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Deacon Blue are a band hailing from Glasgow, Scotland who formed in 1985. Since their debut, the band have released eight studio albums and have become one of the most beloved cult acts to ever come from the Scottish indie scene.

Normally, if one was to hear about a band fronted by an ex-school teacher and named after a Steely Dan song, the understandable reactions would be to instinctively write off that band as utterly insufferable before one has ever heard any of their music. However, to write off Deacon Blue would be a grave error indeed, no matter what the circumstances of their formation might be. Said ex-school teacher is the band's singer and Dundee, Scotland native Ricky Ross, who put the band together after moving from to Glasgow to pursue a solo career in music. After his debut album “So Long Ago” failed to make the earth move, he put the band together in 1985, and by 1987 the band had released their debut album “Raintown” on Columbia Records.

The next seven years of the band's career were incredibly kind to them, with several hit singles on both the UK and Ireland's singles charts, along with four critically and commercially successful albums to their name. Their second effort, 1989's “When The World Knows Your Name” was especially huge, topping the album charts and sending five of its singles into the top 30 of the singles chart, including a top ten hit in the form of its lead single “Real Gone Kid”. The band capped off the campaign for that album by headlining “The Big Day”, a free concert at Glasgow Green where the band played to an estimated quarter of a million people.

The band were on top of the world, and gaining momentum at an astonishing rate until 1994, when the band's drummer Dougie Vipond left the band to pursue a career in television. The band split amicably soon afterwards, but would reform five years later for a reunion concert in 1999, and then release a new album in the form of the same year's “Walking Back Home”. The band remain active to this day, releasing hugely acclaimed albums to a devoted following of fans both old and new. For staying relevant and exciting thirty years after forming, Deacon Blue come highly recommended.

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Glasgow Scotland natives Deacon Blue have been doing their stadium anthemic rock since 1985, having released six studio albums to date. They’ve had their music feature on soundtracks and a number over TV advertisements over the years. They achieved their first top ten single with “Real Gone Kid” in 1988 when it peaked at number 8 in the chart. They open this evening with “Real Gone Kid”, there is delay on the guitars as the lights go from dark to light, illuminating the stage. The famous octave piano sounds at the start, and then the hit hats come in, setting the pace for the rest of the song. After a “two, three, four”, bellowed by front man Ricky Ross, the bouncing of the audience begins, followed by the chorus of joining in with that distinctive falsetto “Oooo” hook that repeats in the opening of this song. There is a huge sing along when it comes to songs such as “Fergus Sings the Blues” and “Chocolate Girl”. Their cover of Burt Bacharach and David Song’s “I’ll Never Fall in Love Again” is a surprising but intimate moment between Ross, his left hand woman and wife Lorraine McIntosh and the audience.

When they launch into “Fergus Sings the Blues”, they sing the chorus and the whole audience join in singing at the top of their lungs. Singer, Ross takes a step back from the microphone before starting the song to just take in the amazing audience reaction. The set, rightly so turned into a mutual appreciation society between the audience and the band.

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Last night of their tour and it more than excelled all expectations...starting with “I was right and you were wrong.” With a bit of the Raintown album thrown in. Alongside a couple of songs from “A new house” album. A few old favourites and a few mash ups thrown in for good measure. Playing over 2:20 minutes.... playing 26 songs in total ... “Dignity, twist and shout, and Fergus” at the end. Finishing with “Always on my mind.” Fab night, sang every song, left with a hoarse voice, but well worth it!!!

What a stonking good show this was. Ricky is very much an entertainer as well as a singeing songwriter and his wife Lorraine has a hell of a good voice.

I first saw D&B 2 years ago and was not sure if the live show would be any good or not because I have a few of there albums but would not have described my self as a dedicated fan. I was very wrong then and nothing has changed since I last saw them in 2014 and I will with out doubt look forward to seeing them in 2017 so long as they are touring, I will be there. 5*

Fantastic show from Deacon Blue on Sunday night. The venue was brimming with an excited crowd eager to see the band after decades away from our shores. all the classic songs were delivered with gusto and the crowd never failed to push the band higher.

Awesome night. Highlights were:

Real gone Kid - for the Aussies in the audience

Fergus Sings the Blues

Great show.

great concert with a mixture of old and new songs, however the experience was slightly tainted by the number of drunk people in the audience. It was so bad that Ricky Ross had to tell one woman to pipe down!! I blame the venue who must have wanted to make as much money as possible and paid little regard to the enjoyment of the majority of the audience.

