The town-planers of the new Omsk set themselves the task of turning streets and squares, parks and gardens to face the river. The Irtysh of nowadays becomes the main axis of the composition around which the city is developing and growing. The idea of the expansion of the town area including the left bank of the Irtysh appeared in the early 1950s when the Moscow Giprogor Institute was working out the first variant of the overall plan for the urban development. The opportunity to use the left bank created conditions for a new town architectural structure. Natural landscape promotes making these living microdistricts especially cosy and comfortable.
Young birch groves near many-storeyed houses look nice rain or shine, wet or fine.
To contemplate their beauty, tranquil and clear, really heals emotional state. The Omsk bridges besides their principal function to be a means of communication also adorn the city with their audacity of the engineering solution and expressiveness of the forms. The bridges were erected according to the design of the Lengiprotransport Institute. The panorama of the city is enriched by some new largescale erections of the last decades. The aspiration of the Omsk architects for making the environment more humane became apparent in their solution of the footpath of Ch.