Tomsk is a city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, located on the Tom River. The city's population is about 500,000.
Tomsk is considered one of the oldest towns in Siberia. The city is a notable educational and scientific center with six state universities, over 100,000 students, and the oldest university in Siberia.
Tomsk is in the top 100 in the ranking of the best student cities in the world and ranks third among Russian participants in the ranking after Moscow and St. Petersburg. At the same time, Tomsk ranks sixth in the world in terms of access to education.
Currently, about 560 thousand people live in Tomsk. The city has six state universities and more than a dozen research institutes of the Tomsk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Tomsk National Research Medical Center.
The number of students in Tomsk universities exceeds 60 thousand, that is, every tenth resident of the city is a student. Students from all regions of Russia, as well as from other countries, come to study at Tomsk universities.