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Tobolsk
[ tuh-bawlsk ]
noun
- a town in the W Russian Federation in Asia, on the Irtysh River at its confluence with the Tobol.
Tobolsk
/ ٲˈɔ /
noun
- a town in central Russia, at the confluence of the Irtysh and Tobol Rivers: the chief centre for the early Russian colonization of Siberia. Pop: 100 000 (2000 est)
Example Sentences
“I understand that the Count comes from a wolf country, and it may be that he shall get there before us. I propose that we add Winchesters to our armament. I have a kind of belief in a Winchester when there is any trouble of that sort around. Do you remember, Art, when we had the pack after us at Tobolsk? wouldn’t we have given then for a repeater apiece!”
When she fails to locate the Romanovs’ last piano in Tobolsk, she reminds herself to “just find a piano with a pure sound … something humble, human and loved.”
“We are building, building, building,” reads a letter in the city of Tobolsk, listing hardships during construction of a railroad through the swamps to western Siberia’s oil fields.
Few characters in Russian history are as well-known as the mystic from Tobolsk in Siberia, whose name is forever linked to scandal.
In December, the fund disclosed an investment totaling $5.05 billion for Sibur to build a petrochemical factory in the Siberian city of Tobolsk, to make precursor chemicals for plastics and synthetic rubber.
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