Omsk tourist information
There are flights 3 or 4 times a day to/from Moscow (3,5 hours), most days to/from Yekaterinburg and Novosibirsk, and a few times a week to Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk and Abakan. Train. By train, Yekaterinburg is about 12 hours away, Tyumen 8 hours, Novosibirsk 9,5 hours, and Moscow 42 hours.
Everyone who has once visited Omsk notices its openness and peculiarity. The city on the banks of the Irtish and Om rivers is beautiful in a Siberian manner, characteristic only of the Siberian towns. The region is worth visiting for its remarkable nature, historical heritage and crafts work.
If you take a boat excursion down the Irtysh River from the river station, you’ll be able to enjoy endless forests and unforgettable views of the Western Siberia. Exploring a section of the Irtysh or Ob rivers may become the highlight of your trip to Siberia. Especially as the climate in the region is much warmer compared to the rest of Siberia, allowing pine, spruce and fir to dominate the forests.
When you come to this part of Russia, you will be surprised by the first settlers’ courage and persistence in exploring and inhabiting this unfriendly, severe but beautiful land.
Omsk Region is situated to the south -west of West-Siberian low -lands and occupies the territory of 140 thousand square kilometers (54 thousand square miles). The territory of the Region includes 32 administrative districts. The northern part of the Region is a forest-taiga zone. Forest-steppe with fertile black earth soil stretches to the south. Irtish, the largest tributary of the river Ob, flows south -north of the region and is navigable throughout the territory.
The climate of the region is continental - with warm and sunny summer, frosty and snowy winter. Average temperature in January is -21C (-6F), in July +19C (+66F). Absolute temperature maximum in Omsk was +40C (+104F), absolute minimum -49C (-56F). Annual precipitation varies between 200mm and 400mm.
There are six cities in the region: Omsk, Isilkul, Kalachinsk, Nazyvaevsk, Tara and Tukalinsk. In early 1994, the urban population predominates in the region, the majority (about a million people) being concentrated in Omsk.
In spring of 1716, the guardsman of Peter the Great I.Buchholz and his detachment made a landing on the shore of the free Irtish, in the place where this powerful Siberian river meets the Om River. According to the edict of the tsar Peter the Great and his deputy in Siberia prince Gagarin, pioneers erected here the fortification to guard the south Russian borders. Thus was founded the town, which in our days became one of the largest industrial and cultural centers of Siberia.
The first fortress existed for about 50 years since it was wooden and could not endure frosts and winds of the Western Siberia. In 1768-1771 a new fortress on the initiative of the general Shpringer was constructed to replace the old one. It covered a larger territory and had better defense structures.
In 1824 replaced Tobolsk as the seat of the governor general of Siberia. In 1882 Omsk became the center of the Stepnoy Krai (Stepnoy Region).
In 1894, when the railroad came to Omsk it was called the Gates of Siberia. The Great Siberian Track made the economic contacts of businessmen more active and easier, by connecting Omsk with Moscow, Petersburg and Far East. The representatives of famous Russian and foreign firms came to the distant Siberian town. Due to this Omsk started intensive construction: banks, shops, apartments and offices. In 1934 the Omsk Region replaced the Stepnoy Krai, and since then Omsk is its administrative, industrial and cultural center.
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