Permyakova Street
Permyakova Street is named after the first provincial military commissar.
Georgy Prokopievich Permyakov was born in Tyumen in 1894, his father was a city guard. Often, little Gosha had to spend the night at his father’s booth, running away from his stepmother who disliked him. In 1906, his father was drafted into the Russian-Japanese war, and George was given to a merchant in Tyumen. The rude treatment of a ten-year-old boy by the cook and the coachman made him bitter, and he ran away to work at the marina.
At the pier, George’s duties included supplying rivets for the hull of steamships, such workers were called "The server". The methods of education remained the same — checkmate, slaps on the back of the head. The work schedule was extremely strict, they came to work at 6 a.m., and the working day lasted 10 hours. The food was poor: a piece of brown bread, two pieces of sawn sugar and hot water from the boiler in the workers' barracks. And so on for several years. Georgy’s diligence led to the fact that a year later, the brigades were arguing for him, a 12-year-old employee, to whom he would go to work. A bright boy has always had a thirst for knowledge, despite the fact that he only managed to study at school for a year and a half. Reading books at night had such a beneficial effect that when he met exiles in Tyumen at the age of 15, he did not have any big problems communicating with them.
The First World War began, and in February 1915, the young man was called to the front. George and I shared a black oilskin-bound notebook throughout the war. This miraculously preserved document allows us to understand the spiritual world of the young soldier. There are many poems and songs in it, and a significant number of pages are occupied by book titles with their output data. A man who hadn’t really studied was planning for himself what he needed to read!
There is only one entry from the military impressions in the manuscript: "On September 23, 1916, the battle near the village of Doliy: artillery, terrible tension, for several hours, some soldiers lost consciousness. Our losses are small, but our success is brilliant. With this battle, with the loss of several hundred men, the Germans would have been driven from the left bank of the Dniester and Galich would have been occupied, capturing a lot of prisoners and batteries, but the incompetent command led to the fact that they could have taken almost without a fight, but they did not; two corps hit each other in the back of the head and the defeated regiments and divisions almost completely perished, having stopped to winter in a very unfavorable position for it, convenient for the enemy for dozens of miles for observation and shelling, from which unnecessary casualties senselessly fall for us. It is clear from this that the personal heroism and self-sacrifice of tens of thousands of soldiers are made meaningless by the incompetence of the generals. And now, in the spring of 1917, there were more sacrifices and terrible efforts to bring him down from his winter positions. And the reason for everything is the inability of both the higher and lower commands."
Georgy Prokopievich Permyakov was born in Tyumen in 1894, his father was a city guard. Often, little Gosha had to spend the night at his father’s booth, running away from his stepmother who disliked him. In 1906, his father was drafted into the Russian-Japanese war, and George was given to a merchant in Tyumen. The rude treatment of a ten-year-old boy by the cook and the coachman made him bitter, and he ran away to work at the marina.
At the pier, George’s duties included supplying rivets for the hull of steamships, such workers were called "The server". The methods of education remained the same — checkmate, slaps on the back of the head. The work schedule was extremely strict, they came to work at 6 a.m., and the working day lasted 10 hours. The food was poor: a piece of brown bread, two pieces of sawn sugar and hot water from the boiler in the workers' barracks. And so on for several years. Georgy’s diligence led to the fact that a year later, the brigades were arguing for him, a 12-year-old employee, to whom he would go to work. A bright boy has always had a thirst for knowledge, despite the fact that he only managed to study at school for a year and a half. Reading books at night had such a beneficial effect that when he met exiles in Tyumen at the age of 15, he did not have any big problems communicating with them.
The First World War began, and in February 1915, the young man was called to the front. George and I shared a black oilskin-bound notebook throughout the war. This miraculously preserved document allows us to understand the spiritual world of the young soldier. There are many poems and songs in it, and a significant number of pages are occupied by book titles with their output data. A man who hadn’t really studied was planning for himself what he needed to read!
