Omsk is a city lying on the Trans-Siberian railway on the right bank of the Irtysh, Om estuary, not far away from the border with Kazakhstan.
is 1.14 million inhabitants and is the seventh largest city in Russia. It is also the center of Siberian Cossacks, the seat of the Orthodox bishop and the imam of Siberia.
Year 1716 was created as a wooden fortress, which had defended the growing Russian Empire from the peoples of the steppe / Kirghiz for instance. At the end of the 18th century Omsk became the city / 1782 / and the wooden towers were replaced brick walls, from which today the remaining two gates - Tobolsk, and constitute part. At the beginning of the 19th Aug. century Omsk became the steppes Centrex / Kazakhstan / and western Siberia. Even then there were several churches for different denominations, a few mosques, a synagogue, the office of governor and military academy. Because of the constant moving boundary to the east, the importance of cities in the second half of the 19th age of collapsing. They were there to send deportees as for example, Dostoyevsky. Was salvation for the city of Trans-Siberian railway. Thanks to her from the 90th 19th year age to Omsk conducted a lot of commercial companies, were opened here konzulaty Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. At the beginning of the 20th age in 1910 organized the Siberian Omsk agricultural and industrial exhibition. The atmosphere of the city enthused foreign observers so that they called chicagi Omsk in Siberia. After the October Revolution to Omsk pulls monarchists and Civil War there was a center of government, Alexander Kolchak. Omsk was a provisional government for its capital. 1919 Kolchak had to give way to Irkutsk and Omsk occupied red.
