As a reminder of its Soviet past, a vast brooding statue of Lenin still glowers over a city centre that has already lost much of its Communist feel.
Good for souvenir photos, as a meeting point and just as beginning of your walk or drive about the city.
You may see just married couples visiting here and sipping champagne. Pleasant gardens around this square and open air exhibitions.
Plane schedules disrupted, residents warned to stay indoors, sailors had to use GPS to get back to land because of thick smoke fumes from raging forest fires.
Unique new technology being tested in Novosibirsk will ensure would-be mothers know the ideal time they can get pregnant.
Women want to serve their country, says deputy defence minister Nikolai Pankov.
Yana on her dream to create a magazine matching Vogue, and Taya on photographing Siberian women to rival the world's top models.
Locals undress to impress at resorts across four time zones.
May Day saw around 3,000 'monstrators' out on the streets of Novosibirsk, the latest gathering of a trend that began in 2004.