At the end of the 19th century, the street was called Soldiers' square, because in the place where it faced the Siberian Highway there was a two-story military presence building and barracks for 120 soldiers of the local military team. Military training took place on a nearby parade ground.
At one time, Lieutenant Colonel V.Ya. Kuibyshev, the father of the future first Deputy Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the USSR V. V. Kuibyshev, worked in this building. He was exiled to Tyumen from Omsk for his son’s political activities and led the military presence, and after his death was buried at the Tekutyevsky cemetery.
During the Civil War, the house housed parts of the Czechoslovak corps. With the establishment of Soviet power in 1919, the city military commissariat was housed in the house for half a century. From here, the entire male population of the city was conscripted into the army, and during the Great Patriotic War, over 15,000 residents of Tyumen and its environs went to the front, of which about seven thousand did not return.
In the late 1920s, Soldatskaya Street was renamed Shvernik Street (1888−1970). He was a well-known political figure of the Soviet Union. He actively began his career as a commissar on the fronts of the Civil War, worked in trade union bodies, and headed the party organization of the Ural Region in 1927−1928.
According to the fashion at that time, the Tyumen residents named the street in honor of the secretary of the regional party committee. It was hard To Nikolai Mikhailovich Shvernik on The Urals. In addition to the implementation of huge plans for industrialization, the collectivization of the Ural countryside began. Grain harvesting in state reserves was going badly, and self-taxation and taxes increased 2.5 times from the peasants were poorly collected.
Shvernik did not last long in his party work. From 1930 to 1944, he was the first secretary of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions. In between positions on the trade union line, he worked everywhere! He was a real workaholic. He held senior positions almost until his death (until the age of 82). He was awarded five Orders of Lenin, and in 1958 he was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor.
N.M. Shvernik is one of the few people in J.V. Stalin’s cohort who was able to escape the repressions of the 30s and 40s. Shortly after the death of I.V. Stalin, the leading party began to fight against the "remnants of his personality cult." It was ordered to rename streets named after still-living statesmen and other figures. The Tyumen authorities, obeying party discipline, renamed Shvernik Street to Nemtsov Street at a meeting of the city committee on December 7, 1957.