Review article

The paper presents the results of the study of the Novonikolaevsk-Novosibirsk functional-spatial organization evolution in the context of social-economic transformations of the XX - early XXI centuries. There have been determined the evolution process periods, and the chronological framework and features of the post-Soviet period has been specified. Based on the comparison of functional and spatial transformations in the course of the historical development and during the last decades, the problems of urban development are identified which may subsequently become the basis for formulating the strategic goals of the Novosibirsk urban planning system.