Cities of Western Siberia by population. Ancient Siberian ghost towns

Book Atlas des enfances: Liempire russet, Imprimé à luniversité Imperiale de Moscow, 1771.

I don’t even know what to say here. I did not find any other information about this city. I wonder where the authors got this fact from? On the other hand, the book was printed in the printing house of Moscow University. Dedicated to some Kriegs commissar Glebov. Probably passed censorship. So they didn’t just write it like that.

It turns out that the same book was published under a different title: Experience of Russian geography. Imperial Moscow University, 1771. Moreover, there it is dedicated to all the governors of the then Russia, according to the list. And everyone was sent a copy to correct errors and inaccuracies
Discovering cities is my specialty, heh!
That's not all. It turns out that the city of Tyumen used to be called differently. Again, this is not written anywhere else.

Book: Abulgachi-Bayadur Khan Genealogical history of the Tatars, translated into French from a handwritten Tatar book, the work of Abulgachi-Bayadur Khan, and supplemented by a large number of reliable and curious notes about the immediate current state North Asia with the necessary geographical land maps, and from French to Russian at the Academy of Sciences. Published at the end of the 18th century. And part of the map is from there. And the city of Siberia is very clearly visible on it.

The first Siberian king, according to 17th century chroniclers, had a very interesting name- Ivan. Even though there was Magmet’s Law. It’s very interesting that it is the law and not faith. This is not the first time I have come across this very definition - law. It is different from the concept of faith. And this is a completely different look at the events of that time.
Ivan was killed by a certain Chingis. Also Tatar. In Miller's Description of the Siberian Kingdom and all the things that happened in it,: St. Petersburg: Under the Emperor. Academician Sciences, 1750. - Tatars first and the most important people Siberia.
In addition to them, on the Irtysh River, as follows from the text, the “Chyud” people live.
The city of Siberia was founded by King Mamet somewhere at the end of the 15th century, judging by the text. And the kingdom of Siberia was part of the kingdom of Kazan for many years.
By the way, very interesting point. Ivan the Terrible became the first tsar in Rus', and before that we only had princes. But the Siberian, Astrakhan, Kazan and Crimean rulers were originally called kings. Why this is so is unclear. There was something that we no longer know about that put these lands and their rulers above the Russian principalities in the then table of ranks. What about Kazan and Siberia? There was the Kasimov kingdom, right next door to Moscow. And there was a king and not a prince.
At the end of the text interesting fact- the names of Kuchum’s sons do not coincide with the names recorded in our present history. I already wrote about the Siberian princes.
And now if you re-read the entire text and estimate how much time has passed from Chinggis to Kuchum, it turns out that it’s not much. 100-150 years.
And finally. The historian of that time does not make any connection between Genghis and the Tatars, with whom Rus' was constantly at war. And this is actually correct. I’ll write about this later.

Let's list all the cities of Siberia (a list of them is in the article). They differ from each other in location, population, history, and culture.
We will consider the cities of Siberia (see the list below) for each region. The list gives short description some of them, as well as the population according to the 2016 census.
So, we present to the reader’s attention all the cities of Siberia: a list in alphabetical order by region.

Altai Republic

Gorno-Altaisk - 62860.

Altai region

Aleysk - 28528. Barnaul - 635583. From the north and east the city is surrounded by the Ob - one of the greatest rivers in the world. Belokurikha - 15072. Biysk - 203822. Gornyak - 13000. Zmeinogorsk - 10568. Zarinsk - 47035. Kamen-on-Obi - 41786 .Novoaltaysk - 73134. Rubtsovsk - 146385. Slavgorod - 30370. Yarovoye - 18085.

Buryatia

Babushkin - 4620. Gusinoozersk - 23358. Zakamensk - 11234. Kyakhta - 19985. Severobaykalsk - 23940. Ulan-Ude - 430551. Included in the list of antipodean cities. Its counterpart is the city of Puerto Natales in Chile.

Transbaikalia

natural landscapes

Irkutsk region

Alzamay - 6135. Angarsk - 226777. Baikalsk - 12900. Biryusinsk - 8484. Bodaibo - 13420. Bratsk - 234145. Vikhorevka - 21455. Zheleznogorsk-Ilimsky - 23980. Winter - 31282.

Irkutsk - 623420. An ancient city with many cultural and historical attractions. Kirensk - 11435. Nizhneudinsk - 43050. Sayansk - 38955. Svirsk - 13126. Slyudyanka - 18300. Taishet - 33587. Tulun - 41988. Usolye-Sibirskoye - 78563 .Ust-Ilimsk - 82828. Ust-Kut - 42499. Cheremkhovo - 51337. Shelekhov - 47377.

