Tyumen is becoming more and more attractive for tourists. The Siberian city has something to brag about and surprise even sophisticated travelers. It will not be possible to cover everything in one visit. Therefore, to get to know the city, you will have to break it into districts or, even more interesting, explore the sights united by one theme.
Tyumen Square
The network of streets and avenues, even the most beautiful and famous ones, has well-defined functions in the urban infrastructure. Majestic or fussy, crowded or dormant, they are necessary for the city, like blood vessels to a living organism. The square is a significant place where people gather together for some solemn or memorable occasion. The area is a bunch of their energy.
There are many squares in modern Tyumen, they are very different in terms of reason and time of appearance, in their current purpose and architectural design.
Square of Unity and Consent
Today Tyumen is increasingly getting into the top positions of economic, tourist and other ratings. BUTIt began its history in the 16th century with the construction of the Tyumen prison. Where the taiga was once cut down to fulfill the order of Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (the last Rurikovich), today is the city center.
For a long time, this Tyumen square, located not far from the prison, was just a nameless site. She received the name "Unity and Consent" in 2003. The trading traditions that it used to be famous for are supported here by the nearby Central Department Store. The square, cafes and restaurants invite everyone to relax.
But the highlight of the square is the most beautiful fountain in the city with four figures of girls named after the seasons. In the evenings, light music is turned on: both the girls and the jets of soaring water are simply magnificent. City holidays are held here.
Historic Square
This place on the banks of the Tura, not far from the built stockade, was chosen for settlement by the first Tyumen people, this is reminiscent of the stone laid here. This area of Tyumen changed its appearance many times until it took on its present form. Young people are attracted by the Lovers' Bridge located nearby. A memorial sign to Yermak, the conqueror of Siberia, is also appropriate here.
But the main monument here is the monument dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, whose eternal flame reminds of the dead.
A well-groomed square adorns the square at any time of the year, and from the high bank you can clearly see the Zarechenskaya part of the city and two rivers, the Tura and Tyumenka, which flows into it.
Memory Square
She continues the war theme. A soldier's alley leads to the memorial, at the foot is the burial place of soldiers who died in the city's hospitals. And a lot of plates with the names of Tyumen people who did not return from the front.
The memorial is unusually beautiful. A white stone candle flies high into the sky, set to all the dead, for whom the city mourns.
Revolution Fighters Square
Revolution Square in Tyumen received its name in the late fifties of the last century because of the mass burial of Red Army soldiers who fell in the struggle for Soviet power in the region. A monument designed by E. A. Gerasimov was erected on their grave - under the banner of the figure of a peasant and a worker.
And earlier the square was called Alexandrovskaya in honor of Tsarevich Alexander Nikolaevich, who passed here in 1837.
Before that, she was a Policewoman, since the two-story brick house that stood here belonged to the local gendarmerie.
Sun Square
There is such a square in the city of Tyumen. Schoolchildren can be brought here to study the planets of the solar system.
In 2009, an extraordinary monument to the Sun was erected, with the planets of the system made in proportion to the actual size. And the planets are located in strict order of removal from the Sun. The spectacle of a bright, brilliant ball of the Sun with planets is mesmerizing.
Central Square
This used to be the outskirts of the city. As it grew in the middle of the 19th century, the administration decided to transfer trade here from city markets, and set up one largearea in Tyumen for the sale of goods. It was then called Bazarnaya, Khlebnaya, Torgovaya. Travelers who passed here recalled in their notes “impassable, black mud and beautiful cheap handmade rugs.”
The square was chosen by merchants and philistines who began to build their houses around, greatly reducing it in size. And just before the revolution, a water tower was erected here, which still stands in its place.
With the beginning of the war, the glider plant and the design bureau of O. K. Antonov, evacuated from Moscow, were located here.
In the post-war years, on the Tyumen Trade Square, which was no longer located on the outskirts, the construction of administrative city buildings began. As they grew, trade was closed here, and the square became Central.
In its middle stands a monument to Lenin, near the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - a monument to the dead police officers. Around are the buildings of the administration of the Tyumen region, the Tyumen regional Duma, the Oil and Gas University.
This is not all the squares of the city. To walk along its well-groomed streets and squares, you need a lot of time and effort. But it's worth it.