There is only one entry from the military impressions in the manuscript: "On September 23, 1916, the battle near the village of Doliy: artillery, terrible tension, for several hours, some soldiers lost consciousness. Our losses are small, but our success is brilliant. With this battle, with the loss of several hundred men, the Germans would have been driven from the left bank of the Dniester and Galich would have been occupied, capturing a lot of prisoners and batteries, but the incompetent command led to the fact that they could have taken almost without a fight, but they did not; two corps hit each other in the back of the head and the defeated regiments and divisions almost completely perished, having stopped to winter in a very unfavorable position for it, convenient for the enemy for dozens of miles for observation and shelling, from which unnecessary casualties senselessly fall for us. It is clear from this that the personal heroism and self-sacrifice of tens of thousands of soldiers are made meaningless by the incompetence of the generals. And now, in the spring of 1917, there were more sacrifices and terrible efforts to bring him down from his winter positions. And the reason for everything is the inability of both the higher and lower commands."
Bolshevik anti-war propaganda was spreading at the front. It did not pass by Georgy Permyakov either.
In May 1917, after another injury, Permyakov found himself in Tyumen. His application for employment as an assistant librarian has been preserved: "From a soldier of the revolutionary army, citizen Permyakov G.P. I, who was evacuated from the front due to injury… appeal to you as the council of the Tyumen Public Pushkin Library with a request to assist me — to give me a job as an assistant librarian, which is now being performed by a Czech prisoner of war. Knowing the loyalty of the Czechs to Russia and their military achievements, I still think that having spent two years in the trenches, wounded three times, a Knight of St. George of three degrees, who gave all his young strength to the Motherland and the revolution, having temporarily lost his ability to work, I have ideological advantages over prisoners of war." It should be added that for several hundred thousand Siberian servicemen, there were only eight holders of the St. George Cross of three degrees!
In May 1917, after another injury, Permyakov found himself in Tyumen. His application for employment as an assistant librarian has been preserved: "From a soldier of the revolutionary army, citizen Permyakov G.P. I, who was evacuated from the front due to injury… appeal to you as the council of the Tyumen Public Pushkin Library with a request to assist me — to give me a job as an assistant librarian, which is now being performed by a Czech prisoner of war. Knowing the loyalty of the Czechs to Russia and their military achievements, I still think that having spent two years in the trenches, wounded three times, a Knight of St. George of three degrees, who gave all his young strength to the Motherland and the revolution, having temporarily lost his ability to work, I have ideological advantages over prisoners of war." It should be added that for several hundred thousand Siberian servicemen, there were only eight holders of the St. George Cross of three degrees!
In July 1917, Permyakov was elected chairman of his committee by the veterans of the Tyumen garrison. Subsequent events promoted Permyakov to the first ranks of the provincial leaders: he was the organizer of the first formations of the Red Army, chairman of the first Bolshevik Council of Deputies, chairman of the provincial military Revolutionary committee. The photograph of those years represents a real people’s tribune, which confirms the effectiveness of his work: he managed to attract thousands of Tyumen workers to the armed detachments.
The last period of his life is connected with Moscow. He worked in the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture, in the USSR Ministry of Agriculture, and as a state arbitrator at The Council of Ministers of the USSR.
Georgy Prokopievich collected a rich collection of books, which he bequeathed to his native Tyumen. Most of the collection was transferred to the newly opened Tyumen university, the Industrial Institute, and part of it was transferred to the library of the Tyumen Regional Party Archive. In 1987, the collection was combined and given to the fund of the Tyumen Regional Scientific Library.
The street in honor of G.P. Permyakov was named in February 1966, when they began to build up the eastern part of Tyumen, where the fields of the military state farm of the village of Voynovka, which entered the city, used to be.
Now the length of Permyakova Street is about 5 kilometers: from Kharkov Street to Fedyuninsky street.
The last period of his life is connected with Moscow. He worked in the People’s Commissariat of Agriculture, in the USSR Ministry of Agriculture, and as a state arbitrator at The Council of Ministers of the USSR.
Georgy Prokopievich collected a rich collection of books, which he bequeathed to his native Tyumen. Most of the collection was transferred to the newly opened Tyumen university, the Industrial Institute, and part of it was transferred to the library of the Tyumen Regional Party Archive. In 1987, the collection was combined and given to the fund of the Tyumen Regional Scientific Library.
The street in honor of G.P. Permyakov was named in February 1966, when they began to build up the eastern part of Tyumen, where the fields of the military state farm of the village of Voynovka, which entered the city, used to be.
Now the length of Permyakova Street is about 5 kilometers: from Kharkov Street to Fedyuninsky street.
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