RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCESiberian BranchInstitute for Problems of Northern DevelopmentCommittee on Culture of the Administration of Tyumen Tyumen, 1994

What was on the site of present-day Tyumen 400–500 years ago? What peoples inhabited this territory in prehistoric times and when did the first people appear here? The authors of the book - scientists, participants in many archaeological expeditions in the Tyumen region - offer to take several fascinating journeys into the past with them in order to find answers to these questions. Published and unpublished materials from the funds of the Institute for Problems of Northern Development, the State Hermitage, Tyumen Regional Museum of Local Lore and Tyumen State University.