Kemerovo region

last years

ecological situation

industrial enterprises

modern city

Krasnoyarsk region

Artyomovsk - 1777. Achinsk - 105366. Bogotol - 20477. Borodino - 16220. Divnogorsk - 29050. Dudinka - 21974. Yeniseisk - 18155. Zheleznogorsk - 84542. Zaozerny - 10270. Zelenogorsk - 62670. Igarka - 4979.Ilansky - 15134.Kansk - 91 019.Kodinsk - 16222.Krasnoyarsk - 1066944. A million-plus city, the heyday of which began during the "gold rush" in the 2nd half of the 19th century.Lesosibirsk - 59846.Minusinsk - 68310.Nazarovo - 60652.Norilsk - 177430.Sosnovoborsk - 38416. Uyar - 12210. Uzhur - 15567. Sharypovo - 37258.

Novosibirsk region

federal significance

great river

Omsk region

Isilkul - 23545. Kalachinsk - 22717. Nazyvaevsk - 11333.

Omsk - 1178390. Known for aerospace industry enterprises. Tara - 28013. Tyukalinsk - 10493.

Tomsk region

ancient city

Tyva

Ak-Dovurak - 13664. Kyzyl - 115870. Turan - 4900. Chadan - 8861. Shagonar - 10920.

Khakassia

Abaza - 15800. Abakan - 179 163. Sayanogorsk - 48300. Sorsk - 11500. Chernogorsk - 74268. Now you know all the cities of Siberia. The list is given above.

Novosibirsk is the third in Russia

There are many settlements - cities, towns and villages in the Russian Trans-Urals, and the most Big city is the capital of Siberia. Novosibirsk ranks third in Russia in terms of population after Moscow and St. Petersburg. According to 2009 data, 1.397 million people are registered in Novosibirsk. The city’s birthday is considered to be April 30, 1893, but despite its youth, it is impossible to talk about Novosibirsk without using the word “most.” Firstly, the city is located on the banks of the long river in Russia - Ob. The length of the Ob with its main tributary, the Irtysh, is 5,410 km.

Secondly, the city has the largest opera and ballet theater in Russia, by area, which is business card Novosibirsk. The theater building is an example of modernist architecture of the late 20s. During the construction of the theater, many unique constructive solutions, for example, the structure of a theater dome. The dome was designed by B.F Mater and P.L. Pasternak, the diameter of the dome is 60 meters with a thickness of only 8 centimeters - this is the largest dome of this design in the world.

Theater, Trans-Siberian Railway

In May 1931, the building was laid. And already on August 1, 1941, the official opening of the theater was planned. But the war made its own adjustments, and the opening of the theater took place on May 12, 1945. In the building of the future theater during the war, evacuated exhibits from museums in Moscow and Leningrad were stored.

The start of construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway (1891) gave impetus to the development of the city's industry. Before October revolution 1917 Novosibirsk (until 1925 - Novonikolaevsk) was a trading - industrial center Western Siberia. The leading industry in those years was the flour milling industry.

Factories of Novosibirsk

The largest Trud plant, founded in 1904, produced spare parts for mechanisms of mills, oil factories and agricultural machinery. Before the war of 1941-1945, many industrial enterprises were built in Novosibirsk, including a tin plant, Sibkombine, and a boring machine plant. In 1936, an aircraft manufacturing plant was opened, which in 1939 was named after Valery Pavlovich Chkalov.

The second powerful impetus to the development of industry was given by the Great Patriotic War. Many enterprises from Leningrad and other cities of the USSR were evacuated to the largest city in Siberia, due to this, production for the front increases 8 times: only Yak fighters for the front were produced up to 33 aircraft per day.

Modern Novosibirsk

In modern Novosibirsk there are 214 enterprises that produce 2/3 of the total production of the Novosibirsk region. The leading industries of the city include mechanical engineering, metallurgy, energy, chemical, light and food industry. In 1985, the first metro stations were opened in Novosibirsk. This is the very first metro beyond the Urals with the world's longest covered metro bridge.

The city grew and developed rapidly; in just a few decades, a small town with a population of 100 thousand people became a millionaire city. Only Chicago can boast such growth rates. The center of the Russian Empire was located in Novosibirsk (Novonikolaevsk). In this place, in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Romanov dynasty, a chapel was built in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, designed by the famous architect A.D. Kryachkov.

