TOMSK

tŏmsk, Rus. tômsk, city (1989 pop. 502,000), capital of Tomsk region, W central Siberian Russia, on the Tom River. It is a major river port and freight transit point. Machine tools, electric motors, ball bearings, instruments, and chemicals are made there. Founded in 1604 around a fort built by Boris Godunov, Tomsk was a major Siberian trade center until bypassed by the construction of the Trans-Siberian RR in the 1890s. It is a major educational center of Siberia, with a university (founded 1880) and a medical school (founded 1888).

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books on: Tomsk  - 635 results

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Elites and Democratic Development in Russia
Book by Anton Steen, Vladimir Gel'Man; Routledge, 2003
Subjects: Democracy--Russia (Federation), Elite (Social Sciences)--Russia (Federation), Political Leadership--Russia (Federation), Post-Communism, Russia (Federation)--Politics And Government--1991-
...twenty in-depth interviews with members of Tomsk regional elites and local experts, newspaper...I formed a list of leading positions in Tomsk regional political and economic life...this list with regional experts, such as Tomsk political journalists, activists of political...
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Siberia and the Exile System - Vol. 2
Book by George Kennan; Century Co., 1891
Subjects: Siberia (Russia)--Description And Travel, Siberia (Russia)--Exiles
APPENDIX E THE TOMSK FORWARDING PRISON SOME time after the publication...de Windt -- visited one or more of the Tomsk prisons, and wrote to the London Pall...said, among other things, that "the Tomsk prison, as graphically described in the...
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An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires
Book by James S. Olson, Lee Brigance Pappas, Nicholas C. J. Pappas; Greenwood Press, 1994
Subjects: Ethnology--Russia--Dictionaries, Ethnology--Soviet Union--Dictionaries, Russia--Ethnic Relations--Dictionaries, Soviet Union--Ethnic Relations--Dictionaries
...SAGAI. See SAGAI and KHAKASS. TOMPON. See EVEN. TOMSK TATAR. The Tomsk Tatars are part of the larger collection of Siberian Tatars * . They live today near Tomsk in southern Siberia. The Tomsk Tatars descend from...
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Siberia in the Seventeenth Century: A Study of the Colonial Administration
Book by George V. Lantzeff; University of California Press, 1943
Subjects: Siberia (Russia)--Politics And Government, Soviet Union--Colonies--Administration
jurisdiction of Tomsk, while Verkhoturie, Pelym, Turinsk...and the Makovskii ostrog. 17 South of Tomsk was the Russian southern frontier, constantly...strong and hostile tribes of Kirghiz. Thus Tomsk by its strategic position protected the...
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Managing Impressions with Information Technology
Book by Jon W. Beard; Praeger, 2004
Subjects: Communication In Organizations, Electronic Mail Messages, Intranets (Computer Networks), Psychology, Industrial, Videoconferencing
...Sovkhoz, P/S Moscow Director ______ ________ Distance Education, Project Director E Tomsk Dom. Small Hotel Owner P/S Tomsk Tomsk Radio Systems, IS Developer E Tomsk Tomsk State University, E Tomsk k Russian-American Exchan...
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journal articles on: Tomsk  - 51 results

