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Tyumen is the largest city and the administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located on the Tura River 2,500 kilometers (1,600 mi) east of Moscow.
Tyumen was the first Russian settlement in Siberia.
Founded in 1586 to support Russia's eastward expansion, the city has
remained one of the most important industrial and economic centers east
of the Ural Mountains.
Located at the junction of several important trade routes and with easy
access to navigable waterways, Tyumen rapidly developed from a small
military settlement to a large commercial and industrial city.
The
central part of Old Tyumen retains many historic buildings from
throughout the city's history.
Today Tyumen is an important business center. Tyumen is the transport hub and industrial center of Tyumen Oblast— an oil-rich region bordering Kazakhstan —as well as the home of many companies active in Russia's oil and gas industry.Tyumen is too diverse to be characterized by any particular
architectural style, and it generally has no overall style whatsoever.
The town was built and non-planned for decades and because of that its
architecture is an eclectic mix of buildings of different styles and
eras.
Tyumen's nickname is the Capital of Villages because the most of its
territory is built up by lumber houses. But most of the people who
visited Tyumen as well as a considerable part of its core dwellers
mistakenly consider it is a modern high-rise town due of tall buildings
concentrated along all town arterial roads. Many of wooden buildings
located in historical part of the city had cultural value.
There are numerous museums and art galleries in Tyumen. The best
known are the Tyumen Museum of Local Lore and the Tyumen Fine Art
Gallery which were merged last year by local government decision.
Some of the Tyumen museums:
- Tyumen Museum of Local Lore (Several exhibition halls)
- Museum of the Fine ArtsMuseum of Kolokolnikov estate (Several exhibition halls)
- House of Merchant Masharov
- Medical History Museum
- Museum of Tyumen Agricultural Academy (includes a local lore exhibition, Museum of anatomy; Museum of soil science)