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• 1893 – Novonikolayevsk settlement developed on former village site during building of Trans Siberian Railway.[1][2]
• 1894
  • November – Railway engineer Grigory Budagov opens a reading room in the settlement.[3]
• 1895
  • Resettlement Center established.
  • The first school opens in the settlement.[4]
  • The first pharmacy established.[5]
• 1896
  • A branch of the Danish company Polizen was opened in the settlement, it was engaged in purchasing and export of butter.[6]
  • 12 August – Ilya Titlyanov becomes the first starosta of the settlement elected by the residents.[7]
• 1897
  • Bridge built over Ob River.
  • A branch of the Danish company Esmana was opened.[6]
  • 21 January – Nikolay Litvinov opens the first bookstore.[8][9]
• 1898 – Church of the Prophet Daniel was consecrated near Ob Station.[10]
• 1899
  • Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built.
  • Nikolay Litvinov opens an information office.[11]
• 1900 – Typography of N. P. Litvinov opens.[12]

• 1901 – Church of the Protection of the Theotokos was consecrated.[13]
• 1902 – A. A. Pushkaryova opens a pay-library and a reading room in the settlement.[14]
• 1903 – Military Rusk Plant began operating.[15]
• 1904
  • Novonikolayevsk became town (in 1903 according to the Julian calendar).
  • Novonikolayevsk City Police Department formed (in 1903 according to the Julian calendar).[16][17]
  • Infectious Diseases Hospital established.
  • Trud Plant founded.[18]
• 1906
  • First bank opens.
  • Narodnaya Letopis newspaper begins publication.[19]
• 1907
  • 1 March – Obskoy Rabochy illegal newspaper of the Ob group of the RSDLP begins publication.[20]
  • 1 April – Sibirskaya Rech newspaper begins publication.[20]
  • 15 July – Reading Room named after Anton Chekhov opens with free admission.[21]
  • December – Novonikolayevsk Exchange Society opens.[21]
• 1908
  • 15 August – Fedot Makhotin opens the first stationary cinema.[22]
  • 21 January – Zakamenskaya Church was consecrated.[23]
• 1909
  • Novonikolayevsk Fire.
  • Obskaya Zhizn newspaper begins publication.[24]
  • St. Casimir's Roman Catholic Church was consecrated.[25]
  • A branch of the Russian Bank for Foreign Trade opens.[26]
  • February — Novonikolayevsk Police caught a gang of counterfeiters.[27]
• 1910
  • Sibirsky Kommersant newspaper begins publication.[28]
  • 31 August – Pyotr Stolypin's visit to Novonikolayevsk where he visited a resettlement center, a voluntary firefighter society, a cholera barrack, a prison, a city hospital and a rural hospital.[29]
• 1911 – Novonikolayevsk Seminary opens.[30]
• 1912 – Ekonomia Consumer Society in business.[31]
• 1913
  • Population: 62,967.[32]
  • Construction of the Military Town was completed.
  • Smallpox epidemic.[33]
  • 20 January – Sibirskaya Nov newspaper begins publication.[20]
  • 6 May – Department of the Society for the Study of Siberia and the Improvement of Its Life opens.[34]
• 1914 – Commercial Assembly Building was constructed.[35]
• 1915 – Chapel of St. Nicholas built.[36]
• 1916
  • The Union of Siberian Cooperative Unions (The Zakupsbyt) was founded.[37]
  • Golos Sibiri newspaper begins publication.[38]
  • Sugar Riot
• 1917
  • 1 February – Novonikolayevsk City Public Bank opens.[39]
  • December – Soviets in power.[40]
• 1918
  • Soap Factory founded.[41]
  • Delo Revolyutsii newspaper begins publication.[42]
• 1921 – City becomes seat of the Novonikolayevsk Governorate.
• 1922 – Monument to the Heroes of the Revolution unveiled.
• 1925
  • Central Park, Novosibirsk established.
  • Lenin Building constructed on Krasny Prospekt.[43]
  • City becomes capital of the Siberian Krai.[44]
  • Novonikolayevsk Verification Chamber of Weights and Measures No. 12 founded.[45]
  • Okhotnik Altaya hunting and fishing magazine relocates to Novonikolayevsk.[46]
• 1926
  • City renamed "Novosibirsk."[40]
  • Population: 120,128.[44]
  • Novosibirsk Research Hygiene Institute founded.
  • Sibkraisoyuz, Sibrevcom and Textilsindikat buildings were constructed.
