Chaplin Street
(1st Krestyanskaya until 1940,
Kirpichnaya until 1968)
Peasant places are located in the center of Tyumen on the opposite side of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Initially, they were limited to the railway and the Chervishevsky tract, but over the years they have grown in a southerly direction.

The district appeared about a hundred years ago as a continuation of the district Barns.

In the 1930s, the street was named 1st Krestyanskaya, then it was renamed Kirpichnaya.

Few people in Tyumen know who N. Chaplin is now. Chaplin Nikolai Pavlovich (6.12.1902 — 09.23.1938) was born in the Roslavl district of the Smolensk province. In 1918, he created one of the first Komsomol cells in this province. He quickly moved forward as a youth leader and in early 1920 became secretary of the City Committee of the Russian Communist League in Smolensk.

The history of the Tyumen youth movement begins on April 15, 1918, when the first meeting of the city’s socialist union of Workers and Peasants youth was held. Initially, 28 people joined the Union.

Due to the difficulties associated with the civil war, a new youth meeting was held in Tyumen only on August 22, 1919 in the building of the old Tekutyevsky Theater. It was opened by Kostylev, a representative of the political department of the 51st division, which liberated the city from Kolchak’s troops. The registration of those wishing to join the ranks of the Bolshevik Youth Union has begun.

On March 21−24, 1920, the first provincial congress of the RKSM was held, which was attended by representatives of 36 primary organizations. Due to the fact that disagreements arose between the leaders of the Tyumen Gubernatorial Committee of the RKSM, the Central Committee of the RKSM decided to send replacements from the center: N. Chaplin and I. Shostin. On June 15, 1920, they were inducted into the presidium of the Gubernatorial Committee of the Russian Communist League, N. Chaplin became its chairman and chairman of the Tyumen Komsomol ("Komsomol", as they said then). However, N. Chaplin did not stay in this position, he was recalled back to Smolensk in the autumn of 1920. In 1924, he was elected General secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol.
Nikolai Chaplin was not only the first General Secretary of the Komsomol organization, but also one of the main creators of the pioneer movement. However, Chaplin’s career, like his life, was short. In 1938, the Komsomol leader was sentenced to death.

Nikolai Pavlovich Chaplin was born in 1902 in the Smolensk province in the family of a rural priest. Chaplin was only 15 years old in 1917, but he welcomed the revolution with joy and even dropped out of real school in order to build a new government. Just a few months later, this young man created one of the first Komsomol cells in Smolensk. Subsequently, he led the Komsomol in Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, and Transcaucasia. In 1921, at the Congress of the Russian Communist League, Chaplin was appointed head of the political education department and left in Moscow. It is noteworthy that in the 1920s it was Nikolai Pavlovich who proposed naming the Komsomol Leninist. However, this is not the only merit of the Komsomol leader. As Vladimir Kudinov and Lyubov Timonina write in the textbook "The History of the Children’s and Youth Movement in Russia", in 1922 Nikolai Chaplin also served as the first chairman of the Bureau for Work among Children. During Chaplin’s work, several directive letters were prepared to the Komsomol gubernatorial committees on what the children’s communist movement was, how to organize it, and what should underlie its activities. Under Nikolai Pavlovich, who became one of the main initiators of the creation of the pioneer, the basic principles of the pioneer organization were laid down.
It is not surprising that 3 years later Nikolai Chaplin was elected the first General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist League. Moreover, being the son of a priest, Chaplin actively fought against "religious remnants" and passed through the Central Committee the resolution "Tasks of the Komsomol on the anti-religious front." The young Komsomol leader did not miss the opportunity to replenish his knowledge. In 1928, he graduated from the courses of Marxism-Leninism at the CPSU (b). However, it was from these courses that Chaplin’s downfall began. Then he was appointed the second secretary of the Transcaucasian Regional Committee of the party, but a few months later he was replaced in this position by Lavrenty Beria.

He was elected a delegate to five congresses of the Communist Party, a candidate member of the Central Committee and the organizational Bureau of the CPSU (b), in 1936 he was awarded the Order of Lenin…

At the end of June 1937, Nikolai Chaplin was arrested. Chaplin, who was arrested and slandered, confessed that he was a "saboteur and spy." In September of the following year, 1938, a visiting session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, based on the testimony of Nikolai Pavlovich himself, found him guilty of all crimes and sentenced him to capital punishment. He was shot the day after his sentencing and, as in numerous other cases during the period of repression, the place of burial of his remains remained unknown.

He was rehabilitated by the military collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in 1955.

The street is going to be expanded by making a transport highway as a continuation of Shirotnaya Street. Already, some of the houses are beginning to be demolished, and multi-storey buildings are taking their place.
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