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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Airports in Tyumen Oblast, Cities and towns in Tyumen Oblast, Education in Tyumen Oblast, People from Tyumen Oblast, Rivers of Tyumen Oblast, Rural localities in Tyumen Oblast, Sport in Tyumen Oblast, Tyumen Oblast articles missing geocoordinate data, Dmitri Mendeleev, Irtysh River, Ishim River, Maria Rasputin, UTair Aviation, Yury Verlinsky, Tobolsk, Boris Shakhlin, Sladkovsky District, Vladimir Chebaturkin, Surgut, Savva Mamontov, Anastasiya Kuzmina, Yury Osipov, Rakhim Chakhkiyev, Administrative divisions of Tyumen Oblast, Roschino International Airport, Vladimir Polonsky, Zavodoukovsk, Alexander Popov, Yalutorovsk, Yevgeny Savin, Bely Island, Sverdlovsk Railway, Nikolay Anikin, Anton Shipulin, Vilkitsky Island, Nikolai Nikitin, Tobol River, Iset River, Tura River, Oleniy Island, Tyumen State Oil and Gas University, Shokalsky Island, Tavda River, Olga Melnik, Pyshma River, Qashliq, FC Tobol Tobolsk, Chimgi-Tura, Plekhanovo Airport, Pokrovskoye, Tyumen Oblast, Malygina Strait, Agan River, Baykal, Tyumen Oblast. Excerpt: Tyumen (Russian: ) is the largest city and the administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. The city is located on the Tura River 2,144 kilometers (1,332 mi) east of Moscow. As of 2010 the population of Tyumen is 581,800 (2010 Census preliminary results); 510,719 (2002 Census); 476,869 (1989 Census). Tyumen is the oldest Russian settlement in Siberia. Founded in 16th century to support Russia's eastward expansion, the city has remained one of the most important industrial and economic centers east of the Ural Mountains. Located at the junction of several important trade routes and with easy access to navigable waterways, Tyumen rapidly developed from a small military settlement to a large commercial and industrial city. The central district of Old Tyumen retains many historic buildings from thro...