The concert was a great experience, the band played loads of familiar songs as well as some of their newer ones, but all were brilliant. Great atmosphere, good audience participation and great value for money, would definitely go to see them again. Altogether a great night out.

Fab night with a band who just get better & better with time. These guys know how to put on a show. Wonderful atmosphere, a real celebration of life, love and friendship. I think the tour is sold out in many places but if you get the chance of tickets, grab it !

Outstanding concert at Glasgow Hydro on Saturday night. Great mix of old favourites and newer songs. Last saw them in London in the 1980s and the voices, sound, performance and connection with the crowd every bit as good as then. Keep gigging guys - please!!

Hadn't seen Deacon Blue in concert since 1999! Had an amazing time. New material was great and old classics like Dignity, Loaded, Wages Day and Real Gone Kid. Can't wait to see them again. Faultless performance by the band, a must see for any old or new fan.

Words cannot say how it went , Deacon blue are one of the best bands, that you could ever see. As every song is a treasure,and would tell all that you would be silly not go to see them. If I had the money I would go to all their gigs.

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All The Old 45s: Deacon Blue announce unplugged and amplified Greatest Hits UK & Ireland 2023 tour.

Thirty-five years since their debut single, Dignity, and millions of record sales since, Deacon Blue are digging out all their old 45s - the Top 10s, the favourites, the sing-a-long rarities - and touring the UK & Ireland in September / October 2023. The band have always thrived onstage, but they’ve never played gigs quite like this: they’ll perform two sets, with no support. The first half will be an intimate acoustic show, and then they’ll go electric for a raucous trip across their hits.

Vocalist and songwriter Ricky Ross is raring to go on this celebration of Deacon Blue’s brilliant and loyal fans, roaring the Caledonian gospel from the South Coast to the Uplands.  “ We ’ve decided to play a Greatest Hits show with a difference,” he says. “Yes, we intend to play all (or nearly all) the old 45s, but we also want the first half of the evening to be an intimate acoustic performance, the band gathered round the piano with acoustic guitars and whatever Dougie decides to hit. We ’ll play some album tracks and reinterpret a few favourites from the back catalogue. We ’ll take a short break then come back and make a lot of noise. We hope you can be part of that noise.”

Kicking off in the birthplace of pop (as Ross’s recent memoir attests, everything comes back to The Beatles), the tour will launch in Liverpool - which has long held a special place in the band’s collective heart - before travelling the length of the land. Ross, co-vocalist Lorraine McIntosh, Dougie Vipond (drums), Jim Prime (keyboards), Gregor Philp (guitar) and Lewis Gordon (bass) will breathe new life into well-loved songs like Dignity, Loaded, Wages Day, Real Gone Kid, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, Your Swaying Arms, Twist & Shout, Your Town,  The Hipsters and City Of Love. And so many more.

The dates will culminate in a homecoming show at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, a stone’s throw away from the Finnieston Crane, which defined their debut album, Raintown . It’s a suitably celebratory space for the final fling on a special tour of Deacon Blue’s greatest hits - and the rest - as they reel in the years and the ships and the songs, in the hurricane days and  summers and suns, amplified and unplugged, surrounded by friends in cities of love.

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• Fri 23 Aug → Sun 25 Aug Overton, Laverstoke Park Farm Carfest 2024 Beverley Knight, Scouting For Girls, Reef, Furnace And The Fundamentals, Olly Murs…
• Fri 16 Aug Newmarket Racecourse Deacon Blue
• Thu 15 Aug → Sun 18 Aug Stoke-on-Trent, The Trentham Estate Trentham Live 2024 Busted, Jess Glynne, Manic Street Preachers, Deacon Blue
• Thu 25 Jul → Sat 27 Jul Beauly, Belladrum Estate Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival 2024 Deacon Blue, James Arthur, Sugababes, Ocean Colour Scene, Sophie Ellis Bextor…
• Fri 28 Jun Margate, Dreamland Deacon Blue
• Sun 23 Jun Liverpool, Pier Head On the Waterfront Festival 2024 Deacon Blue
• Fri 21 Jun Scarborough Open Air Theatre Deacon Blue
• Wed 19 Jun East Molesey, Hampton Court Palace Deacon Blue
• Wed 1 May Glasgow, Royal Concert Hall Glasgow Gig For Gaza Deacon Blue, Capercaillie, Rura, James Grant, Siobhan Miller…

