Barabinsk is a Russian city, the administrative center of the Barabinsk District of the Novosibirsk Region.

It is located in the southeast of the West Siberian Plain, on Barabinsky Lowland, on the Om River, 302 km to the west of Novosibirsk.

It is a railway station on the Trans-Siberian Railroad.

Barabinsk with the overall territory of 69 sq.km has the population of 30 142 people (as of January 2012).

History of Barabinsk

It appeared in 1893 as a station settlement owing to construction of the Trans-Siberian Railroad. The Barabinsk railway station was opened in 1896. It became the town of Barabinsk in 1917.

The town was named after its location in the Barabinsky Lowland.