Tyumen
Tyumen
Тюмень | |
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City[1] | |
Postal code(s)[9] | |
Dialing code(s) | +7 3452[10] |
OKTMO ID | 71701000001 |
City Day | Last Sunday of July[2] |
Website | www |
Tyumen (
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. It 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.
Etymology
In Turkic and Mongolic languages, "Tümen/Түмэн" means a myriad, or ten thousand. Etymologically connected to the Tuman River that delineates sections of the borders between North Korea, Russia, and China.
Geography
Tyumen is located in
The river
Climate
Tyumen has a strongly humid continental climate (Köppen climate classification Dfb) with warm, somewhat humid summers and long, very cold (though average by Siberian standards) winters. The weather in the region is very changeable, and the temperature in town is always higher than in the surrounding area by a few degrees. The town area also attracts more precipitation. The average temperature in January is −16.7 °C (1.9 °F), with a record low of −50 °C (−58 °F) measured in February 1951. The average temperature in July is +18.6 °C (65.5 °F), with a record high of +38 °C (100 °F).
The average annual precipitation is 457 millimeters (18.0 in). The wettest year on record was 1943, with 581 millimeters (22.9 in), and the driest was 1917, with only 231 millimeters (9.1 in).[20]
Climate data for Tyumen (1991–2020, extremes 1885–present) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 5.6 (42.1) |
7.3 (45.1) |
17.1 (62.8) |
30.7 (87.3) |
34.9 (94.8) |
36.8 (98.2) |
38.0 (100.4) |
37.4 (99.3) |
31.2 (88.2) |
24.1 (75.4) |
12.8 (55.0) |
9.0 (48.2) |
38.0 (100.4) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | −11.0 (12.2) |
−7.7 (18.1) |
0.4 (32.7) |
10.0 (50.0) |
18.5 (65.3) |
23.1 (73.6) |
24.4 (75.9) |
21.6 (70.9) |
15.2 (59.4) |
7.5 (45.5) |
−3.2 (26.2) |
−9.2 (15.4) |
7.5 (45.5) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | −15.1 (4.8) |
−12.9 (8.8) |
−4.9 (23.2) |
4.3 (39.7) |
12.0 (53.6) |
17.0 (62.6) |
18.7 (65.7) |
16.1 (61.0) |
10.0 (50.0) |
3.3 (37.9) |
−6.6 (20.1) |
−12.9 (8.8) |
2.4 (36.3) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −19.2 (−2.6) |
−17.6 (0.3) |
−9.8 (14.4) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
5.8 (42.4) |
11.1 (52.0) |
13.4 (56.1) |
11.2 (52.2) |
5.6 (42.1) |
−0.2 (31.6) |
−9.9 (14.2) |
−16.6 (2.1) |
−2.2 (28.0) |
Record low °C (°F) | −46.2 (−51.2) |
−43.7 (−46.7) |
−38.4 (−37.1) |
−23.2 (−9.8) |
−10.2 (13.6) |
−1.9 (28.6) |
0.7 (33.3) |
−1.0 (30.2) |
−8.6 (16.5) |
−26.7 (−16.1) |
−41.0 (−41.8) |
−49.2 (−56.6) |
−49.2 (−56.6) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 21 (0.8) |
15 (0.6) |
22 (0.9) |
24 (0.9) |
44 (1.7) |
61 (2.4) |
86 (3.4) |
60 (2.4) |
45 (1.8) |
37 (1.5) |
34 (1.3) |
25 (1.0) |
474 (18.7) |
Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) | 32 (13) |
40 (16) |
37 (15) |
8 (3.1) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
1 (0.4) |
9 (3.5) |
22 (8.7) |
40 (16) |
Average rainy days | 0.4 | 0.2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 117 |
Average snowy days | 24 | 19 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 0.2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 20 | 23 | 126 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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80 | 76 | 70 | 62 | 58 | 65 | 72 | 77 | 77 | 77 | 80 | 80 | 73 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 68.2 | 123.2 | 167.4 | 243.0 | 272.8 | 300.0 | 328.6 | 238.7 | 165.0 | 102.3 | 69.0 | 55.8 | 2,134 |
Source 1: Pogoda.ru.net[21] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: Climatebase (sun, 1933–2011)[22] |
History
The
Tyumen stood on the "Tyumen Portage", part of the historical trade route between Central Asia and the Volga region. Various South Siberian nomads had continuously contested control of the portage in the preceding centuries. As a result, Siberian Tatar and
By the beginning of the 18th century, Tyumen had developed into an important center of trade between Siberia and China in the east and Central Russia in the west. Tyumen had also become an important industrial center, known for leatherworkers, blacksmiths, and other craftsmen. In 1763, 7,000 people were recorded[by whom?] as living in the town.