October 2023

• Sat 14 Oct Glasgow, The OVO Hydro Deacon Blue
• Fri 13 Oct Aberdeen, P&J Live Deacon Blue
• Wed 11 Oct Edinburgh, Usher Hall Deacon Blue
• Tue 10 Oct Edinburgh, Usher Hall Deacon Blue
• Sun 8 Oct Leeds, first direct arena Deacon Blue
• Sat 7 Oct Hull, Connexin Live Deacon Blue
• Fri 6 Oct Manchester, The AO Arena Deacon Blue
• Wed 4 Oct SSE Arena, Belfast Deacon Blue

September 2023

• Sat 30 Sep Brighton Centre Deacon Blue
• Thu 28 Sep The BIC, Bournemouth Deacon Blue
• Wed 27 Sep London, Royal Albert Hall Deacon Blue
• Mon 25 Sep Portsmouth Guildhall Deacon Blue
• Sun 24 Sep Plymouth Pavilions Deacon Blue
• Sat 23 Sep Utilita Arena Cardiff Deacon Blue
• Thu 21 Sep Nottingham, Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Deacon Blue
• Wed 20 Sep Utilita Arena Birmingham Deacon Blue
• Mon 18 Sep Sheffield City Hall and Memorial Hall Deacon Blue
• Sun 17 Sep Newcastle upon Tyne, Utilita Arena Newcastle Deacon Blue
• Sat 16 Sep Leicester, Victoria Park BBC Radio 2 In The Park 2023 Tears For Fears, Soft Cell, Busted, Beverley Knight, Deacon Blue…
• Fri 15 Sep M&S Bank Arena Liverpool Deacon Blue
• Fri 19 May Dundee, Caird Hall A Night For Keith Deacon Blue, The Bluebells, Gary Clark, Andrew Wasylyk

August 2022

• Fri 5 Aug → Sun 7 Aug Sunderland, Mowbray Park Lamplight Festival 2022 Jack Savoretti, Kaiser Chiefs, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Deacon Blue, Tide Lines
• Sat 9 Jul Edinburgh Castle Deacon Blue
• Thu 7 Jul Belfast, Ulster Hall Deacon Blue
• Sat 18 Jun Woodstock, Blenheim Palace Simple Minds Deacon Blue, Caezar
• Fri 3 Jun → Sun 5 Jun Cheltenham Racecourse Wychwood Festival 2022 Sophie Ellis Bextor, Boney M feat. Maizie Williams, The Undertones, Lottery Winners, Thrill Collins…
• Sat 7 May Glasgow, The OVO Hydro Deacon Blue
• Fri 6 May Aberdeen, P&J Live Deacon Blue

December 2021

• Sun 19 Dec Glasgow, The OVO Hydro Deacon Blue
• Sat 18 Dec Aberdeen, P&J Live Deacon Blue
• Thu 16 Dec Belfast, Ulster Hall Deacon Blue
• Wed 15 Dec Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre Deacon Blue
• Tue 14 Dec Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre Deacon Blue
• Sat 11 Dec Inverness Leisure Centre Deacon Blue
• Fri 10 Dec Dundee, Caird Hall Deacon Blue
• Wed 8 Dec Edinburgh, Usher Hall Deacon Blue
• Tue 7 Dec Perth Theatre & Concert Hall Deacon Blue
• Sun 5 Dec O2 Apollo Manchester Deacon Blue
• Sat 4 Dec Sheffield City Hall and Memorial Hall Deacon Blue
• Thu 2 Dec London, Royal Albert Hall Deacon Blue
• Wed 1 Dec O2 Apollo Manchester Deacon Blue

November 2021

• Tue 30 Nov O2 Apollo Manchester Deacon Blue
• Sun 28 Nov Nottingham, Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Deacon Blue
• Sat 27 Nov Hull, Connexin Live Deacon Blue
• Fri 26 Nov Leeds, first direct arena Deacon Blue
• Wed 24 Nov London, Eventim Apollo Deacon Blue
• Tue 23 Nov Plymouth Pavilions Deacon Blue
• Mon 22 Nov Utilita Arena Cardiff Deacon Blue
• Sat 20 Nov M&S Bank Arena Liverpool Deacon Blue
• Fri 19 Nov Birmingham, Resorts World Arena Deacon Blue
• Thu 18 Nov New Theatre Oxford Deacon Blue
• Tue 16 Nov Portsmouth Guildhall Deacon Blue
• Mon 15 Nov Portsmouth Guildhall Deacon Blue
• Sat 13 Nov Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Deacon Blue
• Fri 12 Nov Cambridge Corn Exchange Deacon Blue
• Wed 10 Nov Blackpool Winter Gardens Deacon Blue
• Tue 9 Nov Newcastle upon Tyne, O2 City Hall Newcastle Deacon Blue
• Mon 8 Nov Newcastle upon Tyne, O2 City Hall Newcastle Deacon Blue

