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Tomsk

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

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 companies. 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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Tomsk

Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names | 2005 | | Copyright

Tomsk, Russia A province and city founded in 1604 on the Tom River from which it takes its name. This may come from the Ket toom ‘river’ or from the Russian tëmnyy ‘dark’, thus ‘Dark River’.

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Tomsk

Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

Tomsk •Basque, Monégasque •ask, bask, cask, flask, Krasnoyarsk, mask, masque, task •facemask •arabesque, burlesque, Dantesque, desk, grotesque, humoresque, Junoesque, Kafkaesque, Moresque, picaresque, picturesque, plateresque, Pythonesque, Romanesque, sculpturesque, statuesque •bisque, brisk, disc, disk, fisc, frisk, risk, whisk •laserdisc • obelisk • basilisk •odalisque • tamarisk • asterisk •mosque, Tosk •kiosk • Nynorsk • brusque •busk, dusk, husk, musk, rusk, tusk •subfusc • Novosibirsk •mollusc (US mollusk) • damask •Vitebsk •Aleksandrovsk, Sverdlovsk •Khabarovsk • Komsomolsk •Omsk, Tomsk •Gdansk, Murmansk, Saransk •Smolensk •Chelyabinsk, Minsk •Donetsk, Novokuznetsk •Irkutsk, Yakutsk

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	Tomsk Explosion Chemical, Russian Officials Maintain Transcript from: Morning Edition; 4/8/1993
	NUCLEAR SAFETY: CONFLICITING APPRAISALS OF TOMSK EXPLOSION Newspaper article from: Europe Energy; 4/23/1993
	NUCLEAR SAFETY: TOMSK RADIOACTIVE LEAK NO DANGER TO EC, COMMISSION SAYS Newspaper article from: Europe Environment; 5/4/1993