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01.06.2008
TV story about Akademgorodok
Interesting story about russian "silicon taiga" by RussiaToday on YouTube:
Russia’s Novosibirsk region in southwestern Siberia is about half the size of Germany. Akademgorodok, or Academy Town, is the region’s scientific and educational centre. Founded in the 1950s, it brought 65,000 of the USSR’s greatest scientific minds together. After the collapse of the Soviet Union it had fallen into decline, but now it’s reviving.
TV story about Akademgorodok
Interesting story about russian "silicon taiga" by RussiaToday on YouTube:Russia’s Novosibirsk region in southwestern Siberia is about half the size of Germany. Akademgorodok, or Academy Town, is the region’s scientific and educational centre. Founded in the 1950s, it brought 65,000 of the USSR’s greatest scientific minds together. After the collapse of the Soviet Union it had fallen into decline, but now it’s reviving.