August 2021

• Sat 7 Aug → Sun 8 Aug Sunderland, Mowbray Park Lamplight Festival 2021 Kaiser Chiefs, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Deacon Blue, Roddy Woomble, Zuzu…
• Fri 18 Jun Woodstock, Blenheim Palace Simple Minds, Deacon Blue
• Mon 7 Jun London, Royal Albert Hall Deacon Blue
• Sun 6 Jun Brighton Centre Deacon Blue

December 2020

• Fri 4 Dec Glasgow, The OVO Hydro Deacon Blue
• Thu 3 Dec Edinburgh, Usher Hall Deacon Blue
• Tue 1 Dec Blackpool Winter Gardens Deacon Blue

November 2020

• Sun 29 Nov Newcastle upon Tyne, O2 City Hall Newcastle Deacon Blue
• Sat 28 Nov Newcastle upon Tyne, O2 City Hall Newcastle Deacon Blue
• Fri 27 Nov M&S Bank Arena Liverpool Deacon Blue
• Wed 25 Nov Utilita Arena Birmingham Deacon Blue
• Tue 24 Nov Southend-on-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion Deacon Blue
• Sun 22 Nov Brighton Centre Deacon Blue
• Sat 21 Nov New Theatre Oxford Deacon Blue
• Fri 20 Nov Hull, Connexin Live Deacon Blue
• Wed 18 Nov Portsmouth Guildhall Deacon Blue
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• Sun 15 Nov Utilita Arena Cardiff Deacon Blue
• Sat 14 Nov Plymouth Pavilions Deacon Blue
• Fri 13 Nov Cambridge Corn Exchange Deacon Blue
• Wed 11 Nov London, Royal Albert Hall Deacon Blue
• Tue 10 Nov Nottingham, Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall Deacon Blue
• Sun 8 Nov Leeds, first direct arena Deacon Blue
• Sat 7 Nov O2 Apollo Manchester Deacon Blue
• Fri 6 Nov O2 Apollo Manchester Deacon Blue
• Tue 3 Nov Dublin, 3Olympia Theatre Deacon Blue
• Mon 2 Nov Belfast, Ulster Hall Deacon Blue

October 2020

• Sat 31 Oct Aberdeen, P&J Live Deacon Blue
• Fri 30 Oct Inverness Leisure Centre Deacon Blue
• Wed 28 Oct Perth Theatre & Concert Hall Deacon Blue

August 2020

• Sat 8 Aug → Sun 9 Aug Sunderland, Mowbray Park Lamplight Festival 2020 Kaiser Chiefs, Frankie & The Heartstrings, Deacon Blue, KT Tunstall, Roddy Woomble
• Fri 19 Jun Woodstock, Blenheim Palace Simple Minds, Deacon Blue

August 2019

• Sat 31 Aug → Sun 1 Sep Trinity, Jersey, Royal Jersey Showground Weekender Clean Bandit, Ella Eyre, Deacon Blue, Duke (3), The Pirates…

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All The Old 45s: Deacon Blue announces unplugged and amplified Greatest Hits UK & Ireland 2023 tour.

Thirty-five years since their debut single, Dignity, and millions of record sales since, Deacon Blue are digging out all their old 45s - the Top 10s, the favourites, the sing-a-long rarities - and touring the UK & Ireland in September / October 2023. The band have always thrived onstage, but they’ve never played gigs quite like this: they’ll perform two sets, with no support. The first half will be an intimate acoustic show, and then they’ll go electric for a raucous trip across their hits.

Vocalist and songwriter Ricky Ross is raring to go on this celebration of Deacon Blue’s brilliant and loyal fans, roaring the Caledonian gospel from the South Coast to the Uplands. “We’ve decided to play a Greatest Hits show with a difference,” he says. “Yes, we intend to play all (or nearly all) the old 45s, but we also want the first half of the evening to be an intimate acoustic performance, the band gathered round the piano with acoustic guitars and whatever Dougie decides to hit. We’ll play some album tracks and reinterpret a few favourites from the back catalogue. We’ll take a short break then come back and make a lot of noise. We hope you can be part of that noise.”

