Former students of Tomsk University residing in Shanghai will be specially interested to learn that this famous Russian institution ik now celebrating its 50th. anniversary.
The Tomsk Imperial Univer shortly after its opening fifty years ago, soon became recognized as one of the main educational centres of Russia and its standard of learning soon placed it on an equal footing: with the other higher educational centres throughout the world. Shortly after its opening the Great Siberian Railway was built,, connecting Europe with the Pacifid.
A number of medical and judicial workers and others who graduated from the University are now living in Shanghai and elsewhere in China, and in order to commemorate th anniversary a special journal "The Siberian Day" has been compiled locally, outlining the growth ang main facts of the institution.
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