Town-planning analysis of university campus location in large cities of Siberia

The article discusses the university infrastructure in large Siberian cities. University campuses are classified depending on their spatial organization and location in the city.Criteria are used for the evaluation of urban planning of university campuses, that determine the location of universities. Depending on a distance between campuses and academic buildings, university campuses are distinguished between low, medium and high degrees of distribution. University campuses are divided into universities locating at the center, center boundary and periphery of the city.Based on the proposed classification and town-planning analysis of academic buildings and campuses, the types of spatial structures of university campuses are determined for such large cities of the Siberian Federal District as Tomsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Omsk, Barnaul, Kemerovo, Irkutsk.According to the town-planning analysis, the high distribution of universities is mostly often found in Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo. Universities with low and medium distribution are typical for Barnaul, Irkutsk, and Tomsk.