Tomsk is a fairly large Russian city located on the territory of Siberia and the banks of the Tom River. It is the center of the region of the same name, as well as an important agricultural, scientific and industrial city. As of the beginning of 2014, the population of Tomsk was 557, 179 thousand people, it was founded in 1604.
Geographical position
The area occupied by Tomsk is 294.6 square kilometers, thus the area of the population of one territorial unit of the city is 1.891 thousand people. The difference between the capital of the Tomsk region and Moscow is 3 hours. The city is part of the UTC + 7 zone, while the Russian capital is in UTC + 4.
The peculiarities of the geographical location of Tomsk include its location on the West Siberian Plain and the spur of the Kuznetsk Alatau. About 50 kilometers from the city, the Tom river flows into the more full-flowing Ob. The natural zone, to which Tomsk belongs, is taiga, and near the city there are forests and swamps, as well as small forest-steppe.
Tomsk is united into one urban agglomeration with the city of Seversk, which is located not far from the capital of the region and was previously a closed settlement called "Tomsk-7".
How to get to Tomsk
Not far from the city is the Golovino airport, from which regular communication is established not only with Moscow and St. Petersburg, but also with Surgut, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Yekaterinburg, Nizhnevartovsk and even other states popular among tourists - Egypt, Vietnam, Turkey, Thailand and others. … This message greatly facilitates the way to popular holiday destinations for Russians, since they do not have to fly first to Moscow, and then to resorts.
From the Yaroslavsky railway station of the Russian capital to Tomsk, a branded train number 038Н "Tomich" departs, which, however, will follow to the terminal station for a rather long time - 55:09 hours. No other railway routes from Moscow have been opened yet. If you need to get to Tomsk with the help of Russian Railways, but from St. Petersburg, you will first have to get to the capital, and then just go from the Leningradsky railway station to Yaroslavsky, where you change to the next train. Direct communication between the two cities has not yet been opened.
If you want to come to Tomsk by car, then you will need to stock up on both time and patience, since the distance between the two cities is 3500 kilometers, which will run through Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod, Cheboksary, Kazan, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan, Omsk and Novosibirsk, as well as near the border of Russia with Kazakhstan. From the capital, you will first need to leave the Entuziastov highway, then onto the M77 highway, then on the M7, then on the M5, then on the P254, A1, M51 highways, then again on the P254 and P255.
