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- In the center of Omsk, near the building of Vodokanal, the oldest urban tree grows – a 132-year-old white willow.
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Oct 24, 2018 · In the center of Omsk, near the building of Vodokanal, the oldest urban tree grows – a 132-year-old white willow. The girth of a ten-meter tree reaches five and a half meters. There is another long-lived tree in the city – the Siberian apple tree.
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A forest near Omsk. Photo credit: Dmitry Feoktistov for RBTH Omsk became the headquarters of the anti-Bolshevik white army led by Admiral Aleksandr Kolchak in 1918. In late 1918 there was a revolt in the city initiated by a leftist faction (Socialist Revolutionary Party or SPs) with 500 rebel deaths at the hands of Cossacks and Czechoslovak soldier...
Photo credit: Lori/Legion-Media At 1.15 million people Omsk dwarfs the region’s second largest city, Tara (population 28,000). The city is split by the River Irtysh into two sections (all places of interest are on the right bank) with downtown emanating from the River Om. Most foreigners have heard of Omsk via writer Fyodor Dostoevsky who spent fou...
Milhail Vrubel's painting 'Demon Seated in a Garden' (1890) The Pushkin State Library is worth a look with busts of Russian literary figures adorning the front side of the building. At the corner under the big “M” is one of several stations of the never completed Omsk metro. Construction began in 1992, but as of 2014 the project is again dormant du...
A monument to Stepanych, Lenina Street, Omsk. Photo credit: RIA Novosti/Pavel Lisitsyn While Omsk may not be on everyone’s radar musically, it does host a musical theaterbuilt just after the war. The building on 10 Let Oktyabrya Street is in the form of an enormous sloping grand piano. Perhaps Russia’s most famous punk band, Grazhdanskaya oborona (...
In Russia, Omsk is known among the younger, tech-savvy generation primarily because of the “Omsk bird,” also known as Winged Doom. The origin of what became one of Russia’s most ubiquitous memes comes from a painting by German artist Heiko Müller. One day in 2009 an Internet user posted this painting with the line, “Welcome to Omsk,” at the top. Ad...
The southern and northern branches of the Trans-Siberian Railway converge here with about 10 trains going to or from Moscow on any given day (37-47 hours each way) and many trains travel to and from the Far East (4-5 days) daily. Aeroflot, Transaero, and S7 fly to Moscow daily (3 hours). Less frequent flights connect to Saint Petersburg (3 hours), ...
Central hotel choices include Tourist with rooms starting from 1800 rubles (about $47) and Ibis Sibirwith rooms starting at 4000 rubles (about $104). All rights reserved by Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
May 28, 2024 · From its humble beginnings as a fortress in the 18th century to its status as one of Russia’s largest cities today, Omsk has a lot to offer visitors and residents alike. In this article, we will delve into 36 interesting facts about Omsk that will give you a deeper understanding of this remarkable city.
Omsk (/ ˈ ɒ m s k /; Russian: Омск, IPA:) is the administrative center and largest city of Omsk Oblast, Russia. It is situated in southwestern Siberia and has a population of over 1.1 million. Omsk is the third largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk , and the twelfth-largest city in Russia. [12]
In the city center, between the Vodokanal building and the square named after The 30th anniversary of the Komsomol, the oldest tree of Omsk is growing-white willow (132 years). In the girth, the barrel is 5.5 meters, in height - more than 10 meters.
Despite all the obvious shortcomings it still is a fairly large city with good enough economic activity. You can get a job, save up some money, move away. There's even some kind of a governmental relocation program. Compare it to some random village in central Russia, or a dying 20000 people mono-town in the Urals.
But, it was the railroads that made Omsk a boomtown. In 1894-1895, Omsk was linked by the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Chelyabinsk in the west and Novonikolaevsk (later Novosibirsk) in the east.
