Famous people of Tyumen

The region is famous worldwide for its scientists, sportsmen, writers, poets, artists, painters and politicians, such as the following

Dmitry Mendeleev

Chemist, physicist, metrologist, economist, technologist, geologist, meteorologist, teacher, aeronaut, instrument maker

Born in Tobolsk in 1834

Sergei Sobyanin

Mayor of Moscow, 2001-2005 - Governor of the Tyumen Region

Born in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in 1958

Peter Ershov

Writer

Born in Ishim district in 1815

Yuri Osipov

Russian mathematician and mechanic, professor, first president of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Born in Tobolsk in 1936

Vasily Knyazev

Soviet revolutionary poet-satirist

Born in Tyumen in 1887

Vladislav Krapivin

Children's writer

Born in Tyumen in 1938

Gabriel Batenkov

Soviet revolutionary poet-satirist

Born in Tobolsk in 1793

Alexander Abdulov

Children's writer

Born in Tobolsk in 1953

Alexander Alyabyev

Composer

Born in Tobolsk in 1787

Vasily Perov

Painter

Born in Tobolsk in 1833

Nikolay Nikitin

Soviet architect

Born in Tobolsk in 1907

Alexander Kokorinov

Architect

Born in Tobolsk in 1726

Yuri Gulyaev

Soviet singer

Born in Tyumen in 1930

Boris Shakhlin

Gymnast, seven-time Olympic champion

Born in Ishim in 1932

Grigory Rasputin

Close to the royal family

Born in the Tyumen district in 1869

Boris Grabovsky

Soviet physicist and inventor

Born in Tobolsk in 1901