Akademgorodok is a part of the Sovetsky District of the city of Novosibirsk, Russia, located 30 km (19 mi) south of the city center and about 10 km (6.2 mi) west of Koltsovo. It is the educational and scientific centre of Siberia.
Mikhail Alekseyevich Lavrentyev was a Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist.
The Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics is a multi-disciplinary research center located in Moscow, Russia. ITEP carries out research in the fields of theoretical and mathematical physics, astrophysics, high energy particle physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics, solid state physics, nanotechnology, reactor and accelerator physics, medical physics, and computer science. ITEP also maintains an extensive educational program and organizes physics schools for scholars and undergraduates. The institute is located near the corner of the Sevastopol prospect and the Nachimowski prospect and occupies part of the former estate "Cheryomushki-Znamenskoye" – an 18th-century manor that is a monument of architecture and landscape art of the 18th–19th centuries.
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, is a public research university located in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It prepares specialists in theoretical and applied physics, applied mathematics and related disciplines.
Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov was a Soviet/Russian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and mountaineer.
Yuri Borisovich Rumer was a Soviet theoretical physicist, who mostly worked in the fields of quantum mechanics and quantum optics. Known in the West as Georg Rumer, he was a close friend of Lev Landau, and was arrested with him during the Great Purge in 1938.
National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) is a technical university in Russia. TPU was a member of 12 international associations, including the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research (CESAER) until it was suspended in March 2022, and the European University Association (EUA) until it was suspended in March 2022. TPU was included in Project 5-100, a 2013 state program aimed at bringing at least five Russian universities from among the project participants into the 100 best universities in the world.
Silicon Taiga is a nickname for Akademgorodok, a Russian research and development center that is located near Novosibirsk. The nickname is a reference to the Silicon Valley, a renowned IT region found in Northern California. The term was first introduced to the Western press by Newsweek magazine in 1999.
Gersh Itskovich Budker, also named Andrey Mikhailovich Budker, was a Soviet physicist born in Murafa in Ukrainian People's Republic, specialized in nuclear physics and accelerator physics.
Olga Pavlovna Frolova was a Russian orientalist who wrote her major works on the Japanese and Chinese linguistics. She was a professor and a public figure. She received such State Rewards as the Order of the Rising Sun in 2007, The Order of Merit for the Fatherland in 2010, etc. She was latterly head of the Oriental Branch at the Foreign Languages Department of Novosibirsk State University (NSU). Frolova died in 2018.
Victor Sergeevich Fadin is a Russian physicist, well known for his contributions to theoretical physics and particle physics. He is a principal researcher at Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) and professor of theoretical physics at Novosibirsk State University (NSU).
Valentin Afanasyevich Koptyug was a Soviet Belarusian scientist, specializing in physical and organic chemistry.
The Specialized Educational Scientific Center on Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and Biology of Novosibirsk State University is an educational institution in Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia. It provides the final stage of secondary education and is affiliated with Novosibirsk State University.
Eduard Alekseevich Kuraev — Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist. Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (1971).
Academician Lavrentyev Avenue or Academician Lavrentyev Prospekt is a street in Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk, Russia. The avenue is named after Mikhail Lavrentyev, a Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist.
Sovetsky District is an administrative district (raion), one of the 10 raions of Novosibirsk, Russia. It is located on the right and left banks of the Ob River. The area of the district is 89,2 km2. Population: 141,911.
Zolotodolinskaya Street is a street in Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk, Russia. It starts from Morskoy Prospekt, runs south-west, crosses Uchyonykh Street, then forms a crossroad with Voyevodsky and Maltsev streets and ends near Kirovo Settlement.
Nail Hairullovich Ibragimov was a Russian mathematician and mathematical physicist. At his death he was a professor emeritus at the Blekinge Institute of Technology. Ibragimov's research area was differential calculus, group analysis and mathematical physics. He was the author of many books on mathematics and mathematical physics.
Vladilen Fyodorovich Minin is a Soviet and Russian physicist, Doctor of Technical Sciences, a professor, a member of the Academy of Technological Sciences of the Russian Federation. He was the founder, general director and chief designer of the Institute of Applied Physics (1966-1996), the founder and president of the Urals-Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Technological Sciences. He developed air- and navy- launched missiles, custom control and safety systems and computer equipment.
