Tomsk

Tomsk is best known within Siberia for its surviving wooden architecture, whose carved façades remain a defining part of the city centre. Set on the Tom River in western Siberia, it grew from a 1604 fortress into an important administrative and educational centre. Tomsk State University, founded in 1878 as the first university in Siberia, gives the city a scholarly identity still palpable around its historic campus. Early-20th-century timber houses, including elaborate “lacework” residences, stand alongside merchant-era streets and later Soviet buildings, making Tomsk notably different from many large Siberian cities. Discover other points of interest through webcams located across Tomsk Oblast.

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