Yalutorovsk today

Yalutorovsk today is a center of a well-developed agricultural district within the Tyumen region. The population of the town numbers 37 thousand of people. The economics is based on food, construction, and wood processing industries. Historical outlook of the town has been preserved up to now. There are a lot of old-time wooden buildings, a number of stone merchants’ estates, and some memorials of industrial architecture there. Within the town there still exists a park planted by the Decembrists. Though over the Soviet regime the outlook of the town suffered great losses. In 1931 Sretenski church was demolished, which had for a long time been an architectural and spiritual symbol of the town. Cultural life of Yalutorovsk today is represented by a specialized educational institutions, among which are a subsidiary of the Tyumen Institute for Arts and Culture, a Palace of Culture, some clubs and libraries, a center for ethnic handicrafts, a center for ethnic culture, musical and creative groups. The major cultural objects well known within this country are the Decembrists’ houses of A. Muravjev-Apostol and I. Yakushkin. In 1970 Yalutorovsk was enlisted among historical towns of Russia.