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Omsk (/ ˈ ɒ m s k /; Russian: Омск, IPA:) is the administrative center and largest city of Omsk Oblast, Russia. It is situated in southwestern Siberia and has a population of over 1.1 million. Omsk is the third largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk, and the twelfth-largest city in Russia. [12]
1716 - Omsk fortress established. [1] [2] 1782 - Omsk becomes a city by this time. [3] 1792 - The Lutheran Church of the Holy Catherine built. 1804 - Town chartered. [4] 1808 - Siberian Cossack Army headquartered in Omsk. [5] 1813 - Cossack school founded. [6] 1823 - Fire. [6] [7] 1825 - A group of Decembrists are exiled to Omsk.
The Lutheran Church of the Holy Catherine (Russia, Omsk) is a unique religious building of the 18th century, preserved in Omsk. The church was built in 1790—1792 for the needs of foreign Protestants, who worked in the governance of Siberian corps and Omsk fortress.
After the Trans-Siberian was built, Omsk soon became the largest Siberian city, but in 1930s Soviets favoured Novosibirsk. In the 1930s the first heavy industrialization took place in the Kuznetsk Basin (coal mining and ferrous metallurgy) and at Norilsk (nickel and rare-earth metals). The Northern Sea Route saw industrial application.
2001 Omsk An-70 crash This page was last edited on 11 December 2024, at 05:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
The Omsk refinery processed more than 21 million metric tons (420,000 barrels per day) of crude oil in 2022. The Omsk oil refinery, Russia's largest, reported a fire on Monday but said it was ...
[citation needed] Its center was Omsk and consisted of uezds of Akmolinsk, Atbasar, Kokchetav, Omsk and Petropavlovsk. It bordered Tobolsk Governorate to the north, Semipalatinsk Oblast to the east, Semirechye Oblast to the northeast, Syr-Darya Oblast to the south, Turgay Oblast to the southwest and Orenburg Governorate to the northwest.
Omsktransmash (Russian: Омский завод транспортного машиностроения, lit. 'Omsk transport machine factory') is a wholly state-owned engineering company based in the city of Omsk, Russia.