15 Facts About Tomsk

Tomsk is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, located on the Tom River.

Tomsk-7 received municipal status in 1956 and was renamed Seversk in 1992.

Tomsk is divided into four city districts: Kirovsky, Leninsky, Oktyabrsky, and Sovetsky.

Tomsk has a humid continental climate barely escaping a subarctic classification.

In 2006, Tomsk experienced what might have been its first recorded winds of hurricane force, which toppled trees and damaged houses.

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Tomsk was one of the first cities in Russia to gain access to the Internet, which became available in the early 1990s owing to grants received by universities and scientific cooperation.

Tomsk has a number of prominent institutions of higher education, including:.

Tomsk is a small railway center that is situated on the Tayga—Bely Yar line of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

At the present time, the Tomsk line belongs to the West-Siberian Railway, branch of Russian Railways Corp.

Tomsk has many local cultural institutions including several drama theaters, as well as a children's theater and a puppet theater.

However, Tomsk managed to save some of its churches by transforming them into machine shops, warehouses, archives, and even residential buildings.

Tomsk is well known for its intricate "gingerbread" decoration of traditional wooden houses in the area.

Trud Stadium, in central Tomsk is the base for matches with the FC Tom Tomsk, the city's professional football club.

Tomsk has many local media outlets including the TV2 television station, shut down by the authorities and turned into an internet TV medium, the radio stations Radio Siberia and Echo of Moscow in Tomsk along with several newspapers .

Tomsk is the only non-capital member of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21.