Novosibirsk (rus)

Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk ranks 505th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Amman, Stockport, and Toledo, Spain. Memorable people born in Novosibirsk include Aleksandr Karelin, Alexander Pokryshkin, and Sergey Surovikin. Memorable people who died in Novosibirsk include Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, Dmitry Belyayev, and Anatoly Pepelyayev. Novosibirsk has been the birth place of many athletes, and fencers and the death place of many military personnels, and biologists. Novosibirsk is located in Russia.

Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, making it the most populous city in Siberia and the third-most populous city in Russia after Moscow and Saint Petersburg. It is also the most populous city in the Asian part of Russia. Novosibirsk is located in southwestern Siberia, on the banks of the Ob River. Read more on Wikipedia