Motor transport

The length of the motor-road system of the oblast is over 12,000 km, 7500 of them are hard-surface roads. The road transport is mainly traffic inside the oblast, though Novosibirsk itself has about ten large truck fleets which are interurban transport. Motor vehicles run also on an international service (China, European countries). The nature of conveyances can be inferred from the case of the largest motor transport enterprise in the oblast, Motor Transport Combine No.1. Main loads conveyed by the enterprise are foods(chocolate, juice, meat, butter, cheese), television sets, sewing machines, washing machines, computer facilities, machine tools, pipes, raw materials. Monthly traffic volume is 80,000 tons. Bus lines run from Novosibirsk to Tomsk, Kemerovo, Novokuznetsk, Barnaul. Inside the oblast, practically all localities are covered by the passenger traffic network.

fleet-парк(автомобилей и др.)

conveyance-перевозка, транспортировка

infer-делать заключение, вывод, подразумевать

Combine-комбинат, объединение

sewing machines-швейные машины

pipe-труба

localities-населенные пункты

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The first siberian

In 1979, the building of the underground, the first and the only beyond the Urals, began in Novosibirsk. The building of the first run (Studencheskaya-Krasny Prospekt) was completed in 1985. Novosibirsk metro was put into operation in 1986. The first phase of Project Novosibirsk Metro was completed in April 1992. Its length was 11.5 km, 10 stations, it carried 350,000 passengers daily- 18 percent of total public traffic. Nowdays it includes 12 stations and a metro bridge across the Ob river 2145 meters long. With that, trains run during rush hours at maximum intervals of 3.5 minutes.

Novosibirsk metro will develop: the project, whose implementation is designed to the year 2030, provides for the construction of 70 stations, and the total length will amount to 90km.

rush hour-час пик

implementation-осуществление, выполнение

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Science and education

Novosibirsk is a scientific and technical centre of world wide importance. Here, there are 43 academic higher and 58 specialized secondary education institutions, including 17 colleges and 20 technical schools.

More than half of all Siberian academic scientists working in the field of fundamental scientific and technological research live in Novosibirsk. About 100 Russian academicians and corresponding members, 600 doctors of science and 3500 candidates of science work in academic research institutes. Developements are under way in all natural-scientific directions:

physics, mechanics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computer sciences, geology as well as in the fields of economics, agriculture, medicine, linguistics,archaeology, and history.