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Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Akademgorodok is the science quarter of Novosibirsk's Sovetsky District, laid out from 1957 as the scientific centre of Siberia.
About Akademgorodok
Where to stay in Akademgorodok
Where you base yourself shapes the visit — here's the character of each area.
Rooms here answer to the institutes. Akademgorodok sits 30 kilometres south of the Novosibirsk city centre, so a bed in the quarter keeps the Monument to the laboratory mouse and the institutes within a walk while the city proper becomes a journey. That trade is the whole decision.
Anyone whose business is with the institutes of Sovetsky District, or with Koltsovo about 10 kilometres east, gains more out here than from a central Novosibirsk room.
About Akademgorodok
What are the main landmarks in Akademgorodok?
One monument stands out. The Monument to the laboratory mouse is the single memorial the quarter keeps, a small sculpture suited to a place built for research rather than for display, and it does more work as a symbol than any building here. The rest is the institutes themselves.
Sovetsky District holds them, and what a visitor walks through is a quarter laid out for laboratories 30 kilometres from the Novosibirsk city centre.
What is the history of Akademgorodok?
The date is 1957. Akademgorodok was laid out from that year as the educational and scientific centre of Siberia, a quarter placed 30 kilometres south of the Novosibirsk city centre rather than grown outward from it. Sovetsky District holds it administratively.
The Monument to the laboratory mouse belongs to that founding purpose, and Koltsovo, about 10 kilometres east, is the nearest named neighbour in the record for this corner of Russia.
Where is Akademgorodok?
Akademgorodok lies 30 kilometres south of the Novosibirsk city centre and about 10 kilometres west of Koltsovo, inside Sovetsky District.
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Updated August 2026