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People: Minkhaung II of Toungoo
Location: Rothenburg ob der Tauber Bayern Germany

The first Russian city in Siberia, renamed …

Years: 1586 - 1586

The first Russian city in Siberia, renamed Tyumen in 1586, is the former Chingi-Tura, a Tatar town founded in the fourteenth century and situated on both banks of the Tura River in the southwestern part of the West Siberian Plain.

It is today the administrative center and the largest city of Tyumen Oblast in the Urals Federal District.