Tyumen – 1800 kilometres east from Moscow behind the Ural Mountains at the Tura river – is the capital of the Tyumen district in western Siberia, a region which in the last twenty years has seen genuine economic expansion, fuelled by the discovery and utilization of important oil fields. Approximately 600000 inhabitants; adminisration centre of the westsiberian oil and gas producing industry and important city for frade and culture. The Tyumen was founded in 1586 as first russian city in Siberia.