Przhevalsky Street
Nikolai Przhevalsky was born on April 12, 1839. Nikolai Przhevalsky devoted almost his entire life to the study of Central Asia. In his youth, the future traveler made an expedition to the Ussuri region, which became one of the most significant Asian studies of the 19th century. Thanks to his expeditions, Europeans gained an idea of the vast territory from Mongolia, Dzungaria to Eastern Tibet and Turkestan, as well as the unique and distinctive culture of the peoples of Asia.
During his travels, Nikolai Przhevalsky made a number of important scientific discoveries. He became the first European who managed to penetrate into the depths of Northern Tibet, to the upper reaches of the great Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, and thoroughly explore these territories. Przhevalsky supplemented the existing maps of Central Asia at that time and mapped previously unknown ridges, large and small lakes on them.
During the three years of the expedition, Przhevalsky’s group explored the Sumakhodi and Yin Shan ranges, the Yellow River, the Ala Shan Desert and the Alashan Mountains, the Tibetan Plateau, the Caidash Desert, the upper Yangtze, and the Gobi Desert. The length of the route was about 11 700 km, and half of it was measured with a compass (a special type of compass; a geodetic instrument for measuring angles when shooting on the ground). These studies formed the basis of a topographic map of a vast area in Central Asia.
Meteorological observations were carried out four times every day in the expedition, which allowed us to get an idea of the climate of the region. Ethnographic studies were also conducted, although the local population was suspicious and even hostile towards the travelers. Large zoological (about 1,000 specimens) and botanical (more than 500 plant species) collections were collected.
Based on the materials of this three-year trip, the book "Mongolia and the Tangut Country" was written.
In the capital, his work was appreciated. Przhevalsky was promoted and given a lifetime pension. His personal zoological collection was purchased for the Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Prominent scientists of St. Petersburg took up the study and systematization of Przhevalsky’s botanical and zoological collections.
During his travels, Nikolai Przhevalsky made a number of important scientific discoveries. He became the first European who managed to penetrate into the depths of Northern Tibet, to the upper reaches of the great Yangtze and Yellow Rivers, and thoroughly explore these territories. Przhevalsky supplemented the existing maps of Central Asia at that time and mapped previously unknown ridges, large and small lakes on them.
During the three years of the expedition, Przhevalsky’s group explored the Sumakhodi and Yin Shan ranges, the Yellow River, the Ala Shan Desert and the Alashan Mountains, the Tibetan Plateau, the Caidash Desert, the upper Yangtze, and the Gobi Desert. The length of the route was about 11 700 km, and half of it was measured with a compass (a special type of compass; a geodetic instrument for measuring angles when shooting on the ground). These studies formed the basis of a topographic map of a vast area in Central Asia.
Meteorological observations were carried out four times every day in the expedition, which allowed us to get an idea of the climate of the region. Ethnographic studies were also conducted, although the local population was suspicious and even hostile towards the travelers. Large zoological (about 1,000 specimens) and botanical (more than 500 plant species) collections were collected.
Based on the materials of this three-year trip, the book "Mongolia and the Tangut Country" was written.
In the capital, his work was appreciated. Przhevalsky was promoted and given a lifetime pension. His personal zoological collection was purchased for the Museum of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. Prominent scientists of St. Petersburg took up the study and systematization of Przhevalsky’s botanical and zoological collections.
The scientific work, in fact, served as a cover for a completely different activity. Przewalski was assigned a secret mission that almost no one knew about at the time.
Few people know that Nikolai Przhevalsky was a scout.
He studied at the Nikolayev Academy of the General Staff, participated in the suppression of the Polish uprising, and taught history and geography at the Warsaw Junker College.
In 1864, Przhevalsky became a member of the Russian Geographical Society, and soon he was promoted to staff captain and assigned to the General Staff.
In fact, he was the founder of active intelligence, the so-called, when you don’t sit as a resident and study the country, but act, explore those regions, collect materials.
From his first expedition, Nikolai Mikhailovich brought not only the notes of a naturalist, but also a detailed map of routes to the borders of Manchuria and Korea.
Few people know that Nikolai Przhevalsky was a scout.
He studied at the Nikolayev Academy of the General Staff, participated in the suppression of the Polish uprising, and taught history and geography at the Warsaw Junker College.
In 1864, Przhevalsky became a member of the Russian Geographical Society, and soon he was promoted to staff captain and assigned to the General Staff.
