According to tradition, a street was built on the site of the last fortress walls and fortifications, it was nameless for a long time and only in the middle of the 19th century it received its name in honor of the distant Siberian city of Irkutsk.

When Tyumen began to expand to the south, Irkutskaya became one of the central streets. Wealthy people settled on it. This can be seen from the houses that have survived to our time.

Irkutskaya Street had its name until mid-June 1934, when it was renamed Chelyuskintsev Street.

Semyon Chelyuskin devoted his whole life to sea voyages. He had no connections at the Admiralty, so he had to hold low-level positions on the ships for a long time. In 1732, Chelyuskin was included in the Great Northern or Kamchatka expedition of Ivan Bering, which was to explore the northern coast of Russia between Lena and The Yenisei River.

During one of the expedition’s trips, the ship and forty crew members were captured by ice. The drifting ice made it impossible to sail further, and the team decided to move on foot: they had to walk 700 versts (almost 750 kilometers) across the ice to the shore.

Having already reached the land, the researchers made earthen yurts, in which they lived until the weather was calm. Local residents helped the travelers stock up on food, gave them dog sleds, and Chelyuskin and two Cossack companions set off again in the 50-degree frost to explore the western coast of the Taimyr Peninsula. The icy cold and lack of food did not stop the pioneers — they reached an unknown cape. Navigator Chelyuskin wrote in the travel log:

"The weather is cloudy, snow and fog. We arrived at the cape. This cape is stone, of average height, about it the ice is smooth and there are no hummocks. This cape is named by me here: Eastern North. I set up a lighthouse—one log that I was carrying with me."

The recording became the main proof of the brave traveler’s discovery. Chelyuskin himself had no idea that he had reached the "edge" of the Earth: it became known only in 1919 that the cape he discovered was the final northern point of Eurasia.

Chelyuskin — a Soviet steamship built at the shipyards of Denmark by order of the foreign trade organizations of the USSR. The steamer was designed to sail between the Lena estuary and Vladivostok. According to technical data, the steamer was the most modern cargo and passenger ship for that time.

In August 1933, with 112 people on board, the steamer sailed from Murmansk to Vladivostok, working out a cargo delivery scheme along the highway. The Northern Sea Route in one summer navigation.

In the Chukchi Sea, the steamer encountered solid ice and was completely blocked on September 23. Chelyuskin drifted with the crew for almost five months. In February, as a result of strong compression, Chelyuskin was crushed by ice and sank within two hours.

Fearing such an outcome, the crew prepared everything necessary for unloading onto the surrounding ice. Captain Schmidt was the last to leave Chelyuskin.

For two months they lived in a camp built from what they had removed from the steamer, in conditions of heavy winds and frosts reaching 45−47 degrees. Chelyuskin residents were able to establish an iron discipline, built an airfield, conducted scientific experiments, published a newspaper and even listened to lectures on philosophy.

The participants of the Chelyuskin campaign were awarded the Order of the Red Star for their courage and bravery in the ice of the Arctic Ocean.

The pilots who rescued Chelyuskintsev from the ice floe became the first Heroes of the Soviet Union and were awarded the highest award of the USSR — the Order of Lenin.

The participants of the Chelyuskin flight were brought by steamer to Vladivostok, and from there by train to Moscow. On Sunday, June 17, 1934, the Chelyuskinites arrived in Tyumen, which was then the center of the Ob-Irtysh region. The regional newspaper Sovetsky Sever wrote about the Chelyuskin meeting in great detail:

"The train approached the platform at 11:15 a.m. Seven brass bands played tush on the square near the railway station. Chairman of the regional executive committee Butkevich, secretary of the regional committee Fomin, and deputy Chelyuskintsev rose to the podium. Bobrov, the head of the expedition, the pilots who took people off the ice floe, and Polina Lobza — a researcher at the expedition, a native of Tyumen. Her father worked at the Mechanic factory, and her mother and brother were brought from the village of Pokrovsky in the Yarkovsky district. Almost everyone on the podium made short speeches, meeting the 40 minutes that the train was waiting for. Here, at the rally, the chairman of the regional executive committee (then the position was called chairman of the organizing committee of the Soviets) announced that it had been decided to name the newly rebuilt Ugolnik plant after Chelyuskintsev.

The pilots of the polar aviation sent greetings to all the workers of the region. One of them, S. K. Levanevsky, was already in Tyumen in 1919, he served as a messenger for the commander of the 51st division, V. K. Blucher."