Timeline of Omsk

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Omsk, Russia.

Prior to 20th century

• 1716 - Omsk fortress established.
• 1792 - The Lutheran Church of the Holy Catherine built.
• 1804 - Town chartered.
• 1808 - Siberian Cossack Army headquartered in Omsk.
• 1813 - Cossack school founded.
• 1823 - Fire.
• 1827 - Agricultural research institute established.
• 1839 - Capital of western Siberia relocated to Omsk from Tobolsk.
• 1843 - St. Nicholas Cossack Cathedral built.
• 1876 - Omsk Drama Theatre established.
• 1877 - Russian Geographical Society's west Siberian branch established.
• 1878 - Omsk History Museum founded.
• 1881 - Population: 31,000.
• 1887 - Population: 33,847.
• 1895 - Trans-Siberian Railway begins operating.
• 1897 - Population: 37,470.
• 1898 - Assumption Cathedral consecrated.
• 1900 - Population: 53,050.

20th century

• 1913 - Population: 135,800.
• 1918 - November: Provisional All-Russian Government headquartered in Omsk.
• 1919
  • 14 November: Red Army takes city.
  • Union of Chinese Workers formed.
• 1927 - Agricultural Institute's Botanical Garden established.
• 1929 - Omsk Tsentralny Airport begins operating.
• 1933 - Kirov District, Omsk established.
• 1934 - City becomes part of the Omsk Oblast.
• 1935 - Assumption Cathedral demolished; Pioneer's Square laid out.
• 1937 - Omsk Children's Theatre founded.
• 1939 - Population: 280,716.
• 1946 - Football Club Irtysh Omsk formed.
• 1950 - Spartak Omsk ice hockey team formed.
• 1955 - Oil refinery begins operating in vicinity.
• 1965 - Population: 721,000.
• 1966 - Red Star Stadium (Omsk) opens.
• 1973 - Omsk State Circus founded.
• 1974 - Omsk State University established.
• 1983 - Literature museum founded.
• 1985 - Population: 1,108,000.
• 1986 - Blinov Sports and Concerts Complex opens.
• 1989 - Population: 1,148,418.
• 1990 - Siberian International Marathon begins.
• 1991
  • Omsk City Art Museum founded.
  • Leonid Polezhayev becomes governor of Omsk Oblast.
  • Yuri Shoikhet becomes mayor.
• 1992 - Omsk Metro construction begins.
• 1993 - Omsk State Pedagogical University active.
• 1994 - Valerii Roshchupkin becomes mayor.
• 2000 - City becomes part of the Siberian Federal District.

21st century

• 2001 - Evgeniy Belov (Russian politician) becomes mayor.
• 2005 - Viktor Shreider becomes mayor.
• 2007
  • Arena Omsk opens.
  • Assumption Cathedral reconstructed.
• 2010 - Population: 1,153,971.
• 2012 - Vyacheslav Dvorakovsky becomes mayor.

See also

• Omsk history
• History of Omsk
• Timelines of other cities in the Siberian Federal District of Russia: Novosibirsk