On March 9, a section for combating counterrevolution was created under the Omsk Soviet.

By June of the same year, Broz left Omsk to find work and support his family, and was employed as a mechanic near Omsk for a year.

Originally a Cossack born in Ust-Kamenogorsk, Russian Turkestan ( now Kazakhstan ) in a family of Cossack Chorąży and his wife of kazakh origin, Kornilov entered military school in Omsk in 1885 and went on to study at the Mikhailovsky Artillery School in St. Petersburg in 1889. in August 1892, he was assigned as a lieutenant to the Turkestan Military District, where he led several exploration missions in Eastern Turkestan, Afghanistan and Persia, learned several Central Asian languages, and wrote detailed reports about his observations.

During the Imperial era, Omsk was the seat of the Governor General of Western Siberia, and later of the Governor General of the Steppes.

The wooden fort of Omsk was erected on August 2, 1716 to protect the expanding Russian frontier along the Ishim and the Irtysh rivers against the Kyrgyz nomads of the Steppes.

The pinnacle of development for pre-revolutionary Omsk came with the lavish Siberian Exposition of Agriculture and Industry in 1910, for which a complex of buildings and fountains was constructed.

Omsk was proclaimed the capital of Russia, and its central bank was tasked with safekeeping the former empire's gold reserves.

Because it was both far from the fighting and had a well-developed infrastructure, Omsk provided a perfect haven for much of the industry evacuated away from the frontlines in 1941.

In the 1950s, following the development of the oil and natural-gas field in Siberia, an oil-refining complex was built, along with an entire " town of oil workers ", expanding Omsk northward along the Irtysh.

Until the end of the 1990s, political life in Omsk was defined by an ongoing feud between the oblast and city authorities.

In 1716 a fortress was constructed at the confluence of the Om and Irtysh rivers on the orders of sublieutenant Ivan Bugholtz. The fortress would form the nucleus for the development of the future city of Omsk.

By the second half of the 18th century, Omsk fortress was the largest building of any kind in the eastern part of Russia.

The city's rise to providence continued and, when Siberia was once again reorganized in 1822, Omsk became the administrative center of the General Governorship of Eastern Siberia, eclipsing the old center of Tobolsk.

The new governorship was divided into settler populated oblasts around the cities of Omsk, Petropavlovsk, Semipalatinsk and Ust-Kamenogrsk and okrugs, populated by Kazakh nomads.

In subsequent reforms the name of the Oblast was changed repeatedly to The Oblast of The Siberian Kyrgyz ( 1854 ), Akmolinsk Oblast ( 1868 ), and Omsk Oblast ( 1917 ) before finally reverting to the Omsk Governorship in 1918.

Among them was Fyodor Dostoyevsky, who spent four years ( 1850 – 1854 ) at the Omsk prison.

The Siberian Cossack Army was headquartered in Omsk after 1808 and contributed to the development of the city, by the beginning of the 20th century the Cossacks were a dominant component in the society of both the city of Omsk and the surrounding lands, having reached a population of 174 thousand and holding title to five million hectares of agricultural land.

In 1925 the Omsk governorship was dissolved into the newly formed Siberian Krai and again reorganized, this time as an Oblast by order of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on the 7th of December, 1934.

In 1943, Kurgan Oblast was created from a portion of the territory of Omsk.

Their activities resulted in a small revolt in Omsk on December 22, 1918, which was quickly put down by Cossacks and the Czechoslovak Legion, who summarily executed almost 500 rebels.

Omsk is served by the Tsentralny Airport, which offers access to domestic and international ( primarily, German and Kazakh ) destinations, making the city an important aviation hub for Siberia and the Russian Far East.

Omsk is represented nationally by professional association football and hockey clubs, with the latter, Avangard Omsk winning the 2004 National Championship.

Reinforced, the Reds broke through on the Tobol in mid-October and by November the White forces were falling back towards Omsk in a disorganised mass.

Admiral Alexander Kolchak succeeded in creating a temporary wartime government in Omsk, acknowledged by most other White leaders, only for it to fall with the loss of his armies.

Grazhdanskaya Oborona was formed in the Omsk, Siberia, by bandleader Yegor Letov, who was the only one to remain a member throughout the life of the band.

Accompanied by a Polish nobleman called Adam Ignatovich whom he had met in Omsk on his way to Chinese Turkestan, Hendricks arrived in Kashgar in 1885 and remained there until his death.

On August 22, 2005, he was signed by Avangard Omsk of the Super League, leaving Dynamo.

He is supposed to travel under a false identity, but he is discovered by the Tartars when he meets his mother in their home city of Omsk.

Fueled by visitors from Kalachinsk arriving by elektrichkas ( trains ) to Omsk, the Omsk open-air flea markets thrived here.

It was organised in 1990 by Dmitri Khodko and Sergei Govrilov as an attempt to open Omsk to foreigners.

Gazprom Neft was created under the name Sibneft () in 1995 by the transfer of state owned shares in Noyabrskneftegas ( production unit ), the Omsk Refinery ( Russia's largest oil refining complex ), Noyabrskneftegasgeophysica ( exploration ) and Omsknefteprodukt ( oil products distribution network ) from Rosneft.

Although the vehicle entered service in 1955 and in the same year the No. 174 Works located in Omsk began producing the hulls and turrets, the first vehicles were completed in 1957 after the first 249 57 mm twin S-68 guns were produced by the Artillery Works No. 946 located in Krasnoyarsk.

After the overthrow of the Bolsheviks in Siberia by Czechoslovak Legions and Russian officers organizations, the decision to form the Siberian Republic was made on June 29, 1918, in Omsk.

It was thought to have been developed by the KBTM design bureau in Omsk in the late 1990s.

Omsk () is a city and the administrative center of Omsk Oblast, Russia, located in southwestern Siberia from Moscow.

Many trade companies established stores and offices in Omsk, resulting in the construction of the picturesque old district, and contributing to the rapid development of Omsk into a major city.

Omsk became a prime target for the Red Army, who viewed it as crucial to their Siberian campaign, and eventually forced Kolchak and his government to abandon the city and retreat along the Trans-Siberian eastward to Irkutsk.

Administratively, it is incorporated as the city of oblast significance of Omsk — an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.

Municipally, the city of oblast significance of Omsk is incorporated as Omsk Urban Okrug.

* The 3406 Omsk asteroid, which lies in the main asteroid belt, is named after the city.

It is the third largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk and Omsk, with a population of 973, 891 ( 2010 Census preliminary results ).

When, in 1764, The Siberian provinces were organized into two governorships, centered on Irkutsk and Tobolsk, the city of Tara and the fortress of Omsk were assigned to the latter.

By this time Omsk had grown to the size of a small city, however, from 1797 to 1804 it did not possess its own uyezd.

Petropavl (;, not to be confused with Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky ) is a city on the Ishim River in northern Kazakhstan close to the border with Russia, about 261 km west of Omsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Omsk was evacuated on November 14 and the Red Army took the city without any serious resistance, capturing large amounts of ammunition, almost 50, 000 soldiers, and ten generals.

* Siberia ( city of Omsk, Grey Ukraine )

The Region of York signed a " Twinning Agreement " with the city of Omsk, Russia, on August 28, 1997, after it signed a " Friendship Agreement " one year previous.

Semey (), formerly known as Semipalatinsk (, until 2007 ) and Alash-kala ( Kazakh: Алаш-қала / Alaş-qala, 1917 – 1920 ), is a city in Kazakhstan, in the northeastern province of East Kazakhstan, near the border with Siberia, around north of Almaty, and southeast of the Russian city of Omsk, along the Irtysh River.