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 Tomsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
W Siberia, Russia, seat of the Tomsk Oblast.
Tomsk State University is the first university in Siberia (was founded in 1880).
Prominent Tomsk State University library book reserve is considered to be among the richest in Russia.
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 Russia - Tomsk Region - RussiaTrek.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Region's center is the city of Tomsk, with a population of 500,000 (nearly half of the Region's total).
Tomsk, administrative centre of the region, was built as a fortress on the river the Tom in 1604.
In 1804 Tomsk was the centre of Tomskaya province.
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 UGD Entry for Tomsk, Russia
Tomsk is an ancient academic cultural and industrial city located in the southeast region of West Siberia, on the River Tom, one of the largest tributaries of the River Ob (Pokrovsky et al., 1998).
South of the Tomsk urban area, the elevations of the interfluve areas range from 190 - 210 m a.s.l., while to the north of the area, elevations range from 120-150 m a.s.l.
For a several decades prior to 1930's Tomsk water supply was obtained from the Tom river until the development of industry in the Kuzbass region in upper and middle parts of the Tom river water shed (Dubruovoskaya and Zemstov, 1999).
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 Tomsk Polytechnic University - Institute for International Education
Tomsk Polytechnic University –; a significant state scientific and educational center of Russia – is constantly working at upgrading its educational courses and develops new ones that meet both individual and public requirements.
Russia is a multinational state: except Russians, there are 100 different nationalities to consider Russia to be their homeland.
Tomsk is an educational and scientific centre with rich traditions of high education.
www.intstudy.com /script/univ/tomsk.htm   (995 words)

  
 Tomsk. Girls, Women, Brides dating and marriage agency from city Tomsk, Russia . Gifts and Flowers Delivery
Tomsk is the Russian city situated in the southeast of the West Siberian plain.
Tomsk arose in 1604 as the Russian fortress on the bank of the river Tom.
In 1719 Tomsk was added to the Yenisei province, in 1726 - to the Tobolsk province, since 1782 it is the regional city of the Tobolsk region ruled by governor-general.
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 destination guide - Tomsk - Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Tomsk, a centre of the Tomsk region, is located on the right bank of the Tom river.
In 1629 Tomsk was raised into the status of a centre of the region.
The present Tomsk with a population of 473 thousand is one of the largest industrial, scientific and cultural centres of Western Siberia.
www.cityguides-worldwide.com /Russia/2092.htm   (111 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Old suspicions return to Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Parliamentary elections are being held in Russia next weekend but the recent arrest of an oil tycoon has re-awakened the fears and suspicions of a previous era.
We were ducking into one of Tomsk's coffee shops to defrost our toes and fingers when we saw them - a phalanx of energetic young Russians, striding down the snowy street, flags aloft, with distinctive bright yellow jackets over their winter coats.
Yukos, Mr Khodorkovsky's oil company, is a big player in Tomsk: an important benefactor for the local universities, a weighty contributor to the regional budget and a shareholder in the local flagship TV station.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/3247022.stm   (965 words)

  
 REGIONAL CORNER: TOMSK OBLAST, RUSSIA
The region’s center is the city of Tomsk (population 500,000) and the second largest city is Seversk (population 124,000).
The Tomsk region is rich with natural resources, including oil, gas, hydrocarbons, timber, ores (iron, vanadium, titanium, zirconium, silica sands), and peat.
Maksim Masharuyev is the BISNIS representative in Tomsk.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /BISNIS/bulletin/017Bull6.htm   (549 words)

  
 Questionnaire to a NIS company on trade and investment financing
In Spring, 2004 the banking sector of Tomsk region was represented by 4 local commercial banks, 16 affiliates (most of which include at least several branches) of main Russian banks headquartered in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk and Ufa and the Representative Office of Central Bank in Tomsk region.
Tomsk Innovations Support Center is actively introducing the system of UK Business Angels on the territory of Tomsk region.
Tomsk Leasing Company "Sibliz" was established in order to facilitate the development of leasing as an effective and attractive investment tool for any enterprise in Tomsk region.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /BISNIS/fq2004/surveys/FinanceSurveyTomsk2004.htm   (4089 words)

