The squares of Tyumen - the history of the city
Tyumen is becoming more attractive fortourists. The Siberian city has something to brag and surprise even the sophisticated travelers. To cover all the same things in one visit is not possible. Therefore, in order to get acquainted with the city, it is necessary to break it into districts or, more interestingly, to explore the sights united by one theme.
Areas of Tyumen
A network of streets and avenues, even the most beautiful andeminent, has well-defined functions in the urban infrastructure. Majestic or fussy, crowded or dormant, they are necessary to the city, like blood vessels to a living organism. The area is the same - a landmark place where people gather together on some solemn or memorable occasion. Area - a bunch of their energy.
There are many squares in modern Tyumen, they are very different for the reason and time of their appearance, in accordance with their present purpose and architectural design.
Area of Unity and Consent
Today Tyumen is increasingly in the topposition of economic, tourist and other ratings. And it began its history in the XVI century with the construction of the Tyumen jail. Where the felling of the taiga was once conducted to fulfill the order of Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich (the last Rurikovich), today the center of the city.
But the highlight of the square is the most beautiful fountaincities with four figures of girls named after the seasons. In the evenings, light music is included: both the girls and the jets of the rising water are simply gorgeous. City holidays are held here.
Historical Square
This place on the shore of the Tours, not far from the constructed prison, was chosen for settlement by the first Tyumentians, this is reminiscent of the stone laid here. This area of Tyumen many times changed its appearance, until it took the form of today. Young people are attracted to the nearby bridge of lovers. The memorial sign of Ermak, the conqueror of Siberia, is also relevant here.
But the main monument here is a monument dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, whose eternal fire reminds of the dead.
A well-groomed square adorns the square at any time of the year, and from the high bank the Zarechensky part of the city and the two rivers, Tour and Tyumenka, flowing into it are clearly visible.
Memory Area
She continues the theme of the war. To the memorial is a soldier's alley, at the foot - the burial of soldiers who died in the hospitals of the city. And a lot of plates with the names of Tyument 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 which the city is grieving.
Square of the Fighters of the Revolution
Its name is Revolution Square in Tyumen received in the late fifties of the last centurybecause of the brotherly burial of the Red Army men who fell in the struggle for Soviet power in the province. On their grave a monument was erected on the project of E. A. Gerasimov - under the banner of the figure of a peasant and a worker.
And earlier the area was called Alexandrovskaya in honor of the Tsarevich Alexander Nikolayevich, who was passing here in 1837.
And before that she was a police officer, as the two-story brick house that stood here belonged to the local gendarmerie.
Area of the Sun
There is such an area in the city of Tyumen. Here you can bring students to study the planets of the solar system.
central square
Earlier here was the outskirts of the city. As it grows in the middle of the XIX century, the administration decided to transfer the trade from the urban markets, and the device of one large Square in Tyumen for the sale of goods. It was then called Bazarnaya, Khlebnoy, Torgovaya. Passengers who traveled here recalled in their notes "impassable, black mud and beautiful cheap handmade rugs."
The square was chosen by merchants and petty bourgeois who becamebuild your houses around, greatly reducing it in size. And before the revolution there was put a water tower, which stands still in its place.
With the outbreak of the war, a glider plant and OK Antonov design bureau evacuated from Moscow was located here.
In the post-war years on the Trade Square of Tyumen, which was no longer located on the outskirts, began the construction of administrative urban buildings. As they grew, trade was closed here, and the area became Central.
In its middle there is a monument to Lenin, near the buildingOffice of the Ministry of Internal Affairs - a monument to the dead police officers. The buildings of the administration of the Tyumen region, the Tyumen regional Duma, and the Oil and Gas University are located around.
This is not the whole area of the city. To walk along its well-groomed streets and squares, it takes a lot of time and effort. But it's worth it.
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