Kicking off in the birthplace of pop (as Ross’s recent memoir attests, everything comes back to The Beatles), the tour will launch in Liverpool - which has long held a special place in the band’s collective heart - before travelling the length of the land. Ross, co-vocalist Lorraine McIntosh, Dougie Vipond (drums), Jim Prime (keyboards), Gregor Philp (guitar) and Lewis Gordon (bass) will breathe new life into well-loved songs like Dignity, Loaded, Wages Day, Real Gone Kid, I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, Your Swaying Arms, Twist & Shout, Your Town, The Hipsters and City Of Love. And so many more.

The dates will culminate in a homecoming show at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro, a stone’s throw away from the Finnieston Crane, which defined their debut album, Raintown. It’s a suitably celebratory space for the final fling on a special tour of Deacon Blue’s greatest hits - and the rest - as they reel in the years and the ships and the songs, in the hurricane days and summers and suns, amplified and unplugged, surrounded by friends in cities of love.

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Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop rock band formed in Glasgow during 1985. The line-up of the band consists of vocalists Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond. The band released their debut album, Raintown, on 1 May 1987 in the United Kingdom and in the United States in February 1988. Their second album, When the World Knows Your Name (1989), topped the UK Albums Chart for two weeks, and included "Real Gone Kid" which became their first top ten single in the UK Singles Chart and reached number one in Spain. Deacon Blue released their fourth album, Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, in 1993. The band split in 1994, following which Vipond began a career in television. Five years later, the band held a reunion gig, and this led on to a new album, Walking Back Home, with the band now working on a part-time basis. The band released another album, Homesick, in 2001. Though Graeme Kelling died from pancreatic cancer in 2004, the band has continued and 2006 saw Deacon Blue returning to the studio to record three new tracks for a Singles album – including the track "Bigger than Dynamite". Deacon Blue's next album was The Hipsters, in 2012. The band released another album, A New House, in September 2014. Believers, was released in September 2016. A concert recording of their return to the Barrowlands, Glasgow, was released on 31 March 2017. The band's ninth studio album City of Love was released on 6 March 2020. In February 2021, they released their tenth studio album entitled Riding on the Tide of Love to commercial success in the UK. As of 2020, Deacon Blue's total album sales stood at seven million, with twelve UK top 40 singles, along with two number one albums in the UK.

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Foundation of omsk.

The need to build a Russian fortress on the banks of the Irtysh at the mouth of the Om River arose in connection with the steppe nomadic peoples. In particular, with the Oirats, whose tribes in the first decades of the 17th century began to appear within the borders of the Russian state being under the onslaught of their external enemies and as a result of internal civil strife. However, various foreign and domestic political problems of Russia hindered the development and defense of the South Siberian borders.

The situation changed only at the beginning of the 18th century, when the Russian conquest of Siberia intensified. Since Peter I paid great attention to geographical research in the south, the expeditions of that time combined socio-political tasks and tasks of scientific research.

One of such expeditions was led by the Russian military and statesman, associate of Peter I, Major General Ivan Bukhgolts. The goals of the expedition, numbering about 3,000 people, were to search for ore and gold deposits, the discovery of trade routes to India and China, as well as the construction of towns on the Irtysh River.

The expedition left Tobolsk to the south along the Irtysh in July 1715. In the spring of 1716, after a conflict with the Dzungars in the north of today’s Kazakhstan, the remnants of the expedition (about 700 people) withdrew to the mouth of the Om River, where they laid a new fortress named Omsky ostrog (fortified settlement).

According to the census of 1725, 992 people lived in the fortress, in 1742 - 1,092 people. From the first years of its existence, it served as a place of exile for prisoners. After serving hard labor and imprisonment, a lot of them stayed in Omsk for permanent residence.

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Omsk in the second half of the 18th century

The ethnic composition of the region’s population was formed in the process of settling the territory. Russians, Germans, Ukrainians, Poles, Belarusians, and representatives of many other nationalities were sent here to serve or were exiled. The indigenous people of the region were the Siberian Tatars and Kazakhs, who switched to a sedentary lifestyle.

The foundation of the second Omsk fortress took place in 1762. The first fortress, although it occupied a favorable geographical position, was wooden and, by the middle of the 18th century, it was dilapidated. In 1765, new stone fortifications were constructed. The first stone structure of the fortress was the Resurrection Military Cathedral, built in 1773 and preserved to this day.

In the end of the 18th century, the Omsk fortress was one of the largest structures in the eastern part of the Russian Empire, its area was more than 30 hectares. In 1782, it was transformed into a town named Omsk within the Tobolsk Governorate. In 1785, the coat of arms of Omsk was approved.

