It is important that these signs of progress in Vladivostok should not detract from the serious urban problems the city was facing, especially in relation to health, sanitation, crime, and public transport shortcomings. Crime flourished along streets which had no form of lighting and poor health and disease were related to the lack of an adequate sewerage system for the inhabitants. Also the only hospital in Vladivostok belonged to the military and had to share its overcrowded facilities with an ever expanding civilian population, a clearly unsatisfactory arrangement (Augustovskii and Dudko, 1985). By the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution this population had reached 130,224, as the city prepared to experience a marked change in its character and fortunes. The next chapter explores Tomsk’s final phase of distinctive architectural development before Soviet uniformity was imposed on the cities of the Russian Empire.