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TOMSK

This article appears in Volume V26, Page 1064 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: THE-TOO
TOMSK , a town of Western Siberia,
capital
  of the 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 city of Siberia, exceeding even Irkutsk in population and commercial importance. The
great
  Siberian highway from Tyumen to Irkutsk passes within 54 M. (by branch railway to Taiga) of Tomsk, which is the terminus of the navigation by steamer from the Urals to Siberia. It has, moreover, communication by steamer with
Barnaul
  and Biysk in the Altai. The town is not an administrative centre, like so many Russian cities, but an entrep6t of wares. Before 1824 it was a mere
village
 ; but after the discovery of gold in the
district
  it grew rapidly. It is built on two terraces on the right bank of the Tom, and is divided into two parts by the Ushaika. The best building is the university. The
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 institute, a
cathedral
  (finished in 'goo), public libraries and scientific
societies
  (naturalist, geographical, medical, musical, &c.). The city was founded in 1604.
TOM-TOM, or Tam-TAM, a native Indian and Asiatic word, reduplicated and onomatopoeic in form, for a drum, hnce often loosely applied to the various types of primitive drum used for purposes of religious excitement, war, signalling, &c.. by savage tribes throughout the world. The
term
  is applied strictly to the metal gongs of the Far
East
 , which are flat disks with a shallow rim.


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