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  Official site of Tomsk Area Goverment :: Regions
In the south it borders with the regions of the Kemerovo oblast, in the north – with the Pervomaisky region, in the east – with the Teguldetsky region and in the west with the Tomsky and Asinovsky regions.
In the north it borders with the Alexandrovsky region and the Tumen oblast, in the east – with the Verkhneketsky, Parabelsky regions and the Krasnoyarsk territory, in the south – with the Novosibirsk oblast, and with the Omsk and Tumen oblasts in the west.
The region borders with the Kemerovo oblast in the south, with the Krivosheinsky and Asinovsky regions in the north, with the Asinovsky and Zyryansky regions in the east, with the Krivosheinsky and Shegarsky regions in the west.
www.tomsk.gov.ru /opencms/en/Regions   (2069 words)

  
 Tomsk Oblast travel guide - Wikitravel
Tomsk is a region in Western Siberia, which borders Omsk Oblast and Tyumen Oblast to the west, Khantia-Mansia to the north, Krasnoyarsk (region) to the east, Kemerovo Oblast to the southeast, and Novosibirsk Oblast to the south.
Tomsk — the capital is a 400 year old quintessential Siberian city of historical importance and famed for its "gingerbread" traditional wooden houses and neoclassical University buildings
The Tomsk region was long an important center of Western Siberia, but lost importance after the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, which passed the region by to the south.
wikitravel.org /en/Tomsk_Oblast   (364 words)

  
 Annotation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tomsk Oblast is situated on Western-Siberian plain in the mid stream of the river Ob.
Total decline in agricultural land in Tomsk Oblast amounted to 1,7 thou hectares: the tillage reduced by 2,1 thou hectares, the fallow land and land under perennial plants increased by 0,4 thou hectares.
The land in northern parts of the oblast is exposed to oil and salt senoman water contamination, as a result of numerous spills, leaks and failures at oil fields, water and oil pipelines.
green.tsu.ru /obzor/annot2.htm   (951 words)

  
 Tomsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Tomsk is well-known for its (gingerbread) carved wooden houses.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tomsk   (213 words)

  
 Overview of Environmental Issues in the Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast is relatively isolated and away from the main population centers, thus not seriously threatening the health of the population, it does negatively impact the surrounding environment through oil and highly mineralized waters (Cenomanian) spills and gas flares.
Tomsk Oblast is falling rocket stages and material from launches at the Baikanur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan.
Tomsk Oblast is a center for engineering and scientific research, and has the opportunity to play an important role in designing and manufacturing pollution control equipment and in providing environmental expertise.
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/bisdoc/010108tomskenviro.htm   (2159 words)

  
 Russia - Tomsk Region - RussiaTrek.com
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.
www.russiatrek.com /r_tomsk.shtml   (327 words)

  
 Case Studies Database   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Abstract: In the Tomsk oblast a series of measures are being implemented to help preserve and develop the traditional ways of life of indigenous small-number peoples of the North, and to revive their traditional economic activities.
In the Tomsk oblast a series of measures are being implemented to help preserve and develop the traditional ways of life of indigenous small-number peoples of the North, and to revive their traditional economic activities.
According to data of the Board of Education of the Tomsk oblast by the 10th of January 2001 22 pupils were studying in the Sel’kup language in the secondary school of Ivantsovo (12 pupils in classes 1-4, 9 pupils in classes 5-9).
lgi.osi.hu /ethnic/csdb/results.asp?idx=no&id=269   (1722 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Tomsk Oblast Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tomsk Oblast is a federal subject of the Russian Federation.
Most of the oblast's 316,900 km² territory is inaccessible because it is covered with taiga woods and swamps.
Tomsk Oblast is rich in natural resources, particularly oil, natural gas, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, peat, and underground waters.
www.ipedia.com /tomsk_oblast.html   (268 words)

  
 Tomsk Oblast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The development of the territory which belongs to the oblast began in the 17th century.
Most of the oblast's 316 900 territory is inaccessible because it is covered taiga woods and swamps.
Tomsk Oblast is rich in natural resources oil natural gas ferrous and non-ferrous metals peat and underground waters.
www.freeglossary.com /Tomsk_Oblast   (339 words)

  
 SCOTT WILSON IN SIBERIA - scottwilson.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tomsk Oblast in Siberia is subjected to temperature changes ranging from —35°C in winter to +35°C the summer months.
Tomsk City is known as the Siberian Oxford with seven Universities.
The Oblast, which covers an area larger than Finland, is also a major producer of oil and gas and a centre of the nuclear industry.
www.scottwilson.com /nm/publish/news_57.html   (674 words)

