Новосибирск. Краткая история

Переименование в Новосибирск (1903 год): В 1903 году город был переименован из Новониколаевска в Новосибирск, что отразило его статус как центра новой области и усилило связь с историческим наследием Сибири.

Период Великой Отечественной войны (1941—1945 годы): Во время Великой Отечественной войны Новосибирск стал важным военно-промышленным центром, где производились танки, самолеты и другое военное снаряжение.

На сегодняшний день (2020) Новосибирск является крупнейшим городом Сибири и одним из крупнейших городов России с населением свыше 1,6 миллиона жителей.

Город активно развивается, укрепляя свои позиции в области науки, образования, промышленности и культуры.

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The city of Novosibirsk was founded in 1893 during the period of rapid construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway across Russia.

The small village of Krivoschekovo on the Ob River was chosen by the Ministry of Railways as the site for a major bridge crossing and renamed Novonikolaevsk in the same year.

The engineers faced a grandiose task – to build a bridge across the 1.

5 km wide Ob River valley. Under the direction of Konstantin Mikhailovsky, a 13-span steel bridge on stone piers was built according to American designs and completed in 1897. With the appearance of the bridge Novonikolayevsk became an important transportation hub.

In 1903 Novonikolayevsk received the status of a city. The population grew rapidly due to the influx of railroad workers and engineers. By 1908 the population reached 47 thousand people.

The first bank, hotel, telegraph and telephone network appeared in the city.

In 1910s Novonikolaevsk turned into a large industrial center. Railroad workshops turned into a huge locomotive and car building plant. Metallurgical, flour milling, sawmill and brick factories were built. During the First World War the industry was converted to the production of military products. After the revolution of 1917 the city was renamed Novonikolayevsk.

In the 1920s, under Soviet rule, the city continued to develop as a center of wagon building and machine building.

Major infrastructure projects included construction of city sewerage, internal water supply, electrification and streetcar lines. In 1925, the city's first airport was built.

By the 1930s Novosibirsk had become Siberia's largest industrial and transportation hub. Rapid development of heavy industry contributed to the growth of population, which by 1939 exceeded 400 thousand people.