Novosibirsk: Then and Now.

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The Com­mu­nal Bridge, back then (late 1970s)

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The Com­mu­nal Bridge, nowadays.

The unof­fi­cial cap­i­tal of Siberia, the city of Novosi­birsk was founded in 1893 with the ini­tial pop­u­la­tion of only 8,000 peo­ple. By the time of the Great Octo­ber Social­ist Rev­o­lu­tion of 1917,  it grew to the pop­u­la­tion size of 80,000. The name, lit­er­ally mean­ing New Siber­ian City, was adopted in 1926 — and since then, the town had become to grow and prosper.By 1962, Novosi­birsk became the youngest city in the world to have the pop­u­la­tion of 1 mil­lion — it only took about 70 years. Now it is an impor­tant indus­trial, cul­tural and socioe­co­nomic hub of the country.

We realise that today’s post is a lit­tle dif­fer­ent from our usual for­mat, as the mod­ern pic­tures of the city are, well, mod­ern and not of the Soviet epoch. It is still nice to see, how­ever, how the city has been chang­ing over the past hun­dred years — and the old pho­tographs are still full of life and very easy on the eye.

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Apart­ment block nick­named “The house of porters”. Late 1930s

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“The house of porters” now

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The Archi­tec­ture Acad­emy, 1929.

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The Archi­tec­ture Acad­emy now.

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The Train Ter­mi­nal. Early 1930s.

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The Train Ter­mi­nal nowadays.

Now the three images of the City Trade Complex.

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Back in those days, the city was called Novo-Nikolaevsk

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The City Trade Com­plex in late 1920s

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The Labour Day Parade, 1938.

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Still one of the pret­ti­est build­ings around.

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The Siber­ian Mil­i­tary HQ. 1940s = please note the horse carriage.

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The Siber­ian Mil­i­tary HQ build­ing, now.

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Stalin Street (later renamed as Lenin St). 1938.

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Lenin St Now.

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Another view of then-Stalin St. Please note the green build­ing of the Opera and Bal­let Theatre.

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A mod­ern close up of the Opera and Bal­let The­atre — it is the largest the­atre of the kind in Europe.

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The city cen­tre. Note the park­ing lot for the coachmen.

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The same street pho­tographed from a sim­i­lar spot much later — a mod­ern photo.

And finally some shots of the main street of Novosi­birsk — the Kras­nyi (“Red”) Road.

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1927.

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Exactly the same spot — now

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The house of the mer­chant Mash­takov. Late 1920s.

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The house of the mer­chant Mash­takov nowadays.

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1960s

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1960 – 1965

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The Kras­nyi Road now.

Most images are cour­tesy of Egor Egoshin, and we are very grate­ful for that.


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