Another View of Akademgorodok.

The article presents views of a visitor of the Siberian science center Akademgorodok in Novosibirsk, Russia. The first impression of the center, including the physical plant and its natural environment, is that here is an ideal realized. Akademgorodok was almost a technological nightmare instead of a humanistic showplace. The original plans called for the erection of those huge skyscrapers. Nature was to have been locked out, men would have been locked in, and minds would surely have been sterilized by artificiality.