In the 19th century, the town's development continued. In 1836, the first
By the end of the 19th century, Tyumen's population exceeded 30,000, surpassing that of its northern rival Tobolsk, and beginning a process whereby Tyumen gradually eclipsed the former regional capital. The growth of Tyumen culminated on August 14, 1944 when the city finally became the administrative center of the extensive Tyumen Oblast.
At the outbreak of the Russian Civil War in 1917, forces loyal to Admiral Alexander Kolchak and his Siberian White Army controlled Tyumen.[citation needed] However, the city fell to the Red Army on January 5, 1918.
During the 1930s, Tyumen became a major industrial center of the
Rich oil- and gas-fields were discovered in the Tyumen Oblast in the 1960s. While most of these lay hundreds of kilometers away, near the towns of Surgut and Nizhnevartovsk, Tyumen was the nearest railway junction and so the city became their supply base while the railway was extended northwards.[26] As the result of this economic and population boom, with tens of thousands of skilled workers arriving from across the Soviet Union between 1963 and 1985, the rapid growth of the city also brought a host of problems. Its social infrastructure was limited and the lack of city planning has resulted in uneven development, with which Tyumen has continued to struggle.
Administrative and municipal status
Tyumen is the
City divisions
Tyumen is divided into four administrative okrugs: Kalininsky, Leninsky, Tsentralny, and Vostochny.
Government
City government
The legislative authority of Tyumen is the City Duma. In addition to legislative activities, the City Duma appoints the Head of the Tyumen City Administration, who is the chief executive officer of the city.
Oblast government
Since Tyumen is the administrative center of the oblast, all the governing bodies of the oblast are located in the city. They include the elected Legislative Assembly (Duma) of Tyumen Oblast, which also confirms the appointment of the Governor of Tyumen Oblast, who is nominated by the President of Russia.
Demographics
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1897 | 29,500 | — |
1926 | 50,252 | +70.3% |
1939 | 79,205 | +57.6% |
1959 | 150,195 | +89.6% |
1970 | 268,526 | +78.8% |
1979 | 358,992 | +33.7% |
1989 | 476,869 | +32.8% |
2002 | 510,719 | +7.1% |
2010 | 581,907 | +13.9% |
2021 | 847,488 | +45.6% |
Tyumen's population grew steadily from the 16th century through the 19th century. However, when the Trans-Siberian Railway arrived at the end of the 19th century, the town's rate of population growth was greatly boosted. Tyumen rapidly became the largest town in the region, with about 30,000 inhabitants by the beginning of the 20th century. Tyumen again experienced rapid population growth with the coming of World War II. The evacuation of workers from factories in central Russia in 1941 more than doubled Tyumen's population to 150,000.[citation needed]
In the 1960s, the discovery of the rich oil and gas fields in Western Siberia caused the city's population, which had not been forecast to exceed 250,000 inhabitants that decade, to swell to almost half a million. After the growth of the 1960s, a period of population stability lasted until 1988, when economic depression hit the Soviet Union. The city's population in 1989 was 476,869, according to the census of that year. However, within five or six years Tyumen was again a major economic center with a rising population. By 2002, Tyumen's population had risen to 510,719. Further population growth (mainly due to migration and the incorporation of surrounding settlements) meant that by 2021 Tyumen's population increased to 847,488 inhabitants.[14]
Ethnic groups
While the population of Tyumen includes people from over a hundred different ethnicities, most belong to one of the following ethnicities:[27]
Ethnicity (2010) | Population | Percentage |
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Russians | 448,186 | 84.4% |
Siberian Tatars | 53,984 | 6.1% |
Ukrainians | 9,312 | 1.7% |
Azerbaijanis | 6,153 | 1.1% |
Others | 36,788 | 6.7% |
Religion
As of 2009[update], there are over ten operational Orthodox temples (both newly built and historical), two mosques (both newly built), one synagogue, and one Roman Catholic church in Tyumen (St. Joseph's Church).