  • Taisneiba Latgalian-language newspaper begins publication.[47]
  • The first quarter of the year – the Criminal Investigation Department identified 140 brothels in the city that provided sex services and sold drugs.[48]
  • 1 April – The AKKORT Joint-Stock Company in business.[49]
  • June 21 – A major fire in the center of Novosibirsk.
  • November 7 – Sibrevcomovsky Bridge was opened.
• 1927
  • Spartak Stadium opens.
  • Statue of Lenin unveiled on Barnaul Street.[43]
  • July – Construction of a water transportation and sewage system began in the city.
• 1928
  • Business House built.[50]
  • 18–21 January – Joseph Stalin's visit to the city.[51]
• 1929 – Sibselmash established.
• 1930
  • City becomes capital of the West Siberian Krai.[44]
  • City Clinical Hospital No. 1 founded.[52]
  • Zaobsky District was formed.
• 1931
  • Komsomolsky Railway Bridge built.
  • 1 July – Novosibirsky Rabochy newspaper begins publication.[53]
• 1932
  • National Bank building constructed.[43]
  • Siberian State Transport University opens.
• 1933
  • Dzerzhinsky District was established.
  • Novosibirsk Regional Puppet Theatre founded.
• 1934 – Novosibirsk tram begins operating.
• 1935
  • Marketplace area officially named Stalin Square, Novosibirsk[43]
  • Tomsk Railway Residential Building was constructed.[54]
• 1936
  • Football Club Sibir Novosibirsk formed.
  • Novosibirsk Agricultural Institute opens.[55]
• 1937
  • City becomes part of Novosibirsk Oblast.[1]
  • Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Society founded.
  • 100-Flat Building was constructed.[56]
• 1939
  • Novosibirsk military infantry school established.
  • Novosibirsk Regional Clinical Hospital opens.[57]
  • Population: 405,589.[44]
• 1940 – Zayeltsovsky District was formed.
• 1941
  • Chaplygin Siberian Scientific Research Institute Of Aviation founded.
  • Elektrosignal, Tochmash, Instrument-Building, Refinery plants established.[58][59][60][61]
  • NIIIP evacuated to Novosibirsk.
• 1942
  • Novosibirsk Thermal Power Plant 3 started operating.[62]
  • Chocolate, Cartographic, Film Copy factories were founded; Luch Plant established.[63][64][65]
• 1943
  • Novosibirsk TB Research Institute established.
  • Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals founded.
  • Institute of Mining opens.
  • Novosibirsk Electromechanical College established.[66]
• 1944 – Siberian Scientific Research Institute of Metrology and Chemical and Metallurgical Institute established.[67][68]
• 1945
  • Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theatre building opens.
  • Sibelektroterm established.[69]
• 1946
  • Central Siberian Botanic Garden established.[70]
  • Novosibirsk Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics was created.
• 1947 – Novosibirsk Zoo founded.[71]
• 1948 – Novosibirsk House of Models established.[72]
• 1950 – Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute established.[73]
• 1952
  • Novosibirsk Planetarium opens in Central Park.
  • Kleschihinskoe cemetery established.
• 1953 – NPO ELSIB founded.
• 1955
  • Kommunalny Bridge built.[74]
  • Leninsky Market opens.[75]
• 1956
  • Novosibirsk Conservatory established.
  • Novosibirsk State Choreographic School was created.
• 1957
  • Palace of Culture named after M. Gorky and House of Culture named after A. Popov were built.[76][77]
  • Vecherniy Novosibirsk established.
  • Novosibirsk trolley begins operating.
  • Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences established.
  • Novosibirsk Reservoir created near the city.
• 1958
  • Sovetsky District was formed.
  • Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production established.[78]
  • Institute of Organic Chemistry was founded.
• 1959
  • Novosibirsk Capacitor Plant was commissioned.[79]
  • Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics was founded.
  • Novosibirsk State University established.[80]
  • Novosibirsk Theatre of Musical Comedy established in Central Park.[81]
  • Population: 885,045.
  • Development of science town Akademgorodok begins near city.[74]
  • Fox domestication experiment.
  • July 28 – Future US President Richard Nixon visited Novosibirsk.[82]
• 1960 – Novosibirsk State Theater Institute founded.
• 1962
  • Auto Repair Plant and Experimental Mechanical Plant established.[83][84]
  • Kosmos Cinema opens.[85]
  • Algebra i Logika founded.
  • HC Sibir Novosibirsk founded.
