Novosibirsk

Novosibirsk (Russian: Новосиби́рск) is the third-most populous city in Russia after Moscow and St. Petersburg. It is the most populous city in Asian Russia, with a population of 1,473,754 as of the 2010 Census. It is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast as well as of the Siberian Federal District.

The city is located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River adjacent to the Ob River Valley, near the large water reservoir formed by the dam of the Novosibirsk Hydro Power Plant. It is split into ten districts and occupies an area of 502.1 square kilometres (193.9 sq mi).

Novosibirsk in "It's the End of the World As We Know It, And We Feel Fine
Novosibirsk was nowhere cubed and behind the Iron Curtain in the days when Dmitry Belyaev raised foxes there. A few hundred years later, when Willie and Joe were alive, there was no more Iron Curtain, but Novosibirsk was still nowhere cubed.