TyumenMapOctober 20–22, 2004 When you look out the window in the morning, it’s hard to figure out which part of the Motherland you’re in.  Tyumen has those apartment block stairwells so familiar to all Russians. Succeeding generations of fantastic people have grown up in those in those stairwells.  The same wonderful architecture.  The same cars.  Familiar problems.  I love you In a word, everything feels like home. 
The “Three Bogatyrs” snack bar is looking for a chef But upon closer inspection you begin to notice those delightful details which make one city so unlike the next.  People of Tyumen! Let’s make our town beautiful  Kvoliti Hotel “Tyumen”  Tyumen’s squares are beautiful once again, paved with cobblestones from the ZhBI 5 factory 
“Potaskuy” Restaurant [in Russian “Potaskuy” sounds a bit like an invitation to be wistful]
Customers! Interestingly, there are lots of houses that are positioned perpendicular to each other with 10 centimetres between them. You can imagine cats gleefully squeezing through the gaps, while people look on, blood boiling, forced to go around the building even though they can already see where they’re trying to get to.  The city’s direction sign system put a smile on my dial. Compared to Moscow, for instance, where drivers are left to their own devices, here all of the large cities close by are indicated on the billboards you see all over the city. The closest place where you’ll find something similar is France. Having said that, the numbering of cities and roads in France is not as random as it is in Tyumen (Yekaterinburg being number 01 is a purely Tyumen phenomenon). 
N. Tavda. The poles with traffic lights on them you see at intersections are absolutely astonishing. They’re all almost six metres high. The road signs and traffic lights hanging on them are so high up that you constantly have to crane your neck.  Of course, a trip to Tyumen wouldn’t be complete without this photograph.  Tyumen |
