The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Omsk, Russia.
Prior to 20th century
1716 - Omsk fortress established. 1782 - Omsk becomes a city by this time. 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. 1825 - A group of Decembrists are exiled to Omsk. Notable among the exiles was Fyodor Dostoevsky. 1827 - Agricultural research institute established. 1839 - Capital of western Siberia relocated to Omsk from Tobolsk. 1843 - St. Nicholas Cossack Cathedral built. 1876 - established. 1877 - Russian Geographical Society's west Siberian branch established. 1878 - 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. 1917 - 25 April–7 May: Congress of Kazakhs of the Akmolinsk Oblast held.
1918 - November: Provisional All-Russian Government headquartered in Omsk. 1919 Kazakh newspaper Kazakh Sozi published in Omsk. 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 - established. 1934 - City becomes part of the Omsk Oblast. 1935 - Assumption Cathedral demolished; Pioneer's Square laid out. 1937 - 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 - 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 founded. Leonid Polezhayev becomes governor of Omsk Oblast. becomes mayor. 1992 - Omsk Metro construction begins. 1993 - Omsk State Pedagogical University active. 1994 - becomes mayor. 2000 - City becomes part of the Siberian Federal District.
21st century
2001 - becomes mayor. 2005 - becomes mayor. 2007 Arena Omsk opens. Assumption Cathedral reconstructed. 2010 - Population: 1,153,971. 2012 - becomes mayor.
See also Omsk history
Timelines of other cities in the Siberian Federal District of Russia: Novosibirsk
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This article incorporates information from the Russian Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.
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