Tyumen (rus)

Tyumen

Tyumen ranks 2,768th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hobart, Antibes, and Tobolsk. Memorable people born in Tyumen include Irving Berlin, Tamara Toumanova, and Anastasiya Kuzmina. Memorable people who died in Tyumen include Tokhtamysh, and Georg Wilhelm Steller. Tyumen has been the birth place of many athletes, and composers and the death place of many politicians, and biologists. Tyumen is located in Russia.

Tyumen is the administrative center and largest city of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is situated just east of the Ural Mountains, along the Tura River. Fueled by the Russian oil and gas industry, Tyumen has experienced rapid population growth in recent years, rising to a population of 847,488 at the 2021 Census. Tyumen is among the largest cities of the Ural region and the Ural Federal District. Tyumen is often regarded as the first Siberian city, from the western direction. Read more on Wikipedia