Omsk became the center of management of the Siberian transport routes and the Siberian Cossack army, which not only guarded the South Siberian borders, but also made a huge contribution to the economic development of the steppe expanses of Kazakhstan, the annexation of Central Asia to the Russian Empire.

Omsk in the 19th century

The fire of 1819 destroyed almost half of the town including the archive and the magistrate of Omsk with all the first archival documents. Therefore information about the life of Omsk in the 18th - early 19th centuries is scarce and fragmentary. In 1825, the population of the town was about 9,000 people.

In 1829, the town’s development plan was approved. It was made by the famous Petersburg architect V.I. Geste, who took the city of St. Petersburg as a model with its wide avenues, huge neighborhoods, fountains, cast-iron bridges, and an abundance of green spaces.

The composition of the population of Omsk was not quite usual. In the middle of the 19th century, since Omsk was the center of the military and civil administration, the proportion of the military in the local population reached about 60%.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (one of the greatest psychological novelists in world literature), who served a term of hard labor in the Omsk prison in 1850-1854, in a letter to his brother gave Omsk the following description: “Omsk is a disgusting town. There are almost no trees. In summer, heat and wind with sand, in winter, a snowstorm. I have not seen nature. The town is dirty, military and highly depraved.”

By the second half of the 19th century, Omsk in its development outstripped many steppe towns and became not only an administrative, but also a commercial and industrial center. In 1861, in Omsk, there were 2,122 houses (31 stone houses), 34 factories and plants, about 20 thousand residents.

In 1892, the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway began, which gave a new impetus to the economy of Siberian towns and positively influenced Omsk. The development of the Trans-Siberian Railway caused an increase in the urban population due to migrants who came to work from the central part of the Russian Empire. According to the 1897 census, 37.3 thousand people lived in Omsk. The town had 14 streets with a total length of more than 140 km and 13 squares.

Omsk in the first half of the 20th century

The beginning of the 20th century was a time of great changes for Siberia. Mass peasant colonization caused a sharp leap in the development of the region’s economy, primarily its agrarian sector, and the Trans-Siberian Railway ensured the inclusion of the local economy in the system of the All-Russian and European markets.

Due to its favorable economic and geographical position - at the intersection of the railway and the Irtysh River, in the middle of a vast agricultural territory - Omsk quickly turned into a large transport, trade and industrial center of Western Siberia and Governor-Generalship of the Steppes (Eastern and Central Kazakhstan).

Wholesale trade in bread, butter and other agricultural products was concentrated here. Omsk also became one of the industrial, social and cultural centers of Western Siberia. By 1903, the city’s population grew to 60 thousand people. In 1914, it had about 134.8 thousand residents. Omsk became the most populous city in Siberia.

During the Civil War on the territory of the former Russian Empire, from June 1918 to November 1919, Omsk was the residence of the Supreme Ruler of Russia, Admiral Alexander Kolchak, who declared this city the capital of white Russia opposing red Russia of the Bolsheviks. Soviet power was finally established in the city in 1920.

In the summer of 1921, an event took place that had a decisive impact on the cultural and economic life of Omsk. The functions of the administrative center of Siberia were transferred from it to the city of Novonikolaevsk (future Novosibirsk). In 1934, Omsk became the administrative center of a separate Omsk Oblast.

Over the years of industrialization, Omsk became one of the largest centers for agricultural engineering in the USSR. The metal-working industry also developed at a rapid pace. In 1939, Omsk numbered more than 288 thousand people.

During the Second World War, about 200 industrial enterprises were evacuated to Omsk, as well as 60 hospitals, dozens of educational institutions, theaters, museums, and hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Omsk after the Second World War

In the post-war years, new enterprises were put into operation in Omsk, all existing factories and plants were reconstructed and expanded. The industrial potential of the city was also strengthened by the Omsk oil refinery, the largest in the country. In connection with the rapid development of industry, especially petrochemical enterprises, the ecological situation deteriorated. The concentration of harmful substances in the air sharply increased. In 1964, the population of Omsk was about 702 thousand people.

In the 1970s-1980s, Omsk developed rapidly. In 1975, the city’s population exceeded 1 million. The most pressing problem was the ecological situation. Omsk was in the top 10 cities of Russia in terms of environmental pollution. Another problem that required an immediate solution was the development of passenger transport. The capacity of Omsk streets was exhausted, and therefore the construction of the subway became an urgent issue.