• 1964
  • 1 January – Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics established.[86]
  • Ice Sports Palace Sibir opens.
  • Institute of Semiconductor Physics established.
• 1965 – Population: 1,029,000.[87]
• 1966
  • Siberian Mathematical Journal established.
  • Institute of Applied Physics founded.
  • Institute of Archeology and Ethnography formed.
  • 23–25 June – Charles de Gaulle's visit to Novosibirsk.[88]
• 1967
  • Novosibirsk Military Command Academy established.[89]
  • State Scientific Research Institute of Physiology and Basic Medicine established.
• 1968 – Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry founded.
• 1969 – Aurora Cinema opens.[90]
• 1970
  • Statue of Lenin, Novosibirsk unveiled in Lenin Square, Novosibirsk.
  • Beginning of the gray rat domestication experiment at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics.[91]
• 1971 – Novosibirsk Chess Club was founded.[92]
• 1972
  • 9 February – Gorizont Cinema opens.[93]
• 1976 – Novosibirskryba fish plant begins operating.[94]
• 1977 – Novosibirsk Thermal Power Plant 5 started operating.
• 1978 – Dimitrovsky Bridge built.
• 1980 – Part of the Dzerzhinsky District became the Kalininsky District.[95]
• 1981
  • 7 February – Production of Pepsi-Kola tonic drink begins in the city under an agreement between the Ministry of Trade USSR and PepsiCo.[96]
  • Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Informatics active.[80]
  • Siberian Synchrotron and Terahertz Radiation Centre was established.[97]
  • Insula Magica (early music group) formed.[98]
• 1982 – ND experiment.
• 1984 – Novosibirsk Globus Theatre built.
• 1985 – Population: 1,393,000.[99]
• 1986
  • Novosibirsk Metro begins operating.
  • Metro Bridge opens.[74]
  • Institute of Informatics and Computer Science established.[100]
  • Zakrytoye Predpriyatiye (new wave band) formed.[101]
• 1987
  • Ploshchad Garina-Mikhaylovskogo Metro Station opens.
  • Sibirskaya Metro Station built.
  • 12 February – Luch Plant produces the first two-cassette tape recorders.[93]
• 1988 – SoftLab-NSK established.
• 1989
  • Siberian Serpentarium established.
  • Moment Istiny newspaper begins publication.[102]
  • International Tomographic Center was created.[103]
• 1990
  • 24 October – Accept Bank in business.[104]
  • Institute of Computational Technologies founded.
  • Institute of Informatics Systems established.
  • Delovaya Sibir newspaper begins publication.[105]
  • Sister city relationship established with Sapporo, Japan.[106]
• 1991
  • 17 January – Levoberezhny Bank in business.[107]
  • Center of Financial Technologies established.
  • Ploshchad Marksa Metro Station built.
  • Siberian Stock Exchange established.[108]
  • Scientific Institute of clinical and experimental lymphology established.
  • Vitaly Mukha becomes governor of Novosibirsk Oblast.[40]
  • Siberian Grain Corporation in business.[109]
  • Sibir Hotel opens.[110]
• 1992
  • 15 September – Siberian Interbank Currency Exchange established.[111][112]
  • Novosibirsk State Technical University active.[80]
  • Biathlon World Championships 1992
  • Gagarinskaya Metro Station opens.
  • Zayeltsovskaya Metro Station built.
  • NTN 4 (TV channel) was founded.[113]
• 1993 – Novaya Sibir newspaper begins publication.[114]
• 1994 – Germany opens its consulate in Novosibirsk.[115]
• 1995
  • SND Experiment.
  • BrokerCreditService established.[116]
• 1996
  • Sibir-Hokkaido founded.
  • New York Pizza restaurant chain in business.[117]
• 1997
  • Transfiguration Cathedral built.
  • Hillary Clinton's visit to Novosibirsk.[118]
  • Traveler’s Coffee founded.[119]
  • Circulation Pathology and Cardiac Surgery magazine begins publication.[120]
  • NPM Group in business.[121]
• 1998 – Sibers established.
• 1999
  • Alawar established.
  • 2GIS founded.
  • Sibirsky Bereg snack food company in business.[122]
  • Viktor Tolokonsky becomes governor of Novosibirsk Oblast.[123]
• 2000
  • CDEK delivery company in business.[124]
  • Sib-Altera theatre festival begins.[125]
  • Vladimir Gorodetsky becomes mayor.
  • City becomes part of the Siberian Federal District.
