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Tobolsk (Russian: Тобо́льск, IPA: [tɐˈbolʲsk]) is a town in Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers. Founded in 1590, Tobolsk is the second-oldest Russian settlement east of the Ural Mountains in Asian Russia , and was the historic capital of the Siberia region.
Tobolsk, city, Tyumen oblast (region), west-central Russia. It lies at the confluence of the Irtysh and Tobol rivers. Founded in 1587, it was one of the chief centres of early Russian colonization in Siberia because it lay along an important river route to the east, but it declined when bypassed by
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Tobolsk appeared on the Russian map during the conquest of Siberia: In 1582, under the leadership of Yermak Russian troops occupied the Siberian Khanate’s capital of Kashlyk and, in 1587, a few ...
- Anna Sorokina
Tobolsk is a city in Russia with a population of about 100 thousand people, located at the confluence of the Tobol and the Irtysh rivers, about 250 km northeast of Tyumen. It was founded as the center of the development of Siberia in 1587, about 17 km from the Tatar settlement of Sibier (also known as Kashlyk, Isker), the capital of the Siberian Khanate (1468-1598).
The richest history of the city is associated with the names of many prominent historical figures of Russia. Tobolsk is the birthplace of the world famous scientist D.I. Mendeleev, composer A.A. Alyabyev, architect and chronicler S.U. Remezov, painter of the 19th- century Russian realist school V.G. Perov, President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Yu.S. Osipov.
Aug 18, 2017 · In June 1912, Prokudin-Gorsky ventured into western Siberia as part of a trip along the Kama-Tobolsk Waterway, a historic link between the European and Asian sides of the Ural Mountains. The part ...
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A historic capital of Siberia. Arrive Tobolsk, the first Russian capital of Siberia · Amazing wooden architecture · The first town of Siberia, founded in 1587, it was a center of Siberia’s development · Many famous Decembrists and other political exiles since Tsar Boris Godunov times till Tsar Nikolay II exile before execution in Ekaterinburg · The only stone Kremlin in Siberia.
