Yalutorovsk

Yalutorovsk (Russian Ялуторовск, scientific transliteration: Jalutorovsk ) is a Russian city in the western Siberian Tyumen Oblast with 36 493 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). The city is located about 75 km south- east of the regional center of Tyumen on the river Tobol, and on the route of the Trans -Siberian railway at km 2212.

History

Yalutorovsk was later established at the site of an old Tatar settlement called Jawla -Tur in 1659 as a trading post Jalutorowski Ostrog Jalutorowskaja Sloboda. A first in 1930 but razed by the Communists, stone church was built in 1777, 1782, the settlement was granted town rights.

Throughout the 19th century, the city was a place of banishment, both participants in the Decembrist uprising as well as Polish insurgents of the surveys of 1830/31 and 1863 were exiled to Yalutorovsk. Especially the Decembrists had great influence on the cultural development of the city and the whole region to Tyumen; the Decembrist Jakuschin founded in 1841 the first right school for boys in the village, on his initiative came back and the later establishment of the first girls' school. Matvei Ivanovich Murawjow - Apostol, only surviving brother of Sergey Ivanovitch Dekrabristenführers Murawjow - Apostol, exile spent also in Yalutorovsk, his house now serves as one of the buildings of the local museum.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Sons and daughters of the town

• Savva Mamontov (1841-1918), major industrialist and patron of the arts