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Learning Java INTERNATIONALLY Using WebCT
Journal article by Parviz Partow-Navid, Ludwig Slusky; T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), Vol. 27, 1999
Subjects: California State University (Los Angeles)--Curricula, Distance education--Curricula, Java (Computer program language)--Study and teaching, Tomsk Poytechnic University--Curricula
...involving the Center for Newly Independent States Studies (CNISS) at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA) and Tomsk Polytechnic University (TPU) in Russia. The CNISS director had the overall responsibility for project management. The CSULA...
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Local Administration of Social Assistance Programs in Russia (1)
Journal article by Burton Richman, Raymond Struyk; International Journal of Public Administration, Vol. 25, 2002
Subjects: Municipal government--Russia, Public administration--Analysis, Russia--Politics and government, Welfare reform--Russia
...the sample. The four municipalities--Tomsk (population, 480,000), Perm (1 million...Novgorod and Arzamas are in European Russia, Tomsk in Siberia, and Perm in the Urals. The...percent live further east and north of Tomsk. Nevertheless, we make no claim that...
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The Development of a Residential Real Estate Market in Russia
Journal article by Andrew T. Allen, Tatyana Y. Ovsyannikova, Denis K. Prazukin, Elaine Worzala; Journal of Real Estate Literature, Vol. 12, 2004
Subjects: Housing, Market research, Mortgages, Real estate, Russia, Studies
...in home prices. One of these areas is Tomsk, which is located in the geographical...This paper examines the housing market in Tomsk and focuses on the severe affordable housing...Results clearly show that for the typical Tomsk family, homeownership is not a realistic...
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Cross-Cultural Service Learning: American and Russian Students Learn Applied Organizational Communication
Journal article by Betsy Stevens; Business Communication Quarterly, Vol. 64, 2001
Subjects: Business communication--International aspects, Cross-cultural studies--Analysis, Distance education--International aspects, Organizational communication--Study and teaching
...a party for children at an orphanage in Tomsk, Russia. Students worked in teams and...experience teaching for three months in 1998 at Tomsk State University, one of Russias premier...Although they exhibited typical ESL problems, Tomsk students were fluent in English and had...
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PEASANT PIONEERING: RUSSIAN PEASANT SETTLERS DESCRIBE COLONIZATION AND THE EASTERN FRONTIER, 1880s-1910s
Journal article by Willard Sunderland; Journal of Social History, Vol. 34, 2001
Subjects: Agricultural colonies--History, Migration, Internal--Personal narratives, Peasantry--History, Village communities--Emigration and immigration
...who resettled either to Western Siberia (Tomsk province in particular) or to the Far...pain of losing two children on the road to Tomsk in 1892; 37 and another Poltavets, Pantalei...of it. As one newly arrived settler in Tomsk put it, "we have all kinds of room out...
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magazine articles on: Tomsk  - 49 results

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Nuclear Chaos
Magazine article; Popular Science, Vol. 245, August 1994
Subjects: Accidents, Commonwealth of Independent States, Environmental aspects, Nuclear accidents & safety, Nuclear energy, Nuclear power plants, Nuclear weapons, Pollution, Radioactive wastes, Testing, USSR, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Waste disposal
...across the breadth of the motherland. Tomsk-7, Arzamas-16, Chelyabinsk-70...plutonium are stored at Chelyabinsk and Tomsk, enough to make 15,000 new warheads...Sverdlovsk, Angarsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Tomsk. No one seriously believes that Russia...
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A Step-by-step Approach to a Global Fissile Materials Cutoff
Magazine article by Steve Fetter, Frank Von Hippel; Arms Control Today, Vol. 25, October 1995
Subjects: Arms control, Negotiations, Nuclear weapons
...shut down. The remaining three--two at Tomsk-7 and one at Krasnoyarsk-26--continue...costing perhaps $10 million per year for the Tomsk and Krasnoyarsk facilities. By comparison...enrichment facilities at Sverdlovsk-44, Tomsk-7, Krasnoyarsk-45 and Angarsk produce...
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U.s., Russia Reach Agreement for Plutonium Site Inspections
Magazine article; Arms Control Today, Vol. 24, April 1994
Subjects: International relations-US, Mikhailov, Viktor, Nuclear weapons, O Leary, Hazel, Plutonium, Russia, United States
...Amarillo, Texas, and the Russian facility at Tomsk-7. In preparation for these inspections...purpose production re actors, two at Tomsk-7 and one at Krasnoyarsk-26, to provide...replacing heat and power now generated by the Tomsk reactors by using gas turbines and the...
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Who Speaks for Siberia?
Magazine article by Hal Kane; World Watch, Vol. 15, March 2002
Subjects: Oligarchy--Russia, Politics--Russia, Siberia--Politics and government
...The students are representatives of the Tomsk Ecological Student Inspection (TESI...natural resource inspector in the whole of Tomsk, a province in western Siberia. Now there are hundreds. TESI was founded at Tomsk State University in August, 1999. Its...
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U.s., Russia Agree to Phase-out of Nuclear Weapons Reactors
Magazine article; Arms Control Today, Vol. 24, July 1994
Subjects: Chernomyrdin, Viktor, Gore, Albert Jr, Nuclear weapons, Plutonium, Russia, Treaties, United States
...2000" its three dual-use reactors at Tomsk-7 and Krasnoyarsk-26 that produce both...sources such as natural gas turbines at Tomsk and a coal-fired facility at Krasnoyarsk...include on-site inspections not only at Tomsk-7 and Krasnoyarsk-26, but also at...
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newspaper articles on: Tomsk  - 88 results