The chapel is a symbol of Novosibirsk

The design of the chapel is made in the style of Novgorod-Pskov architecture of the 12th-14th centuries. In 1933, according to a resolution of the City Council, “taking into account the wishes of the working masses and taking into account the improvement of the city,” the chapel was destroyed. For the 100th anniversary of the city, in 1993, the St. Nicholas Chapel was re-erected. The design of the new chapel was carried out by the architect P.A. Chernobrovtsev.
Novosibirsk gained world fame thanks to its unique zoo, which occupies one of the leading places in the world in conservation rare species animals.

The largest city in Siberia continues to actively grow and develop. Much attention is paid not only to the construction of new modern buildings, but also to the preservation of historical architectural heritage.

Siberia is one of the most mysterious and harsh regions Russian Federation. Here is the famous Lake Baikal, total area which is equal to the area of the Netherlands. On its territory is located the Vasyugan swamp - the largest in the whole world. The area of Siberia is about 9.8 million square meters. km, which is more than half of the entire territory of Russia. Located in the northeastern part of Eurasia. What regions is its vast territory divided into?

Regions of Siberia: list

Siberia includes the following territories. Firstly, these are the republics: Altai, Buryatia, Tyva, Khakassia. Secondly, Transbaikal, Kamchatka, Krasnoyarsk, Primorsky, Khabarovsk. And also the official division of Siberia includes the regions: Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk and Tyumen.

Territory of Western Siberia

The regions of Western Siberia occupy an equally vast territory. The list will include the following territories: Altai region, Tyumen, Tomsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo region, part of Khakassia, and also Kurgan region. One of the most ancient territories, which was inhabited by people about 1.5 million years ago, is Altai. Its length from west to east is about 600 km. Here they leak largest rivers not only Russia, but the whole world. These are Ob, Biya, Katun, Charysh. For example, the area of the Ob basin is about 70% of the entire Altai Territory.

Regions of Siberia: eastern part

To the territory Eastern Siberia belong to the lands of Buryatia, Transbaikal Irkutsk region, as well as Tyva, Khakassia, Yakutia. The development of this area dates back to the 18th century. Then, by decree of Emperor Peter I, a fort was built on the territory of modern Khakassia. This time, namely 1707, is considered the date of the annexation of the Republic of Khakassia to the territory of Russia. The local people the Russians discovered in Siberia were shamans. They believed that the Universe was inhabited by special spirits - masters.

The Republic of Buryatia, with its capital in the city of Ulan-Ude, is considered one of the most picturesque regions of Siberia. There are huge mountain ranges- mountains occupy an area four times larger than the plain area. A significant part of the Buryat border lies along the waters of Lake Baikal.

The Republic of Sakha is ahead of all regions of Siberia and the Far East in size. Moreover, Yakutia is also the largest region of Russia. More than 40 percent of its territory is located beyond the Arctic Circle. About 80% of the territory of Yakutia is occupied by taiga.

Omsk and Tomsk regions

Main city Omsk region is Omsk. Geographically, this region is a flat area with continental climate. There are taiga forests, forest-steppes and steppes here. Forest occupies about 24% of the entire territory of the region. The territory with its center in the city of Tomsk is one of the most inaccessible. After all, most of it is represented by taiga forests. Here it is a large number of valuable deposits natural resources: oil, gas, metals and peat.

Tyumen and Novosibirsk regions

The Tyumen region is located on a flat territory. In terms of its area, it is in third place among the administrative subjects of Russia, in the Arctic, tundra and forest-tundra regions. The main oil and gas reserves of Russia lie here. Novosibirsk region famous for its rivers. There are about 350 rivers on its territory, as well as the main water artery, the Ob. There are also more than 3 thousand lakes here. regions - continental. It was first inhabited by representatives of Mongoloid tribes in the 7th-6th centuries. BC e.

Transbaikalia

The regions of Siberia amaze with their beauty and therefore are always attractive to tourists. One of these territories is Transbaikal region. It is located in the eastern and south-eastern territory of Lake Baikal. Its center is the city of Chita. There are very long and harsh winters, and the warm season, on the contrary, is fleeting.

Far East and Western Siberia

On Far East located most of Russian rivers whose mouths flow into the Pacific Ocean. Only about 5% of Russia's population lives here. Sometimes the Transbaikalia region is also included in this territory. Since the regions of Siberia are known for their vastness, disputes often arise regarding the division of its lands.

