Reshetnikova: Leatherworking, Shipbuilding and the Tura Floodplain

In the 19th century, about 30 people lived here, most of them engaged in leatherworking and the production of leather goods and shoes. A shipyard operating in Reshetnikova on the Tura built wooden ships; in addition, one of the first steamships for the Tura was built in the town. The small obelisk on Sovetskaya Street commemorates residents who did not return from the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War. Lake Reshetnikovo, a large oxbow lake of the Tura, lies near the town.

For the 19th century, the town’s history records an approximate population and a clearly defined main occupation: leatherworking and the production of leather goods and shoes. The phrase “about 30” deliberately gives an approximate population; these were the predominant activities, not necessarily the only ones.

Shipbuilding on the Tura was another activity. The shipyard built wooden ships; separately, it is recorded that one of the first steamships for the Tura was built in Reshetnikova. Wooden shipbuilding and early steam navigation are thus two distinct details of the town’s history. Together, they offer insight into different kinds of work associated with Reshetnikova.

A small obelisk stands on Sovetskaya Street in memory of residents who did not return from the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War. Its purpose is explicitly to remember people from the town. The street named and the monument’s small size help place it more precisely in the town’s history.

The history of its care also has a stated starting point: the tradition began in 2010, ahead of the 65th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. At the time, bailiffs approached the head of the administration of the Novotarmansky municipal entity to take on the obelisk’s upkeep. This describes the occasion at the time and the request to assume responsibility for the monument.

Lake Reshetnikovo, located near Reshetnikova, lies in the Tura floodplain. It is a large oxbow lake of the Tura and is connected to the river by a narrow stream. The description thus specifies both its location in the floodplain and its waterbody type and connection to the Tura.

The terms provide different points of reference: a floodplain refers to the area around a river, while an oxbow lake is a former river channel. The narrow stream is the specific connection named between the lake and the Tura. To understand the landscape, it is therefore important not to treat the lake and river as the same: the lake is connected to the river as an oxbow lake.

Elsewhere in the broader destination of Tyumen Oblast, other places feature their own cultural and landscape themes. The white-stone Tobolsk Kremlin is an open-air architectural monument on a high plateau at the confluence of the Tobol and Irtysh rivers. The Cathedral of St. Sophia and the Dormition of the Mother of God stands within it and is described as the oldest stone church in Siberia. All the Kremlin’s sites belong to the Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve, which is designated a cultural heritage site of federal significance in Russia.

In Ishim, the P. P. Yershov Museum holds the world’s largest collection of the fairy tale “The Little Humpbacked Horse.” The Gorodskaya Uprava Museum in Ishim covers the Nikolskaya Fair, the development of merchant life, and city life during the war years. One of Tyumen Oblast’s landscape and route themes is the Decembrists’ Grove in Yalutorovsk: it is a natural monument of regional significance, covers about 90 hectares, and forms part of a historical and ecological route. These examples are in Tyumen Oblast and are distinct from the information about Reshetnikova.

Discover more destinations: Ulyanova, Borovskiy, Tyumen, Yalutorovsk, Anisimovka, Chelyuskintsev, Vinzili, Ishim.

What occupations are recorded for Reshetnikova in the 19th century?

About 30 people lived there; most were engaged in leatherworking and the production of leather goods and shoes. The construction of wooden ships and one of the first steamships for the Tura is also part of the town’s history.

Whom does the obelisk on Sovetskaya Street commemorate?

It commemorates residents who did not return from the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War.

How is Lake Reshetnikovo connected to the Tura?

The large oxbow lake lies in the Tura floodplain and is connected to the Tura by a narrow stream.

For the broader travel overview: Tyumen Oblast.