  • Museum for Railway Technology Novosibirsk established.
  • Novosibirsk Center of Belarusian Culture was founded.[126]
  • 25 July – Church of the Theotokos of the Sign was consecrated.[127]
  • 17 November – Vladimir Putin's first visit to the city.[128]
  • 28 December – Marshala Pokryshkina Metro Station opens.

• 2001
  • March – The Novosibirsk Chamber of Commerce and Industry established.[129]
  • The murder of the vice mayor of Novosibirsk Igor Belyakov.[130]
• 2002
  • Novosibirsk became the third largest city in terms of population after Moscow and Saint Petersburg.[129]
  • Roman Catholic Diocese of Transfiguration at Novosibirsk active.[131]
  • 7 September – Aivazovsky's painting "Going aground" was stolen from the Novosibirsk State Art Museum.[132][133]
  • Rich Family in business.[134]
• 2003
  • Novosibirsk Crematorium was opened.
  • OR Group shoe company in business.[135]
  • Punk TV (musical group) formed.[136]
• 2004
  • February – Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics creates the Expert Database on Tsunami Observation in the Pacific Ocean.[129]
  • The murder of the vice mayor of Novosibirsk Valery Mariasov.[137]
  • SCIENCE First Hand magazine begins publication.[138]
  • For the first time the Total Dictation was held.[139]
• 2005
  • Beryozovaya Roshcha Metro Station built.
  • Small West Siberian Railway opens.
  • EF English First opens in the city.[140]
• 2007
  • September – The city launched a tracking system for public transport using the GLONASS satellite system.[129]
  • Nicolas Roerich Museum founded.
• 2008
  • 25 Juny – Pliny Starshy bookstore opens.[141]
  • September – Kapital bookstore opens.[142]
  • Novosibirsk was in the center of the path of a solar eclipse.
  • The plant of the Orion Confectionery started operating in Novosibirsk.[143]
• 2009 – Goethe-Institut opens in Novosibirsk.
• 2010
  • Population: 1,473,754.
  • Zolotaya Niva Metro Station opens.
• 2011 – Aura Mall was opened.
• 2012
  • 31 January – Novosibirsk Expocentre opens.[144]
  • 8 February – opening of the second planetarium of the city.[145]
  • 22–23 June – opening of the monument to Tsar Alexander III.[146]
• 2013
  • Arnold Katz State Concert Hall was built.[147]
  • The first Burger King restaurant was opened in the city.[148]
  • Ploho (musical group) formed.[149]
  • August – Yandex opened an office in Zheleznodorozhny District.[150]
  • November – Yandex opened a second office in Sovetsky District.[151]
• 2014
  • Bugrinsky Bridge opens.
  • Anatoly Lokot becomes mayor.
  • Buerak (musical group) formed.[152]
  • 26 July – The first McDonald's restaurant was opened in the Aura Mall.[153]
• 2015
  • Pingvin Curling Club opens.[154]
  • 7 June – Alexey Navalny's visit to Novosibirsk.[155]
• 2016
  • Novosibirsk Dolphinarium opens.[156]
  • Akvamir Waterpark built.[157]
  • Chistaya Sloboda Microdistrict and Marx Square were connected by a tram line.[158]
• 2017
  • 19 March – Alexey Navalny's visit to the city.[159]
• 2018
  • The reconstruction of the Mikhailovskaya Embankment was completed.[160]
  • School No. 214 named after Elizaveta Glinka opens.[161]
  • 7 February – Vladimir Putin's visit to Novosibirsk.[162]
• 2020
  • According to Forbes, in 2020, Novosibirsk has become one of the most popular destinations for business tourism in Russia.[163]
  • 10 February – School No. 217 was opened in Yuzhno-Chemskoy Microdistrict.[164]
  • 16–23 March – Russian Wheelchair Curling Championship.
  • 15 August – Alexey Navalny's visit to Novosibirsk.[165]
• 2021
  • 23 January – Alexei Navalny protests, more than 90 people detained by the Novosibirsk police.[166]
  • 31 January – Alexey Navalny protests, Novosibirsk police detained over 100 people.[167][168]
  • 17–24 April – Russian Fencing Championship.[169]
  • 28 June – The 4th Leroy Merlin store opens in Novosibirsk.[170]
• 2022
  • Late February – Protests against the War in Ukraine on Kalinin and Pimenov squares.[171]
  • 1 March – Roskomnadzor blocked the Taiga.info local online-edition.[172]

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