1,206-CITY ATLASSOURCE-BACKED CITY REFERENCE
Russia
Compare this sourced profile of Tomsk, Russia before planning. Stable fields identify the place; confirm current transport, access and opening details with official sources.
01What the data says — and does not say
This page separates the checked GeoNames row for Tomsk—574,002, Asia/Tomsk, and source coordinates—from live travel claims. Those fields identify and compare the record; they do not prove current transport, accessibility, census totals, or a City Atlas Club visit.
Wikidata's localized description: city in and administrative center of Tomsk Oblast, Russia.
02This city's dataset fingerprint
The source row behind Tomsk is GeoNames ID 1489425. Its recorded administrative path is Tomskiy Rayon → Tomsk Oblast → Russia, and GeoNames classifies the place as a first-order administrative seat. Tomsk occurs once as a primary city label in this atlas sample; the numeric ID remains the durable source key if names change. The city row itself was updated 2026-04-14; that date belongs to the source record, not to every transport or visitor detail in the real destination.
Within the fixed 1,206-record atlas, Tomsk ranks 973 by recorded population. Inside the 39 selected Russia entries it ranks 28; inside the 125 entries in its broad region it ranks 87. Its 574,002 population value is 0.89 times the 648,213 median for the country cohort and 0.86 times the 664,046 regional median. Tomsk sits in the lower half of this atlas's selected Russia entries. Tomsk's recorded value stays within one quarter of the country-cohort median used here. These comparisons describe this selected dataset only; they are not current census rankings or official urban-area boundaries.
Tomsk's three nearest other atlas coordinates are Kemerovo at 145.372 km with 558,973 recorded people; Novosibirsk at 208.455 km with 1,612,833 recorded people; Novokuznetsk at 334.289 km with 539,616 recorded people. The closest-to-farthest distance spread is 188.917 km. Compared with Kemerovo, Tomsk's recorded population is 1.03 times as large. Against Tomsk, Kemerovo follows Kuzbass → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Novokuznetsk instead of Asia/Tomsk, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is below Tomsk's. Against Tomsk, Novosibirsk follows Novosibirskiy Rayon → Novosibirsk Oblast → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and lower longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Novosibirsk instead of Asia/Tomsk, and carries the same first-order administrative seat class. Its recorded population is above Tomsk's. Against Tomsk, Novokuznetsk follows Kuzbass → Russia in the source. Its point has lower latitude and higher longitude; it belongs to the same selected Russia cohort, uses Asia/Novokuznetsk instead of Asia/Tomsk, and carries second-order administrative seat rather than first-order administrative seat. Its recorded population is below Tomsk's. Its nearest-neighbor distance ranks 863 of 1,206 from shortest to longest in the same snapshot. Tomsk's nearest-coordinate gap belongs to the wider half of atlas distances. This pattern can reveal whether other catalog references are geographically close, but it cannot establish whether a border crossing is possible or practical, or whether rail, road, fare, or journey-time connections exist. Read as one record signature, GeoNames 1489425, the coordinate pair 56.5005 / 84.9822, country rank 28 of 39, and neighbor GeoNames 1503901 at 145.372 km bind Tomsk to a reproducible comparison. That combined key distinguishes the row; it is not a recommendation or evidence of a physical connection.
Tomsk's reference point is 56.5005° north and 84.9822° east. The IANA identifier Asia/Tomsk is shared by 1 city rows in this catalog, while the GeoNames class PPLA is shared by 429 rows. Tomsk's row carries both second- and first-order administrative labels. Tomsk's point falls in the higher-latitude coordinate band used by this atlas's row checks. Tomsk's time-zone field defines the narrower catalog cohort; its place class is shared more broadly. GeoNames supplies no elevation for Tomsk, so the profile preserves that missing value instead of guessing terrain. Together these fields form a reproducible identity check for this page, not a claim about walkability, climate or accessibility.
03Nearby atlas references
Tomsk's closest other entries in this atlas are Kemerovo (145.372 km), Novosibirsk (208.455 km), Novokuznetsk (334.289 km).
04Verify before you book
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GeoNames updated the row 2026-04-14; the atlas checked the dataset 2026-08-04. Available Wikidata fields were verified in the same run.
GeoNames data: CC BY 4.0. Wikidata labels and descriptions: CC0 1.0.