Koltsovo was founded in 1979 as a settlement near Novosibirsk for employees of the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR. In 2003, Koltsovo was granted a new status of a naukograd, or scientific city. The population of Koltsovo is 10,700.

External links

• Koltsovo - Official website

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