Novosibirsk Oblast

The terrain of Novosibirsk Oblast ranges from the flat Baraba Lowland in the west to the wooded Salair Ridge in the southeast, creating a transition from steppe and wetlands to upland forest. Lake Chany, one of western Siberia’s largest lakes, lies in the lowland, while the Ob is the oblast’s defining river and flows through Novosibirsk. The regional capital began as Novonikolayevsk, a settlement founded in 1893 during construction of a Trans-Siberian Railway bridge across the Ob. Today, Novosibirsk is also associated with Akademgorodok, its Soviet-era research district. Rail and river routes still connect this inland territory across southern Siberia. Continue to other webcams in the region to compare landscapes and settings across Novosibirsk Oblast.

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