novosibirsk

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• 1893 – Novonikolayevsk settlement developed on former village site during building of Trans Siberian Railway.[1][2]
• 1895 – Resettlement Center was established.
• 1897 – Bridge built over Ob River.
• 1899 – Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built.
• 1900 – Typography of N. P. Litvinov opens.[3]

• 1904
  • Novonikolayevsk became town.
  • Infectious Diseases Hospital edtablished.
• 1906 – First bank opens.
• 1909 – Novonikolayevsk Fire.
• 1913
  • Population: 62,967.[4]
  • Construction of the Military Town was completed.
• 1915 – Chapel of St. Nicholas built.[5]
• 1916 – Sugar Riot
• 1917 – December: Soviets in power.[6]
• 1921 – City becomes seat of the Novonikolayevsk Governorate.
• 1922 – Monument to the Heroes of the Revolution unveiled.
• 1925
  • Central Park, Novosibirsk established.
  • Lenin Building constructed on Krasny Prospekt.[7]
  • City becomes capital of the Siberian Krai.[8]
• 1926
  • City renamed "Novosibirsk."[6]
  • Population: 120,128.[8]
  • Novosibirsk Research Hygiene Institute founded.
  • Sibkraisoyuz, Sibrevcom and Textilsindikat buildings were constructed.
  • June 21 – A major fire in the center of Novosibirsk.
  • November 7 – Sibrevcomovsky Bridge was opened.
• 1927
  • Spartak Stadium opens.
  • Statue of Lenin unveiled on Barnaul Street.[7]
  • July – Construction of a water transportation and sewage system began in the city
• 1929 – Sibselmash established.
• 1930
  • City becomes capital of the West Siberian Krai.[8]
  • Zaobsky District was formed.
• 1931 – Komsomolsky Railway Bridge built.
• 1932
  • National Bank building constructed.[7]
  • Siberian State Transport University opens.
• 1933
  • Dzerzhinsky District was established.
  • Novosibirsk Regional Puppet Theatre founded.
• 1934 – Novosibirsk tram begins operating.
• 1935 – Marketplace area officially named Stalin Square, Novosibirsk[7]
• 1936 – Football Club Sibir Novosibirsk formed.
• 1937
  • City becomes part of Novosibirsk Oblast.[1]
  • Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Society founded.
• 1939
  • Novosibirsk military infantry school established.
  • Population: 405,589.[8]
• 1940 – Zayeltsovsky District was formed.
• 1941
  • Chaplygin Siberian Scientific Research Institute Of Aviation founded.
  • Elektrosignal Plant established.
  • NIIIP evacuated to Novosibirsk.
• 1942 – Novosibirsk Thermal Power Plant 3 started operating.
• 1943
  • Novosibirsk TB Research Institute established.
  • Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals founded.
  • Institute of Mining opens.
  • Novosibirsk Electromechanical College established.[9]
• 1944 – Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Metrology established.
• 1945 – Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre building opens.
• 1946
  • Central Siberian Botanic Garden established.[10]
  • Novosibirsk Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics was created.
• 1947 – Novosibirsk Zoo founded.[11]
• 1950 – Novosibirsk State Technical University established.
• 1952
  • Novosibirsk Planetarium opens in Central Park.
  • Kleschihinskoe cemetery established.
• 1953 – NPO ELSIB founded.
• 1955 – Kommunalny Bridge built.[12]
• 1956
  • Novosibirsk Conservatory established.
  • Novosibirsk State Choreographic School was created.
• 1957
  • Palace of Culture named after M. Gorky and House of Culture named after A. Popov were built.[13][14]
  • Vecherniy Novosibirsk established.
  • Novosibirsk trolley begins operating.
  • Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences established.
  • Novosibirsk Reservoir created near city.
• 1958
  • Sovetsky District was formed.
  • Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production established.[15]
  • Institute of Organic Chemistry was founded.
• 1959
  • Novosibirsk Capacitor Plant was commissioned.[16]
  • Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics was founded.
  • Novosibirsk State University established.[17]
  • Novosibirsk Theatre of Musical Comedy established in Central Park.[18]
  • Population: 885,045.
  • Development of science town Akademgorodok begins near city.[12]
  • Fox domestication experiment.
  • July 28 – Future US President Richard Nixon visited Novosibirsk.[19]

