Bolotnye

Bolotnoye grew around a posting station on the Moscow–Siberian road, in the forested country between the Ob and Tom rivers. Its name comes from the Bolotnaya River. The station has traditionally been dated to 1805; archival records mention it in 1815 as a post station on previously unoccupied ground. Travellers and their horses used the Siberian road to cross the immense distances between the settlements of western Siberia.

The later city of Novosibirsk lies here.