were an indicator of the wealth and prestige of the merchant city, they were built by the peasant alexei trusovindustrial exhibition he received a silver medal and a considerable fee of thousands of rubles, at that time this was a lot, then he served in the duma, courted his brainchild , but the revolutions and world wars made their own adjustments to the operation of the clock, after the second world war the chimes were rebuilt, and the clock started running, but as happens during repairs. there were extra parts left, so the clock chimes no longer struck, but to this day day the mechanism functions properly and the clock shows the correct time, in the summer, but in the winter the hands just freeze, it’s cold, this is tyumen after all, but i advise you to visit inside the museum, get to know ivanovich, as the museum workers affectionately call this tall handsome man, this one of the most fully preserved skeletons of a woolly mammoth, it was found in these places 138 years ago by a historian and scientist... led by ivan slavtsov, in fact, in whose honor this specimen was named. height of ivanov