Novosibirsk ()'s Russia's third-largest city, after Moscow and Saint Petersburg, and the administrative center of Novosibirsk Oblast. It's also the largest city in Siberia and the administrative center of Siberian Federal District, in the southwest of which it's located. History The city was founded in 1893 as the future site of the Trans-Siberian Railway bridge crossing the great Siberian river Ob and was known as Novonikolayevsk after Saint Nicholas. It also was the name of the Tsar ruling at… (More on Novosibirsk)