Asino

Asino is a city (since 1952) in Russia, the administrative center of Asinovsky district of Tomsk region and Asinovsky urban settlement. The population is 24,351 (2018).

The city is located on the left bank of the Chulym River (Obi tributary), 109 km northeast of Tomsk. The name of the city comes from the name of Asya, which is a diminutive form of the name Xenia. The original settlement, founded in 1896, had the name of the village of Ksenyevka, later the village of Ksenyevsky and was named after the sister of Nicholas II Xenia.

In Asino lived and worked in the editorial office of the newspaper "Prichulimskaya Pravda" writer Vil Lipatov. 8 km from Asino, in the village of Novokuskovo lived writer Georgy Markov, author of the novels "Strogov", "Salt of the Earth", "Siberia".

Industry: woodworking, plywood production.

Education: six secondary general education schools, an orphanage, vocational lyceum, vocational school, Asinov technical school of industrial industry and service.