'''Novosibirsk Oblast''' is a region in Western Siberia, which borders Kazakhstan to the southwest, Omsk Oblast to the west, Tomsk Oblast to the north, Kemerovo Oblast to the east, and Altai Krai to the south.

Regions

Cities

  • Novosibirsk — the administrative capital of Siberia, Russia's third largest city, and home to more than half of Novosibirsk Oblast's residents.
  • Barabinsk — a Trans-Siberian Railway town.
  • Berdsk — an old city and the region's second largest.
  • Iskitim — a small, very unpretentious, industrial city with a museum of regional studies.
  • Karasuk — a town on the Karasuk River near the border with Altai Krai and Kazakhstan.
  • Other destinations

    Understand

    Talk

    Russian is essential for extensive independent travel.

    Get in

    Novosibirsk receives flights from international destinations such as: Baku, Bangkok, Beijing, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Frankfort, Hanover, Kiev, Tashkent, and Urumqi, as well as many domestic flights from all over Russia.

    The Trans-Siberian Railway also crosses Novosibirsk Oblast and stops at (from west to east): Kalachinsk, Tatarsk, Barabinsk, Ob, Novosibirsk, and Bolotnoye.

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    Get out

    The next major stops on the Trans-Siberian Railway are Omsk to the west and Anzhero-Sudzhensk to the east. You may also go to Barnaul and on to Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan via the Turkestani-Siberian Magistral line from Novosibirsk. Direct trains also run from Novosibirsk to Kemerovo and Novokuznetsk.