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Kolyvan

Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
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About Kolyvan

Kolyvan is an city locality and the workplace of Kolyvansky District of Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia. Until the 1890, Kolyvan changed into the economic middle of the encircling location. During the development of the Trans-Siberian Railway in the 1890, there were plans to path the railroad via Kolyvan and Tomsk. However, Konstantin Garin-Mikhaylovsky, the engineer accountable for routing the railroad in the place, decided that a website at the village of Krivoshchyokovo, a few 40 kilometers upstream from Kolyvan, might be a great deal extra suitable for bridge creation: that changed into the most effective spot inside the place wherein both the river banks and river bed had been of stable rock; except, the floodplain is the narrowest there as manner.

Despite the protests of Kolyvan and Tomsk traders, Garin-Mikhailovsky's southern course become approved by means of Alexander III in 1892. The bridge became constructed at Krivoshchekovo; the new metropolis of Novo-Nikolayevsk arose around the bridge, and sooner or later have become Siberia's biggest town, meanwhile Kolyvan stagnated. The majority of the log homes in Kolyvan are over century antique, making the settlement a historic monument in itself. Works through Kolyvan craftsmen are exhibited inside the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Local sights encompass a museum of neighborhood records and a Russian Orthodox convent.

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