Archinect - News 2024-05-02T18:43:50-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/145118384/the-siberian-silicon-valley-the-billion-dollar-tech-hub-built-on-the-ruins-of-a-soviet-science-city The Siberian Silicon Valley: the billion-dollar tech hub built on the ruins of a Soviet science city Nicholas Korody 2016-01-06T14:14:00-05:00 >2016-01-06T20:35:31-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/83/83y1li9b33snfdcq.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Located in the middle of the Eurasian landmass 3,000km east of Moscow, with a climate that ranges from 30C mosquito-ridden summers to -40C snow-drenched winters, this isn&rsquo;t the most obvious place for a tech startup hub... The Academpark is not some random outpost in the middle of nowhere, but the latest part of a plan to revive Akademgorodok, the Soviet science town that was established here in 1957, and long since left to languish.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>