  
 IEEE in Tomsk & Russia
The Tomsk IEEE Chapter has been established in Tomsk on January 1, 2000.
At present the Tomsk IEEE students without charge participated in joint events in the Student IEEE Branch of the Novosibirsk State Technical University; they have discounts on remembership etc. Thus the students are received the means on they own events.
For the first time in Russia we open the IEEE GOLD program (Graduates of the Last Decade) for young engineers, desiring actively participate in the IEEE activity.
www.comsoc.org /tomsk/en/tieee.htm   (388 words)

  
 Far away Siberian city thrives on high tech, innovations
Tomsk may look as though it is located in the boondocks, but Siberia's academic capital is increasingly using the brains trained in its six universities to power its own high tech revolution and become a haven for innovative companies.
But Tomsk, which was first established by cossacks on marshy land exactly four hundred years ago, is still very much alive and kicking, thanks to the 100,000 students that make up a fifth of its population.
Another Tomsk company, Mikran, which was initially set up on a shoestring by a handful of researchers, now turns out telecommunications equipment and multiplexers.
www.spacedaily.com /2004/040522024639.yhxoz9c8.html   (543 words)

  
 JRL - Russia, Siberia
Chief among them is Tomsk State University, although those devoted to scientific disciplines also have earned their place among the world’s elite, which explains the high number of physicists on my flight out of Moscow.
The names of those from Tomsk who made the ultimate sacrifice are well over 1,000, all listed in a series of plinths that could have served as the model for the Vietnam War Memorial.
Until 10 years ago, Tomsk was a closed city, because of the nearby nuclear complex and because of its status as a center of learning – scientific and otherwise.
www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6033-9.cfm   (1765 words)

  
 Tomsk -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
W (A vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters) Siberia, (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia, seat of the (Click link for more info and facts about Tomsk Oblast) Tomsk Oblast.
It became important as a military center for pacifying the native people and evolved into a regional administrative center.
Prominent Tomsk State University library book reserve is considered to be among the richest in (A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) Russia.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tomsk.htm   (153 words)

  
 Russia
Tomsk yadernyy reported that the Siberian Chemical Combine (SKhK) administration is contemplating privatization of four of the 21 units comprising the combine, including the provisions department, motor vehicle department, railway department, and heat-and-power station.
As a result of the Tomsk FSB counter-intelligence activity, 11 foreigners were expelled from Russia, three of whom were banned from entering the country in the future.
Russia proposes instead to shut down the reactors and build conventional power plants to provide the electric power now generated by the production reactors, including hydroelectric facilities near Zheleznogorsk, at an estimated cost of $230 million, most of which would be paid by the United States.
www.nti.org /db/nisprofs/russia/fissmat/putomsk/skhkdev.htm   (7395 words)

  
 Office of International Programs > Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
She is a member of the Tomsk regional team, which arranges in-service teacher training for the teachers within the Tomsk region.
The city of Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia (in 2004 it will be 400 years old), it's situated in the south of Western Siberian plain, on the banks of the Tom river.
Tomsk region is rich in forests, oil and gas, it has a highly developed mining and machinery industries.
www.uncp.edu /ip/programs/pie1.htm   (889 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - The trusted source for news on Central Asia
In the midst of its battle with the Kremlin, Yukos inaugurated an electrical plant in the Tomsk region.
Russia is very much tempted to strike a strategic, energy alliance with Japan.
Russia needs the American and British oil majors: it's more cost-effective than depending on bank loans or the financial markets.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Central_Asia/FH26Ag03.html   (2298 words)

  
 Partners in Health (PIH) | Russia Tomsk Oblast Project to extend MDR TB treatment model   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
While still suffering from great economic hardship a decade after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia has a large health sector that bears little resemblance to either the developing country model or that of wealthy Western countries.
The MDR TB epidemic is one of many modern plagues that require a sophisticated medical response, as well as active attention to community mobilization and social support.
The collaboration in Tomsk will serve as a stepping stone to an equitable, comprehensive approach to TB treatment in Russia as a whole, and beyond it, to other countries in the region.
www.pih.org /wherewework/russia/tomsk.html   (515 words)

  
 Update on the City of TOmsk
The personnel in most of Tomsk hotels still do not speak English (unless specially indicated in the following list), however there are clear trends towards employing foreign language speaking personnel and the situation may have improved by the time of your visit.
One of the newest and best hotels in Tomsk situated in the central part of the city, close to the main higher educational institutions and the City Garden, in an old style building.
Largest hotel in Tomsk and the only one officially awarded the *** status, situated in a multistory building in proximity to the train and bus station and about 10 minutes drive from the city center.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/Hotels%20in%20Tomsk.htm   (1104 words)