Western Siberia is located on a vast West Siberian Plain. Its area is about 2.6 million square meters. km. Its territory also contains a large amount of natural resources- mineral. There are about 2 thousand river arteries here.

“Siberia... Far and close at the same time. If you get there by train it’s a long way, on foot it’s even further. Closer - by plane. And very close - in my soul,” wrote Russian publicist Yegor Isaev. With Mazda6 we were lucky enough to look into the very heart of Siberia, its former capital - the glorious city of Tobolsk.

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Not of this world

Still, it is no coincidence that the ancestors believed that the destiny of Rus' was “not of this world.” Whatever one may say, our primary task was not to arrange our life in the same way as our neighbors in the West did, because Holy Rus' hoped for only one thing - a return to the Kingdom of Heaven. All Old Russian culture- this is the path to Heaven. The great-grandfathers knew: man will not build heaven on earth, even if you crack. Our cities are pure metaphysics. Perhaps, perhaps the most “unworldly” of all Russian cities is Tobolsk. Nowhere have legends and prophecies come true as they did in the history of Tobolsk land. No other provincial city has tied so many glorious and destinies into one knot. famous personalities, as connected by the old capital of Siberia - the city of Tobolsk. Yes, under what circumstances! But more on that later.

Winter Tobolsk greeted us sternly: with a frosty spirit, in snow-white clothes, with an angry face. And he didn’t flirt with the cheerful Siberian sun at all.

Winter Tobolsk greeted us sternly: with a frosty spirit, in snow-white clothes, with a gray angry face. And, contrary to expectations, he did not flirt with the cheerful Siberian sun at all. Looking like a gray-haired, grumpy old man who smelled of stove and shag, Tobolsk seemed to be frowning at us, checking for lice: what are you like, whose will you be, what have you come with? Then the “old man” will blush and break into a good-natured smile, then the sun will come out and power types The Irtysh will open and wide tables will appear, richly set according to Siberian law. In the meantime, our Mazda6 quietly sneaked along the snowy streets ancient city, and we carefully looked at the local decoration, inhaling with all our hearts amazing story these places.

“Unknown by birth, famous by soul”

The very fact of the emergence of this city and its prehistory give rise to a lot of mysteries, which begin with the personality of the one who is considered to be the “conqueror of Siberia” - Ermak Timofeevich Alenin. Scientists have still not come to a unanimous opinion about what kind of character this is in Russian history, who only had seven names. Few people know that Ermak was also called Ermolai, German, Ermil, Vasily, Timofey and Eremey. Who is this husband by origin? Different chronicles say differently. “Unknown by birth, famous in soul,” says one of them. For the majority, he came from the estates of the Stroganov industrialists on the Chusovaya River, who later went to the Volga and Don and became a Cossack chieftain. According to another version, he is purebred Don Cossack from the Kachalinskaya village, according to the third - from the Pomors of the Boretsk volost, according to the fourth - a representative of a noble Turkic family.

In one of the chronicles

a description of Ermak Timofeevich’s appearance is given: “Velmi is courageous, and humane, and bright-eyed, and pleased with all wisdom, flat-faced, black-haired, average in age (that is, height), and flat, and broad-shouldered.”

August 15, 1787

The great Russian composer Alexander Alexandrovich Alyabyev was born into a family of nobles in Tobolsk in the family of vice-governor Alexander Vasilyevich Alyabyev.

Another question: why did he go to Siberia? For modern historians have the right to life three different versions, each of which at the same time has its own weak sides. Did Ivan the Terrible bless the Cossacks to go on a campaign to annex new lands to his possessions? Did the Stroganov industrialists equip Ermak to protect their towns from raids? Siberian Tatars Whether the chieftain went on a raid without permission “for the zipuns,” that is, for the purpose of personal gain, historians are still arguing. Be that as it may, according to archival documents Ambassadorial Prikaz Khan Kuchum, owner Khanate of Siberia, had an army of approximately ten thousand. How Ermak, with a detachment numbering, according to various sources, from 540 to 1636 people, could conquer Siberia remains a mystery. Although the Remezov Chronicle mentions the figure “5000”, but here we're talking about about the size of the reserves taken by the squad (“for the opening of 5000 people”) and indicates only that these reserves were very large.