The economic crisis that gripped Russia after the collapse of the USSR had a negative impact on the economy of Omsk and the region as a whole. There was a significant decline in industrial production, construction volumes fell, and unemployment rose. A lot of organizations of the defense complex, research institutes, and design bureaus found themselves in a deep crisis without the state defense order.

The share of mechanical engineering and metalworking, light industry, and, to a lesser extent, chemical and petrochemical, forestry and woodworking industries decreased. At the same time, the share of the fuel industry, energy, and construction materials industry began to grow.

In the 2000s, Omsk again became one of the most important economic centers of Western Siberia with a developing mechanical engineering, petrochemical industry, various branches of the woodworking, construction industry, and a highly productive agro-industrial complex. In recent years, Omsk has also acquired the features of one of the largest Siberian centers of entrepreneurship and banking/financial activities.

Architecture of Omsk

On the street in Omsk

Author: Tim Brown

Yak-9 fighter aircraft in front of the aerospace engineering company Polyot in Omsk

The Omsk Cadet Corps

Author: Stanislav Katsko

Omsk - Features

Omsk is located in the south of the West Siberian Plain at the confluence of the Om River into the Irtysh, about 150 km from the border of Russia with Kazakhstan. About 60% of all residents of Omsk Oblast live in Omsk. The City Day of Omsk is celebrated on the first Saturday of August.

The city’s coat of arms is very similar to the first coat of arms of Omsk approved by Empress Catherine II in 1785. It depicts a part of the brick fortifications, which symbolizes the reason for its foundation as a fortress and the center of the Siberian defensive line.

Omsk belongs to the temperate climatic zone with a continental climate of the forest-steppe of the West Siberian belt. It is distinguished by an abundance of sunlight. The average air temperature in January is minus 16.3 degrees Celsius, in July - plus 19.6 degrees Celsius. The highest wind speeds are observed in winter and spring, which is the reason for frequent snow and dust storms.

In the past, the ecological situation in Omsk was very unfavorable. Since 2011, the city’s environmental development rating has increased significantly. This was the result of large-scale modernization of many large industries (including the Omsk oil refinery). Today, road transport is the main source of air pollution in the city.

The level of pollution of the Omsk rivers - Irtysh and Om - remains consistently high. Swimming in them is prohibited. While industrial effluents are becoming more environmentally friendly, sewers are releasing waste products including diesel fuel and petroleum products into the rivers. Dust raised by dust storms is also a serious problem for the city as it contains a lot of harmful substances including lead.

The city’s industry is based on oil refining, petrochemistry, chemical industry, mechanical engineering (production of aerospace equipment, armored vehicles, agricultural equipment). Omsk is a major transport junction - the Trans-Siberian Railway runs through the city from west to east, and the navigable Irtysh River crosses it from south to north. Omsk Airport offers regular flights to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tyumen, Surgut, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk, Salekhard, Kazan, Krasnodar, Sochi.

The unfinished subway of Omsk has become famous in Russia thanks to its only one fully built station. Its construction began back in 1992. However, due to funding problems, the completion of the first line was postponed numerous times. In 2019, it was finally decided to permanently stop construction. For local residents, because of the long wait for the completion of the construction, the Omsk metro symbolizes unrealizable hopes, they talk about it with irony.

In Omsk, there are practically no buildings higher than 50 meters, according to this parameter it is one of the lowest cities with a population of over one million. 130 architectural monuments are concentrated in the central part of the city, almost half of the total number.

Main Attractions of Omsk

Dormition Cathedral - the largest church in Omsk located in the very center of the city. The original church was built in 1891-1898. In 1935, it was completely destroyed. In 2005-2007, an exact copy of the building was restored in its original place. This is one of the most beautiful buildings in Omsk. At night, the building is illuminated and looks especially majestic. Tarskaya Street, 7.

Irtysh Embankment - the main walking street of Omsk with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River. Built in the middle of the 20th century, the embankment was reconstructed in the 2000s. You can walk along the alley on foot, ride rollerblades or a bike.

Merchant Batyushkin’s Mansion (1902). This architectural monument is located on the Irtysh Embankment. It is also known as the Kolchak’s House because Alexander Kolchak, the Supreme Ruler of Russia, lived in this building in 1919. One part of the building is occupied by the registry office of the Central District of Omsk. The Center for the Study of the History of the Russian Civil War is also open here. Irtyshskaya Naberezhnaya Street, 9.

