in 1829 , alexander visited omsk, the world-famous expeditions of peter semyonov began here tienshanskyi prozhevalsky and mikhail pevtsov. the main pedestrian street of omsk is named after the scientist and intelligence officer chokanov likhanov, a graduate of the siberian cadet corps. in 1858, he carried out a secret, very risky mission in kashgaria, where a big political game began between russia, great britain and china. after the construction of the trans-siberian railway , streams of peasant migrants poured into siberia. the rapid development of the region was interrupted by the first world war and the february and october revolutions of 1917 of the year. during the civil war, omsk for a while. became the capital of white guard russia. the picturesque mansion of the merchant batyushkov on the banks of the rtsh in the center of the city became the personal residence of admiral alexander vasilyevich kolchak. he moved here on december 15, 1918, after he assumed supreme power. here the supreme ruler of russia lived for a year before retreating from the city. with a major scientist, an