Soviet science city rises from the ashes

Published: 10 January, 2008, 19:13

Scientists in Academgorodok creating the next generation of modern medicine (image from pemed.com)

Russia’s Novosibirsk region in southwestern Siberia is about half the size of Germany. Akademgorodok, or Academy Town, is the region’s scientific and educational centre. Founded in the 1950s, it brought 65,000 of the USSR’s greatest scientific minds toget

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