Tomsk
a town in Western Siberia, on the Tom; 2,809 miles E. of St. Petersthe Tom; 2,809 miles E. of St. Petersburg. Situated burg. Situated on the great trade route to Irkutsk, and near the main line of the Siberian railway, it has long been the seat of an important transit trade.
Leather and carriages are manufactured ; and a university was established in 1888. Great part of the town was burned in 1890. Pop. about 117,000. 117,000. The province of Tomsk, ex- Chinese frontier, has an area of 331,159 square miles, more than 2½ times the size of Great Britain and Ireland , and a population about 4,000,000.