  
 Tomsk regional state philharmonic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In 1879, when in Tomsk the department of Russian musical society was created, several musicians - amateurs organized a string orchestra, which participated in the concerts, performing small orchestral plays and overtures.In the season 1886-1887 the orchestra commence qualifying symphonic one.
Tomsk symphonic orchestra was then the first and the only professional orchestra in an enormous territory from the Urals to the Far East.The first conductor of the professional association became M.Malomet - autochthon of Tomsk, who was an excellent musician and a personality.
The tours of symphonic orchestra began in the 40' from the trips around the neighbouring cities of Kuzbass and regions of Tomsk oblast.
philharmonic.tomsk.ru /eng/simfon/simfon.php   (486 words)

  
 COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS PROGRAMCommunity Connections 5-year USAID funded program started 2005 which offers home-stay ...
The group comprised 10 representatives from various social services organizations in Tomsk and the Tomsk Oblast.
Two groups, comprising 20 representatives from state educational establishments, community organizations and social services agencies of the Tomsk Oblast, completed a three-week secondment to the United States under the "Community-Based Assistance to Vulnerable Children" initiative.
A further group of 10 specialists (including  representatives of educational institutions, municipal government, the Department for Internal Affairs, TV company TV-2, the Commission for Juvenile Affairs, and the Regional Administrations of the City of Tomsk and the Tomsk Oblast) had also completed a secondment under the "Juvenile Justice" initiative.
www.ccfrussia.ru   (566 words)

  
 Transportation in the Tomsk Oblast
The majority of cargo transportation in the Oblast (61.3 percent) is via  automobiles and trucks.
The planes that fly in the Tomsk region are all Russian-made.
  One of the pipelines extends for 818 km from Aleksandroskoye (in the Tomsk Oblast) to Anjero-Sudjensk (Kemerovo Oblast).
www.bisnis.doc.gov /bisnis/isa/010726tomsktrans2.htm   (2862 words)

  
 Nuclear Communities in Transition: Russia
This shift in policy was caused by increased activity by Minatom on the national level and was related to the fact that there was an inadequate amount of heat for Tomsk during the 1997-98 winter, which was caused by instability of the natural gas supply.
The Tomsk community was not informed and hence was not involved in the decision-making process.
Tomsk public hearings importance consisted in the free access for every Tomsk and Tomsk oblast citizen to be informed about the possibility of the building of a HPNPP, and about the Administration conclusion about the necessity to revise the AST-500 project.
www.ecologia.org /nuclearcommunities/countryevals/russia/tomsk.htm   (1004 words)

  
 Blazons of Tomsk Oblast Towns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Coat of arms of Tomsk Oblast was instituted on May, 1997.
The author of Tomsk Oblast symbols was Alexander Yurievich Akimov.
The new Tomsk blazon was instituted in October, 1998 by City Duma (this blazon was also created by Alexander Akimov).
www.sadcom.com /pins/crests/tomsk.html   (49 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Viktor Kress was elected governor of the oblast in December 1995, when the presidential administration allowed 12 carefully selected regions to hold gubernatorial races before the summer 1996 presidential poll.
In 1990, he was elected to the oblast legislature and became its chairman.
Tomsk Oblast lies in the south-east of the West-Siberian plain.
www.hf.uib.no /Andre/Vesti/tomsk.htm   (528 words)

  
 IRI : Around The Globe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tomsk oblast in Siberia was host to several major surprises during the December 19 parliamentary elections.
Sulakshin, formerly a close associate of Tomsk's powerful Governor Viktor Kress, was considered to be one of the most powerful politicians in Tomsk oblast.
Not only did it finish first in Tomsk, but the 13.83 percent of the vote Yobloko received there was more than double the six percent the party received nationwide.
www.iri.org /pub.asp?id=7676767675   (921 words)

  
 Êîàëèöèÿ | Annual Report 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
To date, the Public Prosecutor of the Tomsk oblast and the Director of the Housing-and-Communal Department of the city are now removed from their office, and the Chairperson of the Tomsk Court of Arbitration was earnestly requested to retire.
The masterclass participants (journalists of Tomsk media outlets) passed through different stages of journalistic investigations: managing official data sources; search for confidential sources; selection of facts and their verification; reliability check of the materials received; conducting disputecontaining interviews; preparation of the story to be published; and legal aspects of journalistic investigations.
During the campaign residents of Tomsk and the oblast had the opportunity to become familiar with anticorruption events conducted in the oblast, outcomes and progress of non-profit organizations’ projects.
coalition.tomsk.ru /english?doc=/english   (3205 words)

  
 American International Health Alliance Portal - AIHA
The Tomsk partners were awarded a sustainability grant in November 2004 to replicate the community health education center in three additional communities and the successful breastfeeding education program as well.
The nurses from Tomsk Rayon conducted a seminar for nurses from the Tomsk Oblast in December 2003 to establish a Council of Head Nurses for the Oblast.
Tomsk partners report that the percentage of women who breast-feed for at least six months is currently 32%.
www.aiha.com /index.jsp?sid=1&id=1026&pid=10   (1887 words)

