Tomsk Oblast
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Tomsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia. It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Tomsk. Populat
A department store in Bakchar, Tomsk Oblast in the 1930s
Postage stamp depicting the oblast, issued in 2009
Oblast Administration building in Tomsk, 2000
Closed city
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A closed city or town is a settlement where travel or residency is restricted. In the Soviet Union, closed cities were quarantined for research and military purposes. Many of them have stayed closed i
Tomsk Oblast
…divided into four cities and sixteen districts. The four administrative cities are the administrative center of Tomsk, Kedrovy, Strezhevoy, and the closed city of Seversk. Tomsk Oblast, part of the wider region of Siberia, is almost entirely taiga. Approximately 85% of the oblast is forested, with Siberian…
Central entry checkpoint to Seversk, a closed city in Russia's Tomsk Oblast, 2010
A checkpoint in Zheleznogorsk, a closed city in Russia's Krasnoyarsk Krai, 2011
A view of housing units in Severomorsk, a closed town that serves as the headquarters of the Northern Fleet in Russia's Murmansk Oblast, 2010
A street in Snezhinsk, a closed town in Russia's Chelyabinsk Oblast, 2006