Omsk State Museum of History and Local Lore - one of the oldest museums in Siberia and Russia founded in 1878. In total, this museum has over 200 thousand various objects of cultural, historical and artistic value. The museum is especially proud of such exhibits as the cast-iron figures of the Chinese lions Shi-Tzu, presented to the museum from China in 1895, as well as the skeleton of a woolly mammoth almost 3 meters high. Lenina Street, 23?.

Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts named after M.A. Vrubel - one of the largest museums of fine arts in Siberia. It has collections of foreign and Russian art from antiquity to the present day. In total, there are over 22 thousand works by painters, graphic artists and sculptors, as well as more than 1.5 thousand rare folios.

Walking through the exhibition halls, you can admire the canvases of Shishkin, Aivazovsky, Surikov, Repin, Serov, Vereshchagin. The exhibition of rare icons dating from the 17th-20th centuries is of constant interest among visitors, as well as a unique collection of jewelry made of precious metals found in the Scythian and Sarmatian burial mounds. Two buildings of the museum are located at Lenina Street 3 and 23.

In November 2019, a new exhibition was opened in a historical building at Muzeynaya Street, 4 - the exhibition of art of the 20th-21st centuries. The Hermitage-Siberia Center is located here too - the first representation of The State Hermitage Museum (the second-largest art museum in the world) beyond the Urals.

Chokana Valikhanova Street - a pedestrian street located in the historic part of Omsk. The street is decorated with abstract architectural forms, flower beds, wrought-iron lanterns. The walking area ends with an observation deck with a picturesque view of the Irtysh River.

Museum of Kondraty Belov . The museum of this landscape painter born in Omsk can be found in a picturesque wooden house, which is considered one of the most interesting architectural monuments of Omsk. The exposition tells about the life and work of Kondraty Belov, as well as about the history of the building itself.

In total, this museum has about 700 exhibits. The permanent exhibition also includes works by Kondraty Belov’s son Stanislav and paintings by some other local artists. In addition, temporary exhibitions of contemporary Omsk artists are regularly held here. Chokana Valikhanova Street, 10.

Plumber Stepanych Monument - an unusual sculpture located in the center of Omsk, which you can literally stumble upon while walking along Lenin Street between the houses #12 and #14. Leaning out of the hatch, the plumber is depicted as realistic and life-size as possible. It is among the most photographed monuments in Omsk. There is a similar sculpture in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Lyuba Monument . This sculpture, located on the opposite side of Lenin Street from the monument to the plumber Stepanych, is especially loved by Omsk residents and tourists, who love to be photographed against its background.

This beauty in a lace dress with a neckline and a crinoline sitting on an openwork bench and reading a novel had a real prototype - Lyubov (diminutively Lyuba or Lyubasha) Gasford, the wife of the Governor-General of Siberia, who lived in Omsk in the 19th century and died at a young age due to illness. One of the streets of Omsk and the park are named in her memory. She is a local symbol of femininity and beauty.

Omsk Fire Tower - a picturesque architectural monument built at the beginning of the 20th century. Inside the tower there are museum expositions dedicated to the local fire brigade and the history of tower construction. Internatsionalnaya Street, 41?.

Park of Culture and Rest named after the 30th anniversary of the Komsomol - a popular place for walks, recreation and entertainment of Omsk residents and tourists, which has retained “the spirit of the Soviet era” in its name. Today, on an area of 73 hectares, several zones have been organized, various types of recreation are presented. There are walking alleys, ponds, water activities, for example, riding on hydro-scooters.

The ice town is open in winter, the Return of the Dinosaurs exhibition - in summer. The “House Upside Down” exposition is also popular with tourists. This park is a place for mass festivities, city celebrations and events. Maslenitsa, Christmas, City Day, and other holidays are celebrated here. Maslennikova Street, 136.

Natural Park “Bird Harbor” - a specially protected area located on the path of bird migration in the central part of Omsk. During autumn flights, up to 3 thousand birds stop here for rest. It is a great place to enjoy nature, walk along the eco-trail, and observe the life of birds. The park is situated in the floodplain on the left bank of the Irtysh River next to the Victory Park on Yeniseyskaya Street.

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Bogdan Khmelnitsky Monument in Omsk

Lenin Monument in Omsk

Churches of Omsk

Chapel of St. George in Omsk

Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Omsk

Cathedral of the Nativity in Omsk

Sights of Omsk

Fountain with frogs in the park next to the main building of the Agricultural Academy in Omsk

Author: Alexey Pavlov

Church of St. Nicholas in Omsk

Exaltation of the Holy Cross Cathedral in Omsk

Author: Stanislav Vosinsky

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