Tyumen

Tyumen is the largest city and the administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located at the Tura River 2,500 kilometers east of Moscow. Tyumen was the first Russian agreement in Siberia. Founded in 1586 to assist Russia's eastward growth, the city has remained one of the maximum vital business and economic facilities east of the Ural Mountains. Located at the junction of numerous crucial change routes and with smooth get entry to to navigable waterways, Tyumen swiftly advanced from a small military settlement to a huge industrial and commercial metropolis.

The critical a part of Old Tyumen keeps many historic buildings from in the course of the town's records. Today Tyumen is an critical commercial enterprise center. Tyumen is the shipping hub and commercial middle of Tyumen Oblast— an oil-rich place bordering Kazakhstan —in addition to the house of many businesses lively in Russia's oil and fuel industry. Tyumen stood on the Tyumen Portage, a part of the historical alternate direction among Central Asia and the Volga vicinity.

Various South Siberian nomads had constantly contested manipulate of the portage in the preceding centuries. As a result, Siberian Tatar and Kalmyk raiders often attacked early Russian settlers. The military scenario intended that streltsy and Cossack garrisons stationed in the town predominated in the populace of Tyumen until the mid-17th century. As the vicinity became less restive, the city started out to take on a less military man or woman.