  
 Siberian Federal District | TOMSK OBLAST | TOURISM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Medical base: mineral water "Shirlinskaya", "Shirsal" medication, peat of Tomsk Oblast, sapropel of Karasevoe and Plakhino lakes; water and a mud-cure institution, physiotherapy and the laboratory of functional methods of research.
At the service there is a training hall, a sauna, a swimming pool, mechanical massage, a billiard hall, a skiing lodge, a conference hall, a cinema hall, a banquet hall, a bar and a garage.
In addition: rent of a peasant's log hut on the lakes, rent of the cross-country vehicle, rent of a snowmobile, a boat, surfing, a water bicycle and fishing equipment.
www.sfd.ru /sfd/ne/eng/tomsk/menu8.htm   (424 words)

  
 ISIREMM: air quality assessment and management information system   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Tomsk is the capital city of the Tomsk Oblast (region), and it is especially known for its wooden architecture and ornate latticework.
The third reason for the selection of Tomsk is that in spite of its provincial status and geography, 6 local Universities give Tomsk a quite modern and intellectual environment which is ready to exploit modern Information Technologies and is used to the Internet for work, study and ordinary life.
Tomsk is representative for many NIS cities that all but for Moscow lack a sufficient local net of environmental monitoring stations to provide conventional information systems with the necessary data for environmental management.
www.ess.co.at /ISIREMM/tomsk.html   (779 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On April 14 an independent commission of four judges selected the winners for the Tomsk Oblast mini-grant competition.
Among the winners was one alumnus of an ECA exchange program with a project from the Tomsk Oblast Regional Organization "Association of American Exchange Program Alumni." Out of 41 applications received, the following nine were selected for funding of which three will be based outside of Tomsk in rural areas.
Ten regions of the Tomsk Oblast will be represented, as well as 20 participants from Tomsk itself.
iatp-old.projectharmony.ru /english/tomsk.html   (604 words)

  
 Tomsk-7
Tomsk-7 is located on the Tom’ river in Tomsk oblast, about 12 km northwest of the city of Tomsk.
The Tomsk region provides a remarkable combination of rich natural resources, developed science and industry, a highly educated labor force, and old cultural traditions.
Tomsk is one of the oldest scientific and higher education centers in Russia.
www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/russia/tomsk-7_nuc.htm   (1719 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, The Role of Environmental NGOs--Russian Challenges, American Lessons: Proceedings of a Workshop ...
One example is the public hearing held in September 2000 on the premises of the Tomsk Oblast Administration.
A Tomsk Oblast public organization, the Wind Rose, was founded in 1992 with the purpose of attracting local attention to environmental problems, to ecologically safe commercial activity, and to ecological education.
The Tomsk Oblast Scout Center is an organization related to tourism and ecological education.
www.nap.edu /openbook/0309076188/html/161.html   (3550 words)

  
 Energy Efficiency in the Chelyabinsk and Tomsk Oblasts: Summary of Findings
This report was developed during a project which began in April 1994 to promote energy efficiency in the Chelyabinsk and Tomsk Oblasts of the Russian Federation.
The economic crisis in the oblast led almost immediately to a reduction in industrial output and the related level of industrial heat consumption.
Metallurgical plants in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk, Zlatoustovsky, and other oblast cities consume a third of the natural gas that is used in the oblast--an amount equal to all of the natural gas used in heating and electricity production--and almost half of all mazut fuel.
www.pnl.gov /aisu/pubs/cheltom.htm   (3797 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.
According to the Tomsk Oblast Prosecutor's Office, Anatoliy Maksimenko, director general of the Prommekhanomontazh nuclear equipment plant located in Seversk, was murdered on 17 January 2002.
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.
www.nti.org /db/nisprofs/russia/fissmat/putomsk/skhkdev.htm   (7395 words)

  
 AIHA Partner Solicitation: Tomsk, Russia
Tomsk Oblast, located in Central Siberia, is a large sparsely populated region endowed with natural resources.
There are sixteen regions and six towns in the Tomsk Oblast, and the city of Tomsk is composed of five municipal boroughs.
The population of the Oblast is nearly 1,000,000, including nearly 200,000 children.
www.friends-partners.org /CCSI/announce/aiha.htm   (438 words)

  
 round3grants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The overall goal of the this component is to decrease spread of HIV/AIDS in the civilian and penitentiary sectors of Tomsk Oblast.
The overall goal of this component is to reduce the incidence and prevalence of tuberculosis in Tomsk Oblast, and assure that all patients with TB have access to effective therapy.
Despite the fact that strong DOTS and DOTS-Plus and nascent HIV prevention programs are in place, in the Tomsk Oblast today, 13.5% of new TB cases are multi-drug resistant, annual TB incidence is 93.7 and the number of HIV cases is rising faster than ever before.
www.aidspan.org /globalfund/grants/round3/exec-russia-subccm-hiv.htm   (1318 words)

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