Read the text and tell about the most important places of interest in Tyumen.

The old city Tyumen is big enough and you can see a great deal when you travel from one end of it to another in a bus. The tourists can visit several buildings of old and modern architecture. There is a number of medieval churches and a monastery to look at and admire their beauty.

The best way to see the city is to begin with the Museum of Regional Studies. It was built at the beginning of 19^th century by unknown architect. On the pediment there is a tower clock invented by a Russian peasant Aleksey Trusov. The Museum has rich collections of flora, fauna and minerals of Tyumen region. Near the Museum a war memorial with the Eternal Flame is situated. Not far from it there is Trinity Monastery, Russian Baroque style. It was built in the early 18^th century and it is still true gem of the town. The walls of the Central Trinity Cathedral have survived to this day. In 1716 the Monastery opened the first parish school for priests’ children. It is located on a very convenient and important for the city place. The broad, flat cape between the two rivers and the Tura bank is a kind of a plot of the town. The Monastery stands solidly, firmly fixing its high walls and monumental erections. On its territory there is St. Peter and Paul’s church. Many household tools have found refuge in the museum of the church built in 1726-1755. There are also some other 18^th century churches in the town.

The first classicist buildings appeared in Tyumen in the early 19^th century. A brilliant example of Russian classicism – the building of the former private commercial school on the right bank of the Tura. It was built on money of the merchants the Kolokolnikovs’. Now it is the University of Architecture and Civil Engineering.

Not far from the State University you can see the monument to the fighters of the revolutionary struggleandthe monument to the school-leavers killed during the war.

If you walk down Republic Street (former Tsarskaya) suddenly to the left the view of the Znamensky Cathedral emerges. The construction of the Cathedral lasted for 20 years and was rebuilt many times. The composition of the Cathedral is very plastic and picturesque. Each facade seems to be the main one, but none of them appears to be static.

Among the modern building are the Palaces of Culture of Tyumen geologists and oil-industry workers, the railway station, the Drama and Puppet theatres, the reconstructed Concert Hall and Circus, the building of Quality Hotel Tyumen, various clubs, cinemas, cafe, hotels, a Victory memorial. Amateurs of painting can visit the Tyumen Picture Gallery and admire the works of Russian artists –Fyodor Rokotov, Isaak Levitan, Ivan Aivazovsky and others.

Every year we can see changes in appearance of the town. It becomes more and more beautiful. Old buildings are being reconstructed and rebuilt. New panel and brick blocks of flats grow everywhere destined for all society layers.

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