Why come to Tomsk? Well it is namechecked in Tom Lehrer's paean to the purity of mathematical research, the great 'Lobachevsky' (do listen). But the real reason is that is is a small city, and is well placed about a day's travel by train from Irkutsk. It was also so notoriously slandered by the great Anton Chechov, that the town was moved to commission a mocking statue in response to the great writer's calumny. Make sure you don't dub a proud University town
"Tomsk isn’t worth a damn. A boring city…with dull people. A drunken city…with no beautiful women at all"
And it is home to the best collection of Siberian wooden architecture anywhere in Russia. Plus it has trams. What more is not to like.
"Tomsk isn’t worth a damn. A boring city…with dull people. A drunken city…with no beautiful women at all"
And it is home to the best collection of Siberian wooden architecture anywhere in Russia. Plus it has trams. What more is not to like.