Angel Palm

Let's return to the city from which Russian Siberia began. Its future capital arose in 1587, in picturesque place on the banks of the Irtysh, seventeen kilometers from former capital Khanate, where the significant battle of Ermak took place on the Chuvash Cape. According to legend, Tobolsk is blessed by the Holy Trinity, which is why it was founded on this holiday. The first city building was the Trinity Church, and the cape was named Trinity. Subsequently, this part of the city, located on the mountain, began to be called the Upper Posad, and the one below - the Lower Posad. The lower city has remained virtually unchanged since pre-revolutionary times. The only thing is that the tops of the churches and bell towers have thinned out considerably, but the buildings have not changed much. To be convinced of this, just look at vintage photographs Prokudin-Gorsky.

Although by default Tobolsk was considered the capital of Siberia for as long as late XVI century, this title was officially secured by Peter's reform in 1708, when Tobolsk became administrative center the largest Siberian province in Russia, which included the territory from Vyatka to Russian America. Until the 18th century geographical maps Tobolsk is sometimes referred to as the “city of Siberia”.

“The Siberian city of Tobolesk is like an angel! His right hand is a ward rank. Having the lower seat in his hand, left hand- the cathedral church and the wall of the stone pillar, the right side - the ravine to the Irtysh, the left - the ridge and the Kurdyumka River, the right wing - Tobol to the steppe, the left - the Irtysh. This angel is a joy-giver throughout Siberia and a fair adornment, and there is peace and silence with foreigners.” These words belong to the boyar’s son, a native of Tobolsk, writer, historian, architect, builder, cartographer, icon painter Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov. It was he who designed and built the first stone Kremlin in Siberian land. According to one version, when dying, Remezov bequeathed his bones to be ground into powder, which was to be used as building material during the restoration of the Tobolsk Kremlin. This is “love for one’s native ashes.”

The “Silver Age” of Tobolsk began in the first half of the 17th century - in 1621 the city became the center of the newly formed Siberian diocese. Construction began on the extensive bishop's courtyard and the wooden St. Sophia Cathedral. With the increasing importance of Tobolsk as the most important administrative, spiritual and cultural center Siberia, the role of the Tobolsk Kremlin grew as a symbol of the greatness of the Russian state, which covered more and more new lands. Maybe I experienced the notorious tourist complex, but, it should be noted, being on the Trinity Cape in the historical part of the Upper Town, looking at the endless Siberian landscapes, you experience unforgettable feelings: the memory of the past heyday of this city and legendary ancestors, the entire history of the fatherland, and time itself seemed to freeze in these harsh places.

One of the legends speaks about the special grace given to the city by God. In the fall of 1620, on the way to Tobolsk - the first diocese in Siberia - the newly appointed Archbishop of Tobolsk, Rev. Cyprian, appeared in a dream from an angel of God. He covered with his luminous palm lower city and ordered to build churches in Nizhny Posad so that they would repeat it. The angel promised that in this case the grace of God would descend on the city and people would be born here. special people- “Kissed by God.” And so it happened. One after another, churches were built in Tobolsk according to the trace of the angel's palm: “And they flared up like sparks of God on the fingertips of the sacred palm.

Russian exile began from Tobolsk. The first Tobolsk exile is considered to be the Uglich bell.

They did not have time to build a church only on the symbolic fifth finger. But the higher will turned out to be stronger, and another branch of Christianity completed and fulfilled Cyprian’s prophetic dream. It was only according to the Supreme Providence that the Catholic church was built on the fifth finger, which completed the drawing of the “Palm of an Angel” in Nizhny Tobolsk.”

Indeed, Tobolsk gave the world a large number famous people for such a relatively small city. Here are just a few of them: artist Vasily Perov, composer Alexander Alyabyev, philosopher Gavriil Batenkov, scientist Dmitry Mendeleev, elder Grigory Rasputin, founder of the Geneva School of Linguistics, linguist Sergei Kartsevsky, inventor of television, scientist Boris Grabovsky, main architector Ostankino Tower and Luzhniki Stadium Nikolai Nikitin, actress Lydia Smirnova, actor Alexander Abdulov.

The birthplace of Alexander Abdulov is Tobolsk, and not Fergana, as many publications claim about the actor’s life. Alexander's father, Gavriil Danilovich, served in Tobolsk drama theater director and chief director.

The wooden house where the Abdulov family lived is still preserved in the foothills of the city. Gavriil Abdulov worked in Tobolsk from 1952 to 1956. And here in 1955 he was awarded the honorary title “Honored Artist of the RSFSR.”

Native of Tobolsk

the great encyclopedist Dmitry Mendeleev is known as a chemist, physicist, metrologist, economist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, teacher, aeronaut, and instrument maker.

