Tyumen is a Siberian city, which is the administrative center of the region of the same name. It was founded in 1586 and is currently located on an area of 235 square kilometers. The remoteness of Tyumen from the Russian capital is more than 2,150 kilometers.
Geographical location of Tyumen
The capital of the Tyumen region is the 19th most populous city in the Russian Federation, 4 in the whole of Siberia and 3 in the Urals Federal District. The population of the so-called unofficial oil center of Russia is 634, 17 thousand people, which is less than in the capital of the Sverdlovsk region - the city of Yekaterinburg (1.396 million people), with which the Tyumen region borders on the western side.
Other neighbors of the region: the Komi Republic from the northwest, the Krasnoyarsk Territory along the entire eastern extent, the Tomsk region from the southeast, the Omsk region from the south and Kurgan, which is located from the southwest.
In addition, Tyumen is a very important transport hub of the famous Transsib or Sverdlovsk railway. This fact, as well as oil deposits, made this city strategically important for Russia, the state structure and the country's economy many years ago.
Tyumen and the region adjacent to this city are included in the so-called time zone of Yekaterinburg time, that is, the discrepancy between the position of the hands on the Tyumen clock with Moscow is two hours.
How to get to Tyumen from Moscow and the Northern capital
The length of the road along which you can travel from Moscow to the center of the Tyumen region is about 1,740 kilometers. The route to be followed is called E22. Also, the city of destination can be reached by two federal highways - M7 (Volga) and M5 (Ural).
You can also get from Moscow to the city by train, following from the Yaroslavl railway station of the capital and having the final point of arrival - Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Chita, Novokuznetsk, Biysk, Barnaul or Kemerovo. To be sure that the route passes through Tyumen accurately, it is necessary to track in advance the required stop of a particular train number.
Tyumen is also connected with the rest of the cities of Russia thanks to the operation of the Roshchina airport, flights to which are sent regularly, several times a day.
The journey by car from the northern capital to Tyumen will take 35 to 40 hours, and its length will be about 2,600 kilometers. You can choose three possible ways to get to the capital of the Tyumen region from St. Petersburg - the M10, A114 and E3 highways, which turn into the M5.
Train # 074 also departs from the Ladozhsky railway station in St. Petersburg to Tyumen, reaching the destination in about 40 hours. But this route does not follow from the Northern capital every day, so some Petersburgers choose the road that passes through Moscow.
