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The everyday context of Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk Scientific Center of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is considered based on memoirs the first Siberian female academics - P.Y. Kochina, T.I. Zaslavskaya, N.I. Pritvits, R.L. Berg, O.N. Marchuk. The memoirs by M.I. Cheremisina are for the first time introduced into scientific circulation. The everyday life of Akademgorodok is studied from the point of view of women’s social memory using the methodologies of gender history, history of everyday life, history of memory. Important factors in rooting women scholars in the scientific town were prospects in research career, obtaining apartments preserving the capital’s residence, special food supply, freedom and democracy in communication and cultural life. The concentration of intellectuals in Akademgorodok, their daily close communication at work and leisure caused that, firstly, the habitual understanding of the service role of women was already «challenged» by the idea of equal status with men, and secondly, in the rather narrow and isolated space of human contacts of the town, the «load» on marital ties increased. At the background of the food and housing crisis in the country, the everyday life of Akademgorodok is assessed by female scientists in a highly positive way, up to the claims that this is the best place to live in. The idea of creating competitive advantages of the new city of science according to the recipe of using the «matrix» levers of the Soviet command and distribution system for the first decade turned out to be successful.