Orthodox Christianity
While the state religion of the Russian Empire was Orthodoxy, this religion historically prevailed in Tyumen.[clarification needed] In 1616, Trinity Monastery was established in Tyumen by Nifont of Kazan. In 1709–1711, this monastery was rebuilt in stone by the order of Filofey Leshchinsky, the first Metropolitan of Siberia. In 1761, the Tyumen Religious School was established. Overall, from 1708 to 1885, twelve stone Orthodox churches of different size, and two monasteries were constructed in Tyumen.
During Soviet times, two of the churches were completely destroyed, but the rest remained. As of 2008[update], most of them are accessible and operating.[28] Some operational churches are also under restoration. Tyumen Religious School was reopened in 1997.
Other religions
Despite the predominance of
All of the aforementioned religions operate cultural centers in Tyumen. There are also several other religious bodies with a few adherents in Tyumen.[clarification needed]
Tyumen Trinity Monastery was built with special permission of Peter the Great. At the time, the construction of stone buildings outside Saint Petersburg was prohibited.[citation needed] The Church of Savior Uncreated was visited by Crown prince Alexandr (later Alexander II) during his Siberian tour.
Economy
Tyumen is an important service center for the gas and oil industries in Russia. Due to its advantageous location at the crossing of the motor, rail, water and air ways and its moderate climate Tyumen was an ideal base town for servicing the oil and gas industry of the West Siberia. As a result, today Tyumen is a center of industry, science, culture, education and medicine. Many large oil and gas companies such as
There are numerous factories, engineering companies, oil industry service companies (KCA DEUTAG and Schlumberger), design institutes, shipyard and other oil servicing companies located in Tyumen.
Transportation
Railway
Tyumen railway station was built in 1885. Currently the station administratively belongs to the Tyumen Division of Sverdlovskaya Rail Road. The station is located in the center of the city. At the regional level, the station services three directions to Yekaterinburg, Omsk, and Tobolsk. The railroad to Yekaterinburg has been electrified since 1980.[citation needed] At the international level, the station services passage to (Trans-Siberian Railway): Poland, Germany, China, Mongolia, and Azerbaijan.
Additional stations within the city territory include: Tyumen North, Tyumen yard, Voynovka yard.
Public transportation
Public transportation in Tyumen is dominated by both municipal bus services and by numerous private operators (marshrutkas), which account for nearly a third of all transport capacity. The city's bus fleet is in process of modernization and expansion, with newly acquired Russian buses replacing the severely aged Soviet models.
Tyumen is a major hub for intercity bus service, centered on the bus terminal, which was constructed in 1972, and greatly expanded between 2006 and 2008.[citation needed]
Air transportation
Tyumen is served by the international
The city has a regular service to a large number of Russian towns, including, Moscow (9 flights a day),
.Road
Tyumen is divided by the
In addition, the road network was planned before the fall of the Soviet Union, and in its current state, it can operate normally only in the scheme which includes public transportation only. Compact planning of the city center prevents expansion of main roads; congestion coming from the city periphery moves slower and slower as it approaches the town center. To date, the road network serves about 200% above planned capacity, which leads to numerous traffic jams and high accident rates.
Since 2002, city and regional authorities have undertaken numerous initiatives to improve Tyumen's road network, but due to the continued growth of private automobile ownership rates, these efforts have only had short term positive effects. To date, a complex transport infrastructure reconstruction project is being directed by Regional Administration.[29] In January 2015, a paid parking program and prohibition of vehicle access for non-residents began.[citation needed]
- Total length of the city roads: 925 kilometres (575 miles) (Jan 2009).[30]
- Total number of cars: 380,000 of 1,176,441[31] total in Tyumen Oblast (as of March 2015[update][32]), previous count 151,000 (Jan. 2008)
Cityscape
Historically, Tyumen occupied a small area on the high bank of the
When viewed from above, present-day Tyumen appears to be a collection of low-rise towns with occasional clusters of tall buildings. Two areas of the city, Yamskaya Sloboda and Republic Street are noted for their historic character. These areas are dominated by old brick and wooden merchant houses and buildings, with the occasional intrusion of mid-century Soviet low-rise buildings.
