New Britain herald., 1930-05-23
SIBERIAN CHICAGO
 GETS NEW RAILWAY
N0Y0-SiberSk, on Silent Scopes, " Is Modern City

4 Washington, ?. C. May 26.- ~ Movie houses, where Russians Tar s+ tars. Films and Chinese view Amer ican films are a feature Of Noyo- s stbersk, northern terminus of Rus- sia's newest railway. Electric lIg1rs light up the silent siber!aa stePpes 1 in the environs Of this hustling com arn erciaI city, Grain elevators, banks st and drugstores now stand where fl years ago roamed gray wolves CT tie e Siberian plains
 ~ American speed is e1em plI6ed ln ~~ this Russian city ot 3.G00 people p which has grown iron. q few mud 70 huts in -597.' says I auua-ln from sthe Washington, T. (. Headquarters r= CT the National Geog-a phIc society.
 Cubist Buildings
 "NoFo-S!bj-sh tr appears as aa -Nikolaeysk on older u2aps) IS now the metropolis ot the S:be-.an area ot the Russian Socialist teder- .- alive Soviet rer1bt.c. The latter re- s% public includes most ot old Euro- peau Russia and most Of Siberia. The clty lies n southwest Siberia. on .~rortE Asia's ba-sest river the Ob, .-To The west O. j- stretches the Ba-a- "hlaskr sJsppe. hundreds ot miles CT fiat n7orotonous prairie, East Of ir, 3tll!v woo1 stappe reaches to the a~Absaaa mountains. 'Stber!as Chi- ~cago' the Russians call the city.
 Noyo-Sib,rsk $ main street is -.paved. Most Of the others are not 4.so fortunate. But they have mod ~ern names that breathe Of the So- v.er influence. Political heroes are -ro. uareHarted. There are Maxim @~Go-I and Sverd!ov streets. Octa- ~hrskaya, or October street, com .nenorates the October revolution. mSoyiet and Communisticteska ~straets may he Russian, but their ~names are explanatory
 Distinctive public buildings arc @che airn Of Noyo-S oirsk's architects. =~Tall gray structures with stripes n | -"dark blue or some other contrast Ing color strike q modernistlc note. mThey contrast with the usua! color s~-ess dwelling places, where q n14ni- ~nlum amount Of decoration IS ex- pended. Sovlet clubs are fashion ~abIe. The club or the Youthful -~Lerinjsts has t own clubhouse as -has the club of the Fifth Anniyer- sary of the October Revolution.
 4g American Machinery
 'NongrtI bcsr describes NoEo- ~@slhirsk's ponuLa-,on. Newspa pars srA printed IT Russian, Tatar Lat -ylan ard Estonlan II the ca :. .~a vernment-cortroIled combina- ~t1on cafe and gambling house ye'- 1ow-sklnned, sIanJ-eyed MongoIs sit --Tlth blonde Russian gIr.s. Koreans --a1d Chinese and Jers are in the ''assembly. 4 Finn or { Tatar nay drive one ot the automobiles or ~forse cabs that have such q tune re- ~got!ating the muddy streets. Busl- mess offices, q postal telegraph build Sing, the German consulate and the mfoHn museum give an occidental @1ouch to 2 clty with an oriental pop ~sllatloR, The leading paper with ~prental artIassHess IS called The Village Truth.
 ~ Not for nothing is Noyo- -Sibirsk ~called siberia's Chicago Flour mills, ~graia elevators, saw mills and tsn- sreries take care Of the large trade .an grain, wood and hides. EIectrtci- ~ty runs the plants and American machinery Is much in use, Brick eEorks are kept busy supplying the ~thick bricks which must be used in ~the city's structures 10 keep out the .syinter cold Of 50 degrees below zero. siberias' Butter Capital
 s@ Tn the summer. Novo- -Siblrsk' s --butter hegira' begins, Trains are vTnade up here which take butter to sdoningrad and Moscow and eventu- ally to Paris and London From ten to fourteen times 2 week, the trains ~start out from the town with sever- =sl ice trucks carrying 2. few hundred tons Of butter. At Omsk, kurgan .and other transit certers. new cars ~sre added. The train IS usually 25 trucks long by the time II reaches Gheliabinsk in European Russia.
 Transportation means are Novo- ~sioIrsk's least worry, It lies on the ~Trans-Slberian railway 4 branch -JaIlroad has run for some tune 4eouth~est 70 Semipala tinsE. and now nthls road is extended by the ne1 line sfo meet the railway system of Gen. 4sra. Asia. Another road runs southeast +o Kosh-Agach or the sIonEollan frontier And steamboatz -ply the Ob rlver 10 the north and to athe south"