Eugeni Vassilievich Bogdanovich (1828-1914)

Eugeni Bogdanovich had a noticeable impact upon Tyumen’s life at the end of the XIXth and the beginning of the XXth centuries.

Eugeni Bogdanovich was born in 1828 in the family of the nobility. Having graduated from the Marine military school he became an office in the Russian fleet. Afterwards he continued his career at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia. In 1866 he put forward an idea that Ekaterinburg and Tyumen should get connected with a railway road. The idea got an active support on the part of the merchants who were deeply interested in a trade seller’s market in Tyumen. Due to active co-operation of the citizens of Tyumen, 26 thousand of roubles were collected for survey research. Over a half of this amount was contributed by Bogdanovich himself. By the end of 1866 pioneering works had been accomplished. Though it took over twenty extra years for the first train to arrive in Tyumen. In 1867 Eugeni Bogdanovich was honoured with the title ‘A Honorary citizen of Tyumen’.