Bukharskaya Sloboda is a historic residential area on the low bank of the Tura river. This area is mostly made up of very old one and two-storey wooden buildings. The area is part of the Historical Centre on the city and has a mostly Muslim population. Low bank Dormitories is a cluster of standard 9-storey buildings was built on reclaimed land east of Bukharskaya Sloboda – Zareka and Vatutina.
The area to the east of the historical town centre built between 1948 and 1978 and is mostly 4 and 5-storey buildings. Earlier buildings in this area have individual designs, but the later buildings have a rectangular style. This area contains most of the political and business activities of the town.
The Old Dormitories area features standard 5-storey blocks of flats constructed in the 1960s and 1970s at the west and east extremities of the city. However, today this area is actually in the town centre. While there are almost no variety in the area's architecture, this area has the most greenery in the city and the best social infrastructure.
The New dormitories area features clusters of standard tall buildings constructed after 1980 at the south and south-east edges of Tyumen. This area is considered[by whom?] to be the worst place to live in the city.[citation needed] The area is remote, badly planned, and has very poor social infrastructure.[citation needed]
In 2022, the Ministry of Construction published an updated rating of the new urban digitalization index. Tyumen entered the top three cities with a population of 250 thousand to a million people.[33]
Architecture
Tyumen is not characterized by any particular architectural style. The town was built without planning 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. Many of the wooden buildings located in the historical part of the city are considered culturally valuable.
Society and culture
Leisure and entertainment
Tyumen has many cinemas and clubs.[citation needed]
Literature and film
A writer closely associated with the city is the children's writer Vladislav Krapivin.
Museums and art galleries
Museums and art galleries in Tyumen include the Tyumen Museum of Local Lore, the Tyumen Museum of the Fine Arts, Museum of Kolokolnikov estate and the Medical History Museum.
Music
The town has its own philharmonic orchestra and the Tyumen Music hall hosts performances.
Sports
Many Soviet and Russian sportsmen started their careers in Tyumen youth sport, including Soviet cyclists Sergey Uslamin, Yury Korotkikh, and Oleg Polovnikov
Tyumen has a national level ice hockey team, soccer team and futsal team.
Important ice hockey and soccer teams are:
Education
Higher education
In 1964, Tyumen Industrial Institute was founded to supply the oil industry with a qualified local workforce.[citation needed] Most students are not counted in the city population since they are non-residents of the Tyumen city according to Russian law.
Libraries
There are about fifty public libraries in Tyumen.[citation needed]
Twin towns - sister cities
Tyumen is
- Brest, Belarus (1999)
- Celle, Germany (1994)
- Daqing, China (1993)
- Houston, United States (1995)(suspended)[35]
Notable people
Natives of Tyumen
- Yevgeni Bushmanov, association football player and coach
- Yuri Aleksandrovich Gulyayev, opera singer
- Vladislav Krapivin, children's books writer
- Boris Krasin, composer
- Tamara Toumanova, ballerina and actress
- Anastasiya Kuzmina, Olympic biathlete
- Viktor Leonenko, association football player
- Alexander Zhuravlyov, Russian general
- Vladilen Mashkovtsev, writer
- Irina Mataeva, soprano
- Nikolay Pereverzev, futsal player
- Abraham Walkowitz, painter
- Ksenia Sukhinova, Miss World 2008
- Andrei Vasilevskiy, professional hockey player
- Anton Shipulin, Olympic biathlete
- Alena Shishkova, Russian model
Other
- Tolochin, born in Tyumen
- Nikolai Chukmaldin, merchant and enlightener
- Georg Wilhelm Steller, German scientist
See also
References
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g Law No. 53
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- ^ a b "Неожиданный поворот: на должность врио главы администрации Тюмени назначили Руслана Кухарука". May 31, 2018.
