Tyumen
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By Air
Tyumen is served by the international Roschino Airport located 13 km west of the city.The airport has permit to handle with all types of helicopters.The airstrip is capable to handle with huge aircrafts such as An-22 Antaeus.
By Train
Tyumen Rail Station was founded in 1885.Currently Station Administratively belongs to the Tyumen Division of Sverdlovskaya Rail Road.Station is located in the very center of the Tyumen city in 15 minutes walk south from the city hall. Station services suburban, intercity and international passenger traffic.At the regional level the station services three directions to Yekaterinburg, to Omsk and to Tobolsk. Railroad to Yekaterinburg electrified since 1980.Direct international passenger directions(Trans-Siberian Railway): Poland, Germany, China, Mongolia.Additional stations within city territory: Tyumen North, Tyumen yard, Voynovka yard.
By Bus
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.
By Road
Tyumen has very difficult road scheme.The town is divided by Tura River Tyumneka River and Trans-Siberian Railroad, creating several isolated zones.Seven bridges, one footbridge, five flyovers and five foot crossings connect these zones.In addition, the Tyumen Road network was planned before the fall of the Soviet Union and in its current state, it is capable to operate normally only in the scheme which includes public transportation only.Compact planning of city center prevents expansion of main roads; congestion coming from the city perephery moves slower and slower as it approaches the town center.To date, the road network is congested about 200% above capacity, which leads to numerous traffic jams and high accident rates.Since 2002, city and regional authorities have undertaken numerous initiatives to improve Tyumen road network; due to growth of private automobile ownership, this all had only a short term effect.To date a complex transport infrastructure reconstruction project is being directed by Regional Administration.
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Tyumen Museum of Local Lore
is one of the oldest in Siberia. A prominent researcher and professor, a member of the Russian Geographical Society, Ivan Yakovlevich Slovtsov (1844-1907) was at the cradle of the museum. A couple of private collections of Siberian ancient items laid the foundation for the museum exposition. One of them had been gathered by I. Slovtsov, the other was given by the well-known Tyumen merchant and Maecenas Nikolai Chukmaldin. Initially, the Museum was located in the building of the Alexandrovski vocational college, of which Slovtsov was Director at that time. Since 1922 it is located in the building of the former municipal administration office. Since 1920 till 1930 Pavel Rossomakhin, an archeologist, artist and public figure, was Director of the museum.
Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts
is one of the finest collections of Russian painting from the portraits of the 18th century to Kandinskiy's works. The displays lead the visitor on a walk through times, from the pictures of the painters of "austere style" of the 60th and searches of "the semidesjatniky" to the latest schools of painting and graphics Exhibits inclued exellent examples of the Russian decorative applied art of the 20th century. The collections of miniature sculptures carved from mammon tusk, Tobolsk carving bone, is one of the best museum's treasures. The museum presents the Siberian peasantry art: ornamented and painted distafts, embroidered towels, items of wood carving. The collection of the works of native Siberian tribes preserving archaic features is unique.
Tyumen Puppet Theater
The first performances took place on a professional company in Tyumen, immediately after the war, in 1945.The official status of the regional theater it was much later but in fact it was such and because of their mobility.The entire south and north after the Tyumen region part of the neighboring regions in the 50-80s were familiar with the Tyumen puppeteers.Only in 1972 the troupe has found a real home - a modern building of glass and concrete auditorium with 400 seats.Since that time, one of the traditions of theater productions becomes issue for adult viewers, while the main direction of activity - children's plays.Puppeteers party all the festivals of the Ural region, the organizer of three of them in the most difficult for arts and culture years.Since 2006, we are open festival of puppet theaters "Golden Horse", which has already become an all-Russian, which attracts teams from all over Russia.Our performances became laureates of "Skate" four times as "best performances" and won in other categories.
Museum House of Merchant Masharov
The museum ‘The House of Masharov’ is located in a brick mansion in the center of Tyumen, and presents an architectural memorial of the end of the XIXth century. The mansion has got a network of outbuildings. The residence belonged to the well-known Tyumen manufacturer Nikolai Masharov (1865-1922).The foundry of Masharov started its operation in 1899. It manufactured a wide range of household appliances and labour tools that were in great demand both in Tyumen and outside. Kaslinsk masters were invited to work at the foundry, thus introducing famous traditions of the Ural castling school into proceedings.The House of Masharov was opened to public in 1994. Its major purpose is to display the atmosphere and the life-style of Tyumen merchants, who were the most advanced and active citizens at the end of the XIXth – the beginning of the XXth century. The host often gave parties and receptions with improvised musical concerts. The interior of the house has been reconstructed in details, and consisted of a hall, a study, a bedroom, and a children’s room. On the ground floor there located supplementary premises. The interior design of the house can tell a lot about aesthetic requirements of the merchant families in Tyumen a hundred years ago. The elaborate design of fireplaces, small though well-planned and decorated rooms attract the attention of visitors nowdays. The museum contains a wide range of cast-iron products manufactured by the Masharov’s foundry.
Museum of Geology
The Museum can provide an initial insight into a new epoch in the history of the Tyumen land, characterized by a rapid development of its natural resources. Here a chronology of first geological survey explorations has been reconstructed, first in the Tyumen’s vicinities, and later on in the Tyumen North in 1930-1950. The exposition tells about explorers who, despite the first disappointments, kept on their researches, and ended up with triumphant discoveries of the largest oil and gas fields in the world during the years 1950-1960.The exposition gives a good idea of ecological, social and cultural problems resulted from unprecedented speeds of industrial development. Among them the major task was to preserve ethnic culture of indigenous inhabitants of the Northern territories. The museum presents samples of ethnic clothing, household appliances, and housing of Khanty, Mansy and Nentsy peoples.The Museum contains a permanent exposition ‘Mineral treasures of Western Siberia’. It presents a collection of rare minerals and rocks discovered on the Tyumen land. ‘A pearl’ of the collection is the map of the Tyumen region made out of precious stones.
Archaeological Entailed Museum on the Andreevskoye Lake
is situated 25 km away from Tyumen on the picturesque bank of the Andreevskoye lake. In 1883 the first archaeological excavations were carried out here by the founder of the Tyumen museum of local lore Ivan Slovtsov. Later on numerous traces of ancient settlements from different ages were discovered. Well preserved were fragments of towns, burial places and sanctuaries. The earliest discoveries can be dated back to Stone age (5 thousand years B.C.). Some defense installations dated to the Iron age were incorporated into the Museum’s territory. Near the entailed territory an ancient sanctuary of the Mansy people was discovered. It displayed a lot of cult items and decorations not known before. The life-style of the Khanty and Mansy peoples is represented through reconstruction of their ethnical housing and household constructions, which testify richness and uniqueness of spiritual culture and everyday life of the northern peoples, who possessed a mystery of harmonic co-existence with severe climate and wild nature.
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