History

  • The merchant Alexander Bryukhanov built the two-story brick house in the modern historical Tyumen city centre crossing Respublika and Semakova Streets (earlier Tsarskaya and Podaruevskaya streets).
    1886
  • Several organizations were located on the ground floor of the Bryukhanovs' house at different times: the crockery shop, lamp and furniture store.
    1900
  • Vladimir Girman opened a "Moscow wallpaper store" in the Bryukhanovs' house.
    1909
  • The printing house and the "Vestnik Zapadnoy Sibiri" journal editorial office started to work at the Bryukhanovs' place.
    1910-1915
  • The limited partnership "Bryukhanov and Co" was created.
    1911
  • The city’s first electrotheaters, "Royal-Bio" (1909 to 1911) and "Palace" (1914−1919), were working here.
    1909-1919
  • Earlier, the printing equipment was located here. It belonged to the first Tyumen publisher Vysotsky.
    1910-1917
  • The Tyumen-Turin party of the Tobolsk construction crew was located in this place.
    1913
  • The women’s meeting was held in this building. More than 500 people attended it.
    April 9, 1917
  • After the October Revolution of 1917, the Bryukhanov’s family left the city together with Kolchak’s troops.
    1919
  • The Governor’s Office of the State Political Branch moved here.
    1922
  • In 1930 NKVD was located here. The mass executions of Tyumen and the Tyumen region residents, arrested for political reasons, took place here in 1936−1938.
    1930
  • After the USSR Ministry of State Security left the building, it was given to the Tyumen Pedagogical Institute for dormitory purposes.
    1954
  • The reserve book repository of the Tyumen Pedagogical Institute library was located in several rooms and on the building ground floor.
    1970-1980
  • The former Bryukhanov’s house was no longer used as the dormitory due to emergency conditions.
    1990
  • The controversy surrounding the building continued unabated: hot debates, demonstrations, and provocative newspaper headlines called for preserving the historic monument and not destroying it.
    The '90s
  • The economic crisis and the termination of the contract with the landlord led to demolishing the crumbling house and building a new one.
    1998
  • On December 21, 2001, the UTMN Information and Library Center was officially opened.
    2001
  • Today, the UTMN Library is a space for intellectual work, providing access to a wide range of services and opportunities.
    Nowadays