- ^ a b c "Geography of Tyumen (city proper), January 1, 2010. The City Government of Tyumen". Archived from the original on June 27, 2010. Retrieved May 11, 2010.
- ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
- ^ "Database of statistical indices. Tyumen Oblast's municipal formations". Archived from the original on April 3, 2015. Retrieved March 21, 2015.
- ^ a b c d Law No. 263
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- ^ a b "Оценка численности постоянного населения по субъектам Российской Федерации". Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved September 1, 2022.
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- ^ В Тюмени готовятся к паводку (Tyumen is preparing for the spring flood) Archived June 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Тюмени паводок не страшен (Flooding is no threat to Tyumen)". Archived from the original on September 8, 2012.
- ^ "Уровень воды в р. Тура не превышает паводкового значения (Тюмень) (Water level in the Tura River does not exceed the [normal] spring-flood mark)". Archived from the original on January 17, 2012.
... максимальный уровень паводковых вод в Тюмени составил 9,15 м в 1979 г., а в 2007 г. он составлял 7,76 м.
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Ожидается, что уровень воды в Туре превысит критический и достигнет восьми метров. (The water level in the Tura is expected to exceed the critical level and to reach 8 meters (26 ft)
- ^ http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/bse%7CGreat[permanent dead link] Soviet Encyclopedia
- ^ "Tyumen Climate" (in Russian). Weather and Climate (Погода и климат). Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2021.
- ^ "Tjumen (Tyumen) Climatological Normals 1933–2011". Climatebase. Archived from the original on December 8, 2015. Retrieved November 30, 2015.
- ^ E.M. Pospelov, Geograficheskie nazvaniya mira (Moscow: Russkie slovari, 1998), p. 427.
- ^ http://www.tyumen-city.ru/gorodtumeny/istoriigoroda/pg1/106/%7C Archived April 16, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Official Site of Tyumen City History of the Town Section
- ^ http://www.tsaa.ru/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=28%7C Official Site of the Tyumen State Agriculture Academy Archived March 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Eric Newby, The Big Red Train Ride, Penguin 1980, p.99
- ^ "Итоги::Тюменьстат". Archived from the original on March 7, 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2013.
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Sources
- Тюменская областная Дума. Закон №53 от 4 ноября 1996 г. «Об административно-территориальном устройстве Тюменской области», в ред. Закона №47 от 7 мая 2015 г. «О внесении изменений в статьи 14 и 15 Закона Тюменской области "Об административно-территориальном устройстве Тюменской области"». Вступил в силу с момента официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Тюменские известия", №220, 12 ноября 1996 г. (Tyumen Oblast Duma. Law #53 of November 4, 1996 On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Tyumen Oblast, as amended by the Law #47 of May 7, 2015 On Amending Articles 14 and 15 of the Law of Tyumen Oblast "On the Administrative-Territorial Structure of Tyumen Oblast". Effective as of the moment of official publication.).
- Тюменская областная Дума. Закон №263 от 5 ноября 2004 г. «Об установлении границ муниципальных образований Тюменской области и наделении их статусом муниципального района, городского округа и сельского поселения», в ред. Закона №39 от 7 мая 2015 г. «Об упразднении деревни Бурмистрова Балаганского сельского поселения Викуловского муниципального района Тюменской области и внесении изменений в отдельные Законы Тюменской области». Вступил в силу 1 января 2005 г. Опубликован: "Тюменская область сегодня", №213 (без приложений), 12 ноября 2004 г. (Tyumen Oblast Duma. Law #263 of November 5, 2004 On Establishing the Borders of the Municipal Formations of Tyumen Oblast and on Granting Them the Status of a Municipal District, Urban Okrug, and Rural Settlement, as amended by the Law #39 of May 7, 2015 On Abolishing the Village of Burmistrova in Balaganskoye Rural Settlement of Vikulovsky Municipal District of Tyumen Oblast and on Amending Various Laws of Tyumen Oblast. Effective as of January 1, 2005.).
External links
- Virtual Chronicle of Tyumen (in Russian)
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). 1911. p. 552. .
- Official website of Tyumen (in Russian)