Academician Lavrentyev Avenue () or Academician Lavrentyev Prospekt is a street in

Akademgorodok Akademgorodok ( rus, Академгородок, p=ɐkəˌdʲemɡərɐˈdok, "Academic Town") is a part of the Sovetsky City District, Novosibirsk, Sovetsky District of the city of Novosibirsk, Russia, located south of the city center and abou ...

Novosibirsk Novosibirsk is the largest city and administrative centre of Novosibirsk Oblast and the Siberian Federal District in Russia. As of the 2021 Russian census, 2021 census, it had a population of 1,633,595, making it the most populous city in Siber ...

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. The avenue is named after

Mikhail Lavrentyev Mikhail Alekseyevich Lavrentyev (or Lavrentiev, ; November 19, 1900 – October 15, 1980) was a Soviet mathematician and hydrodynamicist. Early years Lavrentyev was born in Kazan, where his father was an instructor at a college (he later became ...

, a

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and hydrodynamicist.

Research institutes

Institute of Cytology and Genetics Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences () is a research institute based in Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1957. Experiments * Fox domestication experiment Magazines * Vavilov's Jour ...

* Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry * Rzhanov Institute of Semiconductor Physics * Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry *

Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics Lavrentyev Institute of Hydrodynamics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences () is the first research institute based in Akademgorodok of Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1957. History The scientific organization was est ...

* Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine *

Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics The Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP) is one of the major centres of advanced study of nuclear physics in Russia. It is located in the Siberian town Akademgorodok, on Academician Lavrentyev Avenue, Novosibirsk, Academician Lavrentiev ...

* Institute of Laser Physics *

Boreskov Institute of Catalysis Boreskov Institute of Catalysis of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, BIC () is a research institute in Novosibirsk, Russia. It was founded in 1958. History The Institute of Catalysis was founded in the summer of 1958 as part of the Siberian Branc ...

* Institute of Computational Technologies * Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems * Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics * Kutateladze Institute of Thermophysics * Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering * Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry * Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography

Gallery

Дерево А.А. Леонова, посаженное на проспекте Лаврентьева в Новосибирске.jpg, The tree planted by cosmonaut

Alexei Leonov Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov. (30 May 1934 – 11 October 2019) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut and aviator, Soviet Air Forces, Air Force major general, writer, and artist. On 18 March 1965, he became the first person to conduct a Extravehic ...

, the first person to walk in space.

References

Streets in Novosibirsk Sovetsky District, Novosibirsk {{NovosibirskOblast-geo-stub