Overview: Geographical Features: Tyumen region stretches from the Arctic Ocean to the boundary with Kazakhstan and divides the Russian Federation into two parts: Ural and Siberia.
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Population: Population of the region is more than 1,435,200 people.
Administrative division: The region is divided into 2 autonomous okrugs: Khanty-Mansyisky and Yamalo-Nenetsky, 28 districts, 24 towns of the regional submission.
Brief History:
The town of Tyumen was founded in 1581
In 1923 Tyumenskaya province was a part of Uralskaya region with the centre in Sverdlovsk.
In 1934 it was a part of Ob-Irtyshskaya region with the centre in Omsk.