Akademgorodok. This place is like no other: wide avenues, colorful neighborhoods and wooded streets. In the 60s of the previous century there was a unique phenomenon: thousands of scientists from different cities of the Soviet Union, leaving their academic institutions and flats, came to Siberia to promote science. Academician M.A. Lavrentyev was the driving force in Akademgorodok construction. Everything was planned here to provide the ideal conditions for mental work and rest. Akademgorodok is included in all architectural books as an example of a garden city and became world famous island of freedom and creativity in the USSR. The world famous scientists lived and worked here, thousands of scientific discoveries were made in this place, among them the discovery of Siberian oil, research on history, genetics, nuclear physics. The range of research in the Novosibirsk Akademgorodok is the biggest worldwide.