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Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk/Russia An abbreviation of Akademicheskiy Gorodok ‘Academic Campus’. It was founded in 1957 as a purpose‐built town and the headquarters of the Siberian branch of the Academy of Sciences, to which some 40 000 scientists were sent.

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Akademgorodok , city, W central Siberian Russia, near Novosibirsk . A scientific center begun in 1959, it is the site of 20 institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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