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Tobolsk (Russian: Тобо́льск, IPA: [tɐˈbolʲsk]) is a town in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers. Founded in 1590, Tobolsk is the second-oldest Russian settlement east of the Ural Mountains in Asian Russia, and was the historic capital of the Siberia region.
Tobolsk used to be the real capital of Siberia and still today you can see its dazzling white kremlin, European-like paved streets and even a Neo-Gothic church. Other Siberian cities overtook...
- Anna Sorokina
Founded in 1587, Tobolsk was one of Russia’s first Asian outposts and later became the capital of Siberia. The city’s stone kremlin, or walled citadel, is the only one of its kind in Siberia...
Tobolsk, city, Tyumen oblast (region), west-central Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. Founded in 1587, it was one of the chief centres of early Russian colonization in Siberia because it lay along an important river route to the east, but it declined when bypassed by.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Tobolsk is the birthplace of the world famous scientist D.I. Mendeleev, composer A.A. Alyabyev, architect and chronicler S.U. Remezov, painter of the 19th- century Russian realist school V.G. Perov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu.S. Osipov.
Mar 29, 2011 · Tobolsk is an average Russian town located in the middle of the western Siberian plain. It used to be the capital of the whole of Siberia until the 20th century when the Trans-Siberian railway was built just south of here, when Tolbolsk reverted to being a small provincial town.
Dec 10, 2010 · Tobolsk was founded in 1587 by the Cossack leader Daniel Chulkov at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh Rivers, near the site of Yermak's victory. Tobolsk (population around 100,000) is...