During his exile

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky met in Tobolsk with the wives of the Decembrists, one of whom gave the writer an old Gospel, which he kept all his life. IN final scene“Crimes and Punishments” (a conversation between the exiled Raskolnikov and Marmeladova) recognizes the surroundings of Tobolsk.

born in the village of Pokrovskoye Tobolsk district in the family of coachman Efim Vilkin and Anna Parshukova. In the 1900s, among certain circles of St. Petersburg society he had a reputation as an “old man,” a seer and a healer.

Historically, in Russian Empire It was Tobolsk that became the first “exiled” city. And the first to go into exile was... the Uglich bell, which sounded the alarm during the city uprising after the murder of Tsarevich Dmitry, the youngest son of Ivan the Terrible and the only legal heir of Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich. Following the bell, Archpriest Avvakum, the Decembrists (along with their wives), Dostoevsky, Korolenko, and the last Emperor Nicholas II, and tens of thousands of other exiles and convicts of the Russian Empire.

Tobolsk suffered the fate of many pioneering Siberian cities. The gradual decline of the city is associated mainly with the transfer of the Siberian Highway, when the nature of the development of Siberia changed and a shift in population and economic life further south, into the forest-steppe. The Trans-Siberian Railway passed through neighboring Tyumen, and from the second half of the 19th century century, Tobolsk began to lose its former influence...

Nowadays, just over one hundred thousand people live in Tobolsk. The city is coming to life and even promises to grow again. In addition to the fact that the city-forming petrochemical plant “Tobolsk-Neftekhim” operates here, a large enterprise for the production of polypropylene “Tobolsk-Polymer” is being built not far from the city. The old capital of Siberia risks becoming not only a tourist Mecca, but also a major industrial center. The history of Siberia continues, miracles are yet to come...

Lanterns in Tobolsk are a separate issue. Walking through the streets of the city, sometimes it seems that there are as many of them as there are stars in the sky. The thing is that in the city there is an enterprise for the production of lanterns "Yugor", known far beyond the borders of Tobolsk and Tyumen region. The Ugra light is familiar to many Russian cities. Siberian lanterns illuminate not only Tobolsk, but also the Moscow Kremlin and Sochi beaches...

Our arrow has ripened everywhere

In 1582 Ermak won main battle on the Chuvash Cape on the Irtysh, defeated Kuchum and occupied the capital of the Khanate - the city of Siber. This is where the familiar name of our great expanses between the Urals and Pacific Ocean. True, after two years of possession, the Cossacks again ceded their conquests back to Kuchum, but a year later they returned forever. And fifty years after the death of Ermak, the centurion Pyotr Beketov founded the Yakut fort on the banks of the Lena - future city Yakutsk Four years later, another ataman, Ivan Moskvitin, was the first European to reach the shores of the Sea of Okhotsk. Cossack Semyon Shelkovnikov founded a winter quarters here, which later grew into the first Russian port - the city of Okhotsk. Through severe frosts, thousands of kilometers of impenetrable taiga and swamps - in just half a century. Colonization North America Europeans went on for four hundred years - from the 16th to the 19th centuries. And even with this the Russians helped them. Alaska, Kodiak Island and the Aleutian Islands explored and mapped in mid-18th century century thanks to the Second Kamchatka expedition Vitus Bering and Alexey Chirikov. Know ours!

Last link

On August 6, 1917, at 6 o’clock in the afternoon, Tobolsk greeted the steamship on which the last one arrived in exile with the ringing of bells. Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family. The exiled royals were settled in the governor's house, located near the pier. The family occupied the second floor of the building; the dining room and servants' rooms were located on the first floor. In April 1918, the Romanovs, by order of the Council of People's Commissars and the All-Russian Central Executive Committee, were transported to Yekaterinburg, and Tobolsk went down in history as “the city that did not kill the Tsar.” Currently this house is located City Administration, which promises to release soon historical monument to organize a museum of the royal family here.

Siberian "mazdovod"

The main guide to the Siberian land was the Mazda6, to which I would like to pay a special prostration as a sign of gratitude for its impeccable work in the harsh Siberian winter. In addition, the “six” periodically hypnotized local residents, deservedly attracting the admiring glances of local “mazdovods”, of which there were quite a lot in the Siberian expanses. One young man from Tobolsk, driving a previous model of Mazda, could not stand it and, having caught up with us at a traffic light, he literally showered us with persistent questions about the new car. My eyes were burning, curiosity was eating me up, and the conversation dragged on, so I had to turn on the emergency lights. Of course, we couldn’t give up the coveted steering wheel to him, so it wasn’t easy to part with him...