  
 Policymaking Muddle In Russia - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The controversy over the state's attack on the Yukos oil company has revealed this split most clearly, but that is not the only matter at issue between the two camps.
Other examples of underlings' zeal are the governor of Tomsk Oblast searching for new managers for the local oil company while it was still legally owned by Yukos, and the tax service in Yakutia freezing the accounts of another Yukos subsidiary.
One version of the transaction, that it is a loan against future oil deliveries to China, with oil from Yugansk excluded, may be interpreted as a deal to deliver oil over five years, by costly rail deliveries, at an average of $17 a barrel--hardly an attractive deal.
www.forbes.com /home/business/2005/02/16/cx_0216oxan_russia.html   (1366 words)

  
 Chinese Communities in Western Siberia in the 1920s-1930s
The new government of Russia decided to give a new profile to the Union, namely to transform it into a mechanism for the control and 'Bolshevisation' of tens of thousands of Chinese migrants, thus turning it into a solid basis for revolution in the East.
On the 20th April 1920, a congress of the representatives of Chinese Workers' Unions was held in Omsk and a coordinating committee was chosen.
Also, as they accumulated experience of living in Russia, the immigrants could pass on the reputation of places that were good to stay in, especially in the big cities of Western Siberia such as Novosibirsk and Barnaul.
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 Rotary International: News Releases
(TOMSK, Russia — 7 August 2001) A team of six Rotary International volunteers recently arrived in Tomsk, Russia, to lend its expertise volunteering at a local orphanage.
Rotary clubs and the Team to Tomsk have raised more than US$600,000 for orphanages and provided winter clothing essentials for Russian children in 22 communities since the program's inception two years ago.
Jones hopes this is the beginning of a long-term commitment to the Tomsk children.
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 Tomsk, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The postcard below, dated 1913, depicts the synagogue in Tomsk, a city in Siberia.
In 1897, there were about 7,900 Jews in the Tomsk district (about 6.4% of the total population).
At the end of 1969, the Jewish population was estimated at about 5,000.
www.edwardvictor.com /tomsk_russia_main.htm   (44 words)

  
 Seversk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Seversk (Russian: Северск) is a town (since 1956) in Tomsk Oblast, Russia.
As is the tradition with Soviet towns containing secret facilities (Ozersk aka Chelyabinsk-40, Zheleznogorsk aka Atomgrad aka Krasnoyarsk-26, Sarov aka Arzamas-16), the name is actually a P.O. Box number and implies that the place is located some distance from the city of Tomsk (15 km to the NW, in fact).
Seversk is the site of Siberian Chemical Combine (Sibkhimkombinat), founded in 1954.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tomsk_7   (180 words)

  
 Lubavitch News Service - Articles - New Representative to Tomsk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Appointed by Russia's Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, the young couple expects to be leaving their home in Kfar Chabad, Israel, within a few months, and plant new roots in Siberia's frozen soil.
Rabbi Kaminetzki visited Tomsk numerous times, becoming acquainted with this city's Jewish communal needs to help prepare him for this position.
Tomsk is an important city in Siberia, with Jewish population estimated at about 5-6,000.
www.lubavitch.com /Article.asp?Article=520&Section=90   (204 words)

  
 Russian girl Nadezhda from Tomsk, Russia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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Grishin A.M. (Tomsk, Russia); Co-Chair — Honoured Scientist of Russian Federation, professor, Dr. of Sci.
Belov V.V. (Tomsk, Russia); Co-Chair — Vice-Rector on research og Gorno-Altay State University, assistant professor, candidate of sciences Babin V.G. (Gorno-Altaysk, Russia); Scientific Secretary — Senior researcher, candidate of sciences Krainov A.V. (Tomsk, Russia) The members of the Organizing Committee: Alexeyev B.V. — Honoured Scientist of Russian Federation, professor, Dr. of Sci.
(Tomsk, Russia); Goldammer J.G. — professor (Freiburg, Russia); Davidenko E.P. — assistant professor, candidate of sciences (Pushkino, Russia); Domingos X.V. — professor (Coimbra, Portugal); Zinchenko V.I. — professor, Dr. of Sci.
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de /course/meeting/Conference-Details.doc   (1253 words)

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