Tyumen Today

Tyumen today is by right regarded as an important administrative, economic, production, cultural, and educational center in the Ural-Siberian area. The population of Tyumen exceeds 550 thousand people.

In 1963 the Tyumen Industrial Institution was founded. By now it has developed into the Oil & Gas university, and has become one of the largest regional centers preparing qualified specialists for the energy sector. Apart from this, the University is a prominent research and cultural center of the city. Under its auspices a number of research institutions have been initiated, involved in a wide range of fundamental and applied aspects of the regional development. Over the last years new humanitarian departments have been dynamically developing. Through the efforts of V. Kopylov, Director of the Urals research institution for history, science and technology, a museum has been initiated at the University. The museum contains a lot of unique exhibits and technological items related to the history of Tyumen development.

In 1973 on the basis of the Tyumen Pedagogical college the Tyumen State University was founded. At present it is considered on of the largest educational institutions in Russian Federation. The University has got a sound economic and technological basis, and a highly qualified staff of professors. The University carries out large-scale research and publishing activities.

In 1974 the Arts college was opened in Tyumen. Since then it has become an important cultural center, and has influenced several generations of musicians, actors, artists and designers, who now work in the city. By present the subsidiaries of the Ural State Conservatory and of the Ural State Architectural and Arts Academy have been opened on the basis of the college.

In 1990 the Tyumen State Institution of Arts and Culture was organized, which prepares a wide range of specialists for culture and education, as well as for travel agencies and mass media. A number of creative groups exist at the institution, so that students might have ample opportunities to up-grade their skills in music, arts and theatre performance.

Academic science in Tyumen is represented by the Scientific Center of the Siberian branch, Russian academy of sciences. It incorporates Institute of the Earth’s Cryosphere, and Institute for Northern Development. The institutions are engaged in comprehensive fundamental and applied researches targeted at environment and ecology of the North, legislative regulations in the fuel sector, IT researches, aspects of regional development, and a lot of other directions.

The largest centers for studying and popularization of regional historical and cultural hereditary are presented by the Tyumen Museum of local lore, history and economy named after I. Slovtsov, and the Tyumen Arts Museum. Apart from these, there are some minor museums that are of interest from the point of view of the Tyumen’s history. Among them there is a museum of the Kaslinsk castling, a railway road museum, a library for family reading named after A. Pushkin, a museum of the musical publisher A. Aphromeyev at the Tyumen Arts college.

In 1990 a great work was accomplished by the local historians as to re-wising and bringing to life obscured pages of the Tyumen history. Much has been done by a publishing house of Yuri Mandryka that published a lot of unique books by leading Siberian historians, and introduced forgotten names.

Theatrical art in Tyumen is represented by the Tyumen State Drama Theatre, the Puppets’ theatre, the Angagement theatre, and some other theatrical companies. Tyumen theatres go on tours to Moscow. The Tyumen State Concert Hall carries out a lot of major projects targeted at up-grading musical culture of Tyumenians.