"GRUZOVOZOFF" branch office in Tomsk


Address:
240a Frunze Prospect Str., 634021, Tomsk, Russia


Telephone/Fax:
+ 7 (3822) 22-92-99, 22-92-98, 22-92-97, 24-21-11, 24-36-97


E-mail:
tomsk@gruzovozoff.ru


Open hours:
Monday - Friday: 9:00 - 19:00
Saturday: 10:00 - 16:00
Sunday closed


Head of the branch office:
Alexander Uvarov

Tomsk, central city of the Tomsk Region, is situated southeast to the West Siberian Plain on the right bank of the Tom River. The city was founded in 1604 by a decree of Tsar Boris who ordered to choose a place for the future city, to mark it on a drawing, to clear the ground and to build a town. In spring of 1604 two hundred Cossaks led by V. Tyrkov and G. Pisemsky came to these lands. They decided to build a burg on the ledge of a high river bank. Three sides of the ledge, later called the Voskresenskaya Mount, were abrupt and protected by quagmires and a small Ushayka River. To protect the northern, most dangerous part the Cossaks constructed a high wall of sharpened posts. A new settlement appeared on the land of a local Turkic duke Toyan who had acquired Russian allegiance by promising to Tsar Boris to render assistance in the strengthening the power of Russia in Siberia. The fortress of Tomsk resisted incursions of the Kirghiz and other steppe people. Following the foundation of Yeniseisk and Krasnoyarsk cities, Tomsk lost its significance as a boundary fortress. In 1804 Tomsk was chosen to be the administrative centre of a freshly established province and a new stage of his history began. A magistrate, city hall, administrative board and a police office appeared in the centre of the city. In the wooden part of the city many stone buildings were constructed, among them churches, administrative buildings, followed by houses of prosperous citizens. The Tomsk province occupied a very large territory including the present-day Altai region, the regions of Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, East Kazakhstan, Tomsk and a part of the Krasnoyarsk region. The most rapid growth took place in 1830s when gold mines were developed intensively in the Tomsk and Yeniseisk provinces. At the end of the 19th - the beginning of the 20th centuries Tomsk had the highest cultural and social level in comparison with other Siberian towns. Nowadays Tomsk is a large industrial and cultural centre of Siberia. Its main industries are machinery and metalworking, chemistry, timber industry and food processing. There are many monuments of architecture in Tomsk. The 19th century wooden houses enriched with carvings give the city a particular local colour. Historical dates: Since 1719 Tomsk was subordinated to the Yeniseisk province, since 1726 to the Tobolsk province. In 1782 Tomsk became the regional centre of the Tobolsk Viceregency. In 1896 as a part of the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway, a line passed through Tomsk. In 1880 the first university in the Asian part of Russia was founded, in 1896 followed by Institute of Technology, the first higher technical college in Siberia. In 1944 Tomsk gained a status of a regional centre.