Novoaltaysk (Russian: Новоалта́йск) is a town in Altai Krai, Russia, located on the right bank of the Ob River, in the lower reaches of its right tributary the Chesnokovka, 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) across from Barnaul, the administrative center of the krai.

In 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, Dniprodzerzhynsk Carriage Works was evacuated here from Dniprodzerzhynsk, on the Eastern Front in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

In 1942, Chesnokovka was granted town status and in 1962 it was given its present name.

[3] Novoaltaysk is a major transportation hub and home to one of the ten largest railway station units in Russia.

[citation needed] The town is located at the intersection of railways and highways of federal importance.