page_title: Novosibirsk
section_title: Economy
hierarchical_section_title: Novosibirsk / Economy
context_page_description: Novosibirsk is the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast in Russia. Located in the southwestern part of Siberia on the banks of the Ob River, it is the third-most populous city in Russia as well as the most populous city in Asian Russia, with a population of 1,612,833 as of the 2018 census.
  Novosibirsk was founded in 1893 on the Ob River crossing point of the future Trans-Siberian Railway. Originally named Novonikolayevsk, it grew rapidly into a major transport, commercial and industrial hub. The city was ravaged by the Russian Civil War but recovered during the early Soviet period, and gained its present name in 1926. Under Stalin, Novosibirsk became one of the largest industrial centers of Siberia. Following the outbreak of World War II the city hosted many factories relocated from European Russia.
  Novosibirsk is home to the headquarters of numerous Russian corporations, as well as the world-renowned Novosibirsk Zoo. It is served by Tolmachevo Airport, the busiest airport in Siberia.
context_section_description: Novosibirsk is a large industrial center. The industrial complex consists of 214 large and average sized industrial enterprises. These produce more than two thirds of all industrial output of the Novosibirsk region. Leading industries are aerospace (Chkalov's Novosibirsk Aircraft Plant), nuclear fuel (Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant), turbo and hydroelectric generators (NPO ELSIB), textile machinery (Textilmach), agriculture machinery (NPO "Sibselmash"), electronics components and devices production (Novosibirsk Factory and Design Bureau of Semiconductor Devices NZPP, OXID Novosibirsk Plant of Radio components), and metallurgy and metal working (Kuzmina's Novosibirsk Metallurgical Plant, Novosibirsk Tin Plant OJSC, and JSC Plant of Rare Metals).
  According to the television station RBC, Novosibirsk took third place in 2008 in the list of Russian cities most attractive to businesses (in 2007 it was placed thirteenth).
  Before the relocation of its headquarters to Ob, S7 Airlines had its head office in Novosibirsk.
  The headquarters of a number of large Russian companies are located in Novosibirsk:
  RATM Holding
  Antonov (Aircraft company) NAPO named after Chkalov
  Belon
  Center of Financial Technologies
  The Siberian coast Food Company (until 2009)
  NETA IT Company (retail, system integrator, software sales)
  Parallels IT Company (software for virtualization)
  Inmarko Food Company
  Siberian Food Corporation
  Electro-vacuum plant (the largest glass bottle factory in the Asian part of the country)
  NPO NIIIP-NZiK
  2GIS
caption: One of the city's new high-rises, photo from 2006
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