Semakov Street
(Podaruyevskaya until 1922)
Alexander Vasilyevich Semakov was born in 1899 in the village of Shipunovskaya, Arkhangelsk province, in the family of a poor peasant. He graduated from elementary school, then from the Shenkursky City College, where the young man met exiled Social Democrats, who had a great influence on his future life.
In May 1917, Alexander Semakov joined the Bolshevik Party. He was arrested twice for his participation in underground work and agitation among the population. He was released from prison in January 1919 by the Red Army.
In the spring of 1919, when parts of Kolchak’s army reached the Volga and the danger of overthrowing the Bolsheviks was great, Commissar Semakov went to the Eastern Front. After liberation from the White Guards of the Tobolsk province, he became the military commissar of the Tobolsk group of the Red Army.
In May 1917, Alexander Semakov joined the Bolshevik Party. He was arrested twice for his participation in underground work and agitation among the population. He was released from prison in January 1919 by the Red Army.
In the spring of 1919, when parts of Kolchak’s army reached the Volga and the danger of overthrowing the Bolsheviks was great, Commissar Semakov went to the Eastern Front. After liberation from the White Guards of the Tobolsk province, he became the military commissar of the Tobolsk group of the Red Army.
January 1920, Semakov was chairman of the Tobolsk District Party Committee and editor of the newspaper Tobolsk News. A brilliant speaker and a very capable journalist, he was also a political educator, and the Tobolsk Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b) instructed Semakov to take over the leadership of the Komsomol.
At the 3rd provincial conference in December 1920, he was elected a member of the presidium and head of the educational and distribution department of the Tyumen Gubernatorial Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b), and in early 1921 he was appointed editor of the newspaper Izvestia of the Tyumen Gubernatorial Executive Committee.
In February 1921, a peasant uprising broke out in the province. Semakov, as the commissar of the ski team, went to fight the rebels.
In March 1921, the special operation of special forces units and military formations to suppress the rebellion of peasants dissatisfied with the Soviet surplus was coming to an end. At that time, a telegram arrived at the Gubernatorial party: "It's very urgent. Tyumen, gubkom, Aggeev. It’s classified. We inform you that Comrade Semakov was killed during the attack on the Vagaysky Yurts on March 29. Tyumen group of water workers". Thus ended the short life of a fighter for Soviet power.
At the 3rd provincial conference in December 1920, he was elected a member of the presidium and head of the educational and distribution department of the Tyumen Gubernatorial Committee of the Russian Communist Party (b), and in early 1921 he was appointed editor of the newspaper Izvestia of the Tyumen Gubernatorial Executive Committee.
In February 1921, a peasant uprising broke out in the province. Semakov, as the commissar of the ski team, went to fight the rebels.
In March 1921, the special operation of special forces units and military formations to suppress the rebellion of peasants dissatisfied with the Soviet surplus was coming to an end. At that time, a telegram arrived at the Gubernatorial party: "It's very urgent. Tyumen, gubkom, Aggeev. It’s classified. We inform you that Comrade Semakov was killed during the attack on the Vagaysky Yurts on March 29. Tyumen group of water workers". Thus ended the short life of a fighter for Soviet power.
The oldest building on Semakov Street is the Znamensky Cathedral. Almost every house on Semakov Street was a monument:
- Memorial plaque to S. O. Makarov at house No. 1. During a trip to Western Siberia on September 12−14, 1897, Russian naval officer, oceanographer, Vice Admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov (1848−1904) stayed in this house.
- Memorial plaque to V. L. Khudyakov at 8a. The building of the former secondary school No. 1, where Viktor Leonidovich Khudyakov (1923−1945), Hero of the Soviet Union, studied.
- Memorial plaque on house No. 17. This building housed a hospital for wounded soldiers of the Soviet Army during the Great Patriotic War of 1941−1945.
- Memorial plaque on house No. 8. The House of the Chiralov merchants is a monument of history and culture of regional importance in the second half of the 19th century.
- Memorial plaque at house No. 36. The house is of architectural and artistic value. Built at the end of the 19th century, it belonged to the merchant of the 1st guild, the hereditary honorary citizen of Tyumen P. I. Podaruyev.
- Memorial plaque at house No. 31. The house of M. S. Seliverstov in 1908.
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