In fact, he was the founder of active intelligence, the so-called, when you don’t sit as a resident and study the country, but act, explore those regions, collect materials.
From his first expedition, Nikolai Mikhailovich brought not only the notes of a naturalist, but also a detailed map of routes to the borders of Manchuria and Korea.
A few months later, he embarked on a new trip to little-explored Central Asia. The Russian Geographical Society supported Przhevalsky’s aspiration.
In those years, two empires, the Russian and the British, were fighting for influence in Central Asia. The political confrontation between the two states has been dubbed the "Big Game." Nikolai Przhevalsky became one of its main participants.
Przhevalsky spent about 9 years on business trips, traveled more than 30 thousand kilometers. Having a photographic memory, he made maps and collected information about the Chinese army, the local population and intelligence officers from other countries.
There is a legend that Przhevalsky dreamed of finding Shambhala in Central Asia, a mysterious country mentioned in ancient Tibetan texts as a magical place of power. He studied ancient records, questioned local residents, and came to the conclusion that the gate to Shambhala should probably be located under the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul. Many years after Przewalski’s death, archaeologists actually discovered the ruins of a sunken ancient city at the bottom of the lake.
His dream did not come true: in October 1888, on the way to the Russian-Chinese border, he drank river water, contracted typhoid fever and died. Przhevalsky was buried, as he had bequeathed, on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul.
Today, a glacier in Altai, a ridge in Kunlun, and many species of plants and animals are named after Nikolai Przhevalsky. In 1891, on the recommendation of the Russian Geographical Society, a special prize named after Nikolai Przhevalsky and a silver medal were established, and in 1946 — a gold one.
A street in our city bears the name of Nikolai Przhevalsky, a famous Asian researcher. The general-traveler himself has never been to Tyumen. However, a curious document related to his name has been preserved in the funds of the State archive of the Tyumen region. In March 1923, L.B. Kamenev ordered the Tyumen Regional Executive Committee to take "all possible part in the preparation of P.K. Kozlov’s scientific expedition to Mongolia and Tibet."
Peter Kozlov is a member of Przhevalsky’s expeditions to Central Asia. In the early 20s, he justified the scientific necessity of an expedition to the Mongolian "dead" city of Khara Khoto and convinced the country’s leadership of this.
In the spring of 1925, Pyotr Kuzmich and a group of employees arrived in Tyumen. Here he met with representatives of the city authorities and discussed the possibility of locating a reserve bank and a backup base for the expedition in the city.
The traveler stayed in our city for about a week. Then Kozlov’s special train of three cars and three platforms went further east. The famous Mongol-Tibetan expedition of the prominent scientist was successfully completed in 1926.
Przhevalsky Street appeared in the village of builders of the Tyumen CHPP. Beyond that, there were wastelands and swampy terrain. In 1959, School No. 7 was built at the end of the street, initially located in a field. Over time, the Cosmos cinema appeared next to the school.
For a long time, they wanted to build cultural facilities on the site of wastelands, and excavation pits were prepared, which were filled with water to the delight of the surrounding children. As time passed, Sberbank bought the place and built its office.
The marshes were filled in with sand, building an exhibition hall to exhibit the works of local artists. In front of him, a snowy town with slides and a Christmas tree was built on a vacant lot in winter, and Czechoslovakian Lunapark attractions and mobile zoos operated in summer. By the arrival of the General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986, a park was planted on the site of the former swamp. In 2002, the square was named after the Hero of the Soviet Union, an honorary citizen of Tyumen, a participant in the Victory Day Parade on Red Square. Yakov Nikolaevich Neumoev.
Yakov Nikolaevich was born into a peasant family on January 17, 1907 in the village of Troshino, Uvatsky district. He graduated from seven grades of school. After military service in the Red Army in 1929−1931, he became chairman of the Severny collective farm in the Tobolsk region.
Yakov Nikolaevich fought on the Volkhov, Stalingrad and Baltic fronts. He was the commander of the saber squadron of the 28th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 6th Guards Cavalry Division. During the war, seven horses were killed under him, and he himself received seven wounds and two concussions. He particularly distinguished himself in the battles near Vitebsk.
He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He participated in the meeting of Soviet and American allied forces on the Elbe River in Germany, the Victory Day Parade in 1945 on Red Square, and the reception at the Grand Kremlin Palace in 1945.
