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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.
In Omsk, as elsewhere in the Russian provinces, the main role for wooden architecture at the turn of the 20th century was to provide housing. Sometimes the log walls were clad with plank siding...
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May 28, 2024 · Situated in southwestern Siberia, Omsk is a city teeming with history, culture, and natural beauty. 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 ...
- Marvel at Assumption Cathedral. Orthodox architecture never gets old, even if you've been traveling in Russia for a long time. This is particularly the case when it comes to the Assumption Cathedral of Omsk, whose gold-and-turquoise domes look resplendent under the blue skies that bless Omsk during the warmer months of the year.
- Time Travel at Omsk Fortress. The bad news? Much of what was once Omsk Fortress is now a residential area, with the only notable landmark that still stands being Tobolsk Gate (think Paris' Arc de Triomphe, but yellow and smaller).
- Go Green at Ptich'ya Gavan' Or white, as it were: Omsk is covered with snow several months of the year, which means that its prized Ptich'ya Gavan' central park is often more of a winter wonderland than the green reprieve you experience in summer.
- Walk on Omsk's Artsy Side. Although the building that houses Omsk District Museum of Visual Arts is unmistakably Russian, the collection you find inside is surprisingly eclectic for a city deep in Russia's interior.
By the year of 1905 the high street of old Omsk - Lyubinsky Prospect (avenue) had been finally formed. No doubt, the leading role of its architectural complex belonged to the Moscow rows of stalls (designed by O.Dessin).
Shortly after the Great October Revolution of 1917, Omsk became the political center of Soviet authority newly set up in Western Siberia. From June 1918 to November 1919, Omsk became the capital of Russian White movement and the residence of Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who became the Supreme Governor of Russia.