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Emails That Rocked Climate Change Campaign Leaked from Siberian 'Closed City' University Built by KGB; Met Police and 'Other Agencies' Investigate Kremlin Involvement in Releasing Emails
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 6, 2009
Subjects: University of East Anglia
...web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia. The leaks scandal has left...brick building in a snowclad street in Tomsk. The original internet link was quickly...server is believed to be used mainly by Tomsk State University, one of the leading academic...
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Climate Change Emails 'Leaked by KGB College'
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 6, 2009
Subjects: Computer crimes, Electronic mail systems--Environmental aspects, Email--Environmental aspects, Global temperature changes, Universities and colleges--Russia
...web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia. The leaks scandal has left...internet server in a red brick building in Tomsk. The original internet link was quickly...confidential information. Computer hackers in Tomsk have been used in the past by the Russian...
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Climate Change Emails 'Leaked by KGB College'
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), December 6, 2009
Subjects: Computer crimes, Electronic mail systems--Environmental aspects, Email--Environmental aspects, Global temperature changes, Universities and colleges
...web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia. The leaks scandal has left...internet server in a red brick building in Tomsk. The original internet link was quickly...comment yesterday. Computer hackers in Tomsk have been used in the past by the Russian...
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Tippling and Talent
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 19, 2008
...comes in the dismal performance of the Tomsk-400 squad at the Russian Team Championships...Dagomys. The events defending champion, the Tomsk team, also took first in the two most recent European Club Cups. However, Tomsk-400 finished ninth in the 12-team field...
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Unification Match on Tap
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 16, 2006
...Russian championship qualifying tournament in Tomsk, which wrapped up earlier this week...Inarkiev. Only the top seven finishers in Tomsk won spots in the Russian national championship...59th Russian First League Championship, Tomsk, Russia Najer Kornev 1. e4 c6 12. exf6...
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encyclopedia articles on: Tomsk  - 5 results

 
 
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Tomsk
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TOMSK tomsk, Rus. tomsk, city (1989 pop. 502,000), capital of Tomsk region, W central Siberian Russia, on the Tom River. It is a major river port and freight transit point, and is a regional headquarters for oil exploration and production...
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Siberia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...and Transbaykal territories, and the Omsk, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Kemerovo, and Irkutsk regions. Lying off Siberia in the...industrial and scientific research center of Siberia), Omsk , Tomsk , Tobolsk , Barnaul , and Novokuznetsk . The wooded steppe and...
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Ob
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...through the W Siberian lowlands to be joined by the Tom River. The middle Ob flows northwest through the swampy forests in the Tomsk and Narym regions and then is joined by the Chulym, Ket, and Irtysh rivers. The lower Ob consists of the Great Ob and the...
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Chulym
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Siberian Russia. It rises in the eastern slopes of the Kuznetsk Alatau and flows N and W through Krasnoyarsk Territory and Tomsk region into the Ob. Its lower course is navigable. Another Chulym River, 140 mi (225 km) long, in SW Siberia, feeds Lake...
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Tom
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...rising in the Alatau range, S Siberian Russia. It flows N through the Kuznetsk Basin past Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo, and Tomsk into the Ob River. It is navigable from Novokuznetsk. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University...


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