Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of central Russia northeast of Novosibirsk. It is a major river port and an industrial center.
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- proper noun a city in
Russia , centre of Tomskoblast .
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Examples
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a number of prisoners with whom he had worked as a WPA secretary in Tomsk during the war.
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Gar is about 100 miles from Seversk, a city formerly known as Tomsk, which hosted the
PC Advisor News 2010
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Gar is about 100 miles from Seversk, a city formerly known as Tomsk, which hosted the Siberian
PC World 2010
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Its population of 630,000 includes the secret satellite city of Seversk, formerly known as Tomsk-7 and seven miles to the north, which houses strategic uranium and plutonium plants and remains shut to Westerners.
Signs of the Times 2009
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The Soviet regime created new industrial centers such as Tomsk and Novosibirsk, but Siberia and the Russian Far Eastern regions remain largely unindustrialised, having traditionally served as a raw materials and energy base.
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In Tomsk, asphalt conjoins gravel, gravel becomes mud mud becomes pond & frog, then potholes back to asphalt again.
Black Swan, Pink PP-5: an Unfortunate Soviet-Style Cooperative Venture Marc Vincenz 2011
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Ms. Pirozhkova graduated in 1930 from what is now Tomsk Polytechnic University in Siberia and later moved to Moscow.
Antonina Pirozhkova, 101, preserved memory of husband, writer Isaac Babel Matt Schudel 2010
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An investigation by The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the explosive hacked emails from the University of East Anglia were leaked via a small web server in the formerly closed city of Tomsk in Siberia.
So what do we call this? The ‘Warm War?’ - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009
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The closest orchestra was in Tomsk, eighteen hundred kilometers away, so the score played through the verdigris-encrusted horn of a gramophone.
No Escape: Getting Out Of The Gulag Sammy Perlmutter 2010
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Prisoners 'Camps, Tomsk, June 7, 1915, For the Millions of Men Now Under Arms 1 (15 September 1915):
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