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The town, whose name would translate to English as Academic Town, was founded in the 1950s by the USSR Academy of Sciences and Arts . Academician Mikhail Alexeyevich Lavrentyev (1900-1980), a prominent physicist and mathematician, the first Chairman of the Siberian Division of the USSR Academy of Science, played a prominent role at establishing Akademgorodok. At its peak, Akademgorodok was home of 65,000 scientists and their families, and was a privileged area to live in, with well-stocked stores and dachas for the academic elite.

Research instututes in Akademgorodok (reference): Kutateladze Institute of Thermal Physics, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, United Institute of Catalysis, Vorozhtsov Novosibirsk Institute of Organic Chemistry, Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, United Institute of Informatics and Mathematical Geophysics, Novosibirsk Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Institute of Cutology and Genetics, Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, United Institute of Geolody, Geophisics and Mineralogy, United Institute of Automation and Electrometry, United Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, United Institute of Hydrodynamics, United Institute of History, Philogy and Philosophy, Institute of Laser Physics, Central Siberian Botanical Gardens, Institute of Solid State Cyemistry and Mechanochemistry, Research Institute of Circulation Patology, Scientist's House, Presdium of the Sibirian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk State University Novosibirsk State University, Phys.-Math School, Museum of Archaeology and Etnography, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineeting, Central Sibirian Geological Museum.