Tomsk State University, TSU (Russian: Томский государственный университет full official name: Leading National Research Tomsk State University) is a public research university located in Siberia, Russia. It was founded in 1880 in Tomsk, Russia, and is the oldest university in Russian Asia (in Siberia). TSU opened in 1888 with only one department, the medical faculty, which separated in 1930, now forms the Siberian State Medical University.