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TOMSK , a See also:

town of Western See also:Siberia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, on the Tom, 27 M. above its confluence with the Ob. Pop. (1900), 63,533. Tomsk is an episcopal see and the largest See also:city of Siberia, exceeding even See also:Irkutsk in See also:population and commercial importance. The See also:great Siberian See also:highway from See also:Tyumen to Irkutsk passes within 54 M. (by See also:branch railway to Taiga) of Tomsk, which is the See also:terminus of the See also:navigation by steamer from the Urals to Siberia. It has, moreover, communication by steamer with See also:Barnaul and Biysk in the See also:Altai. The town is not an administrative centre, like so many See also:Russian cities, but an entrep6t of wares. Before 1824 it was a See also:mere See also:village; but after the See also:discovery of See also:gold in the See also:district it See also:grew rapidly. It is built on two terraces on the right See also:bank of the Tom, and is divided into two parts by the Ushaika. The best See also:building is the university. The See also:industries are almost entirely confined to tanning and the manufacture of carriages.

Tomsk has a university (founded in 1888, with 600 students), and archaeological, ethnological, zoological, botanical and mineralogical museums, a technological See also:

institute, a See also:cathedral (finished in 'goo), public See also:libraries and scientific See also:societies (naturalist, See also:geographical, medical, musical, &c.). The city was founded in 1604. TOM-TOM, or See also:Tam-TAM, a native See also:Indian and See also:Asiatic word, reduplicated and onomatopoeic in See also:form, for a See also:drum, h°nce often loosely applied to the various types of See also:primitive drum used for purposes of religious excitement, See also:war, signalling, &c.. by See also:savage tribes throughout the See also:world. The See also:term is applied strictly to the See also:metal gongs of the Far See also:East, which are See also:flat disks with a shallow rim.

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