• 1960 – Novosibirsk State Theater Institute founded.
• 1962
  • Algebra i Logika founded.
  • HC Sibir Novosibirsk founded.
• 1964
  • Ice Sports Palace Sibir opens.
  • Institute of Semiconductor Physics established.
  • Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics established
• 1965 – Population: 1,029,000.[20]
• 1966
  • Siberian Mathematical Journal established.
  • Institute of Applied Physics founded.
  • Institute of Archeology and Ethnography formed.
• 1967
  • Novosibirsk Military Command Academy established.[21]
  • State Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine established.
• 1968 – Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry founded.
• 1970 – Statue of Lenin, Novosibirsk unveiled in Lenin Square, Novosibirsk.
• 1977 – Novosibirsk Thermal Power Plant 5 started operating.
• 1978 – Dimitrovsky Bridge built.
• 1980 – Part of the Dzerzhinsky District became the Kalininsky District.[22]
• 1981 – Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics active.[17]
• 1982 – ND experiment.
• 1984 – Novosibirsk Globus Theatre built.
• 1985 – Population: 1,393,000.[23]
• 1986
  • Novosibirsk Metro begins operating.
  • Metro Bridge opens.[12]
  • Institute of Informatics and Computer Science established.[24]
• 1987
  • Ploshchad Garina-Mikhaylovskogo Metro Station opens.
  • Sibirskaya Metro Station built.
• 1988 – SoftLab-NSK established.
• 1989 – Siberian Serpentarium established.
• 1990
  • Institute of Computational Technologies founded.
  • Institute of Informatics Systems established.
• 1991
  • Center of Financial Technologies established.
  • Ploshchad Marksa Metro Station built.
  • Siberian Stock Exchange established.[25]
  • Novosibirsk State Agrarian University active.[17]
  • Scientific Institute of clinical and experimental lymphology established.
  • Vitaly Mukha becomes governor of Novosibirsk Oblast.[6]
• 1992
  • Novosibirsk State Technical University active.[17]
  • Biathlon World Championships 1992
  • Gagarinskaya Metro Station opens.
  • Zayeltsovskaya Metro Station built.
• 1995 – SND Experiment.
• 1996 – Sibir-Hokkaido founded.
• 1997
  • Transfiguration Cathedral built.
  • Hillary Clinton's visit to Novosibirsk.[26]
• 1998 – Sibers established.
• 1999
  • Alawar established.
  • 2GIS founded.
  • Viktor Tolokonsky becomes governor of Novosibirsk Oblast.[27]
• 2000
  • Sib-Altera theatre festival begins.[28]
  • Vladimir Gorodetsky becomes mayor.
  • City becomes part of the Siberian Federal District.
  • Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk established.
  • 17 November – Putin's first visit to the city.[29]
  • 28 December – Marshala Pokryshkina Metro Station opens.

• 2001 – The murder of the vice mayor of Novosibirsk Igor Belyakov.[30]
• 2002 – Roman Catholic Diocese of Transfiguration at Novosibirsk active.[31]
• 2003 – Novosibirsk Crematorium was opened.
• 2004 – The murder of the vice mayor of Novosibirsk Valery Mariasov.[32]
• 2005
  • Beryozovaya Roshcha Metro Station built.
  • Small West Siberian Railway opens.
• 2007 – Nicolas Roerich Museum founded.
• 2008 – Novosibirsk was in the center of the path of a solar eclipse.
• 2009 – Goethe-Institut opens in Novosibirsk.
• 2010
  • Population: 1,473,754.
  • Zolotaya Niva Metro Station opens.
• 2011 – Aura Mall was opened.
• 2012
  • 31 January – Novosibirsk Expocentre opens.[33]
  • 8 February – opening of the second planetarium of the city.[34]
• 2014
  • Bugrinsky Bridge opens.
  • Anatoly Lokot becomes mayor.
• 2015 – Pingvin Curling Club opens.[35]
• 2016
  • Novosibirsk Dolphinarium opens.[36]
  • Akvamir Waterpark built.[37]
  • Chistaya Sloboda Mikrodistrict and Marx Square were connected by a tram line.[38]
• 2018
  • The reconstruction of the Mikhailovskaya Embankment was completed.[39]
  • School No. 214 named after Elizaveta Glinka opens.[40]
• 2020 – Russian Wheelchair Curling Championship.
• 2021
  • 23 January – Alexei Navalny protests, more than 90 people detained by the Novosibirsk police.[41]
  • 31 January – Alexey Navalny protests, Novosibirsk police detained over 100 people.[42][43]

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