In the 1990s, the building of the Institute of Physical Education and Sports of Tyumen University was built on Przhevalsky Street. In 2019, the modern Olympia sports complex appeared, which was built on the site of the former emergency one.
In those years, two empires, the Russian and the British, were fighting for influence in Central Asia. The political confrontation between the two states has been dubbed the "Big Game." Nikolai Przhevalsky became one of its main participants.
Przhevalsky spent about 9 years on business trips, traveled more than 30 thousand kilometers. Having a photographic memory, he made maps and collected information about the Chinese army, the local population and intelligence officers from other countries.
There is a legend that Przhevalsky dreamed of finding Shambhala in Central Asia, a mysterious country mentioned in ancient Tibetan texts as a magical place of power. He studied ancient records, questioned local residents, and came to the conclusion that the gate to Shambhala should probably be located under the waters of Lake Issyk-Kul. Many years after Przewalski’s death, archaeologists actually discovered the ruins of a sunken ancient city at the bottom of the lake.
His dream did not come true: in October 1888, on the way to the Russian-Chinese border, he drank river water, contracted typhoid fever and died. Przhevalsky was buried, as he had bequeathed, on the shore of Lake Issyk-Kul.
Today, a glacier in Altai, a ridge in Kunlun, and many species of plants and animals are named after Nikolai Przhevalsky. In 1891, on the recommendation of the Russian Geographical Society, a special prize named after Nikolai Przhevalsky and a silver medal were established, and in 1946 — a gold one.
A street in our city bears the name of Nikolai Przhevalsky, a famous Asian researcher. The general-traveler himself has never been to Tyumen. However, a curious document related to his name has been preserved in the funds of the State archive of the Tyumen region. In March 1923, L.B. Kamenev ordered the Tyumen Regional Executive Committee to take "all possible part in the preparation of P.K. Kozlov’s scientific expedition to Mongolia and Tibet."
Peter Kozlov is a member of Przhevalsky’s expeditions to Central Asia. In the early 20s, he justified the scientific necessity of an expedition to the Mongolian "dead" city of Khara Khoto and convinced the country’s leadership of this.
In the spring of 1925, Pyotr Kuzmich and a group of employees arrived in Tyumen. Here he met with representatives of the city authorities and discussed the possibility of locating a reserve bank and a backup base for the expedition in the city.
The traveler stayed in our city for about a week. Then Kozlov’s special train of three cars and three platforms went further east. The famous Mongol-Tibetan expedition of the prominent scientist was successfully completed in 1926.
Przhevalsky Street appeared in the village of builders of the Tyumen CHPP. Beyond that, there were wastelands and swampy terrain. In 1959, School No. 7 was built at the end of the street, initially located in a field. Over time, the Cosmos cinema appeared next to the school.
For a long time, they wanted to build cultural facilities on the site of wastelands, and excavation pits were prepared, which were filled with water to the delight of the surrounding children. As time passed, Sberbank bought the place and built its office.
The marshes were filled in with sand, building an exhibition hall to exhibit the works of local artists. In front of him, a snowy town with slides and a Christmas tree was built on a vacant lot in winter, and Czechoslovakian Lunapark attractions and mobile zoos operated in summer. By the arrival of the General Secretary of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986, a park was planted on the site of the former swamp. In 2002, the square was named after the Hero of the Soviet Union, an honorary citizen of Tyumen, a participant in the Victory Day Parade on Red Square. Yakov Nikolaevich Neumoev.
Yakov Nikolaevich was born into a peasant family on January 17, 1907 in the village of Troshino, Uvatsky district. He graduated from seven grades of school. After military service in the Red Army in 1929−1931, he became chairman of the Severny collective farm in the Tobolsk region.
Yakov Nikolaevich fought on the Volkhov, Stalingrad and Baltic fronts. He was the commander of the saber squadron of the 28th Guards Cavalry Regiment of the 6th Guards Cavalry Division. During the war, seven horses were killed under him, and he himself received seven wounds and two concussions. He particularly distinguished himself in the battles near Vitebsk.
He was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. He participated in the meeting of Soviet and American allied forces on the Elbe River in Germany, the Victory Day Parade in 1945 on Red Square, and the reception at the Grand Kremlin Palace in 1945.
In the 1990s, the building of the Institute of Physical Education and Sports of Tyumen University was built on Przhevalsky Street. In 2019, the modern Olympia sports complex appeared, which was built on the site of the former emergency one.
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