Kirov Street

Kirov Street (formerly Tulyatskaya Street) starts from the pier and turns into the picturesque Nikolsky vozvoz.
The street owes its name to Tula gunsmiths, who made fusees, cleavers, broadswords, swords, slingshots and even cast cannons and, later, saltpeter for gunpowder. The arms factory was located in Tobolsk until 1721, after which it was transferred to Ust-Kamenogorsk.

At the intersection of Kirov and Semakov Streets (formerly Rozhdestvenskaya) is a squat one-story building, which before the revolution was a branch of the state bank in Tobolsk. This building has been used for other purposes for a long time. Now the Veteran club is located here.

On the way there is the Kachalinsky Bridge over the Locksmith River (Arkhangelsk) at the Church of St. Michael the Archangel. According to legend, a certain Kostya Kachalin lived here.
Just behind the bridge is the Church of St. Michael the Archangel. The stone Church of Michael the Archangel was built at the expense of parishioners in the middle of the XVIII century by builders Cherepanov Ilya and Kuzma. Opposite the temple stood the house of the artist M.S. Znamensky.
Across the street from the church there is a two-storey stone house of the XVIII century, which once belonged to the elder of the Church of Michael the Archangel, merchant Andrey Khudyakov. The building is famous for the fact that the writer Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev lived in it at one time.

A wooden German church used to be located on the old Tulyatskaya Street (Kirova Street, 36). In 1967, it was dismantled.

The Tobolsk district formed by the arrow of Kirov and Alyabyev streets (Kuznechnaya) is called "Kokui". In the old days there was a pub "Kokui".

Bone cutter Victor Lopatin

The famous Tobolsk bone carver Viktor Nikitich Lopatin was born on November 17, 1911 in Omsk. After graduating from high school in Novosibirsk, Lopatin worked as an electrician. In 1933, while on vacation in Tobolsk, he went to his father’s old friend, the carver Vasily Ivanovich Denisov, to order a mouthpiece. He offered to carve it himself. So he stayed in Tobolsk and went to work in a bone-cutting artel.

Viktor Lopatin turned out to be the most talented student of Denisov. Soon he was creating independent works. In 1935, his sculpture "Miner" and a relief portrait of Lenin were exhibited at the regional art exhibition in Omsk. Lopatin was entrusted with the most important orders: a cigarette case for Stalin’s birthday, a report (a relief carving on the red velvet cover of the folder) Voroshilov, chess — Mikoyan. One day Viktor Nikitich was even summoned to Moscow to make a pipe for the leader of the peoples from mammoth bone. The artist’s works have been exhibited at All-Union and international exhibitions. In 1937, at the World Exhibition in Paris, Lopatin presented the compositions "Radioified Plague" and the panel "A.S. Pushkin", and received a silver medal.
The first Soviet art historian Viktor Mikhailovich Vasilenko recalled Lopatin in this way: "Hot, extraordinarily gifted. Neither Denisov, nor Peskov, nor other masters were as talented, as audacious as Viktor Lopatin. His "Radioified Plague" is a rare thing in strength and expressiveness. His name should be in the first row, along with the old bone carvers, whose grateful pupil Lopatin was."

The title of "People's Artist of the USSR" was not awarded to Viktor Lopatin because of the outbreak of war, where Lopatin volunteered. When the Soviet government issued a decree on the restoration of artistic crafts in the country and the recall of craftsmen from the front, it was already too late — in April 1942, Viktor Lopatin died in reconnaissance on the Volkhov Front. He was buried in a mass grave in the village of Vinnitsa.

Lopatin’s widow, Nina Iosifovna Lopatina (nee Maximova) and her daughter Alla moved to Leningrad in 1946. Now the descendants of the Lopatins live in St. Petersburg. Grandson Igor Valentinovich Alekseev and his older children repeatedly came to Tobolsk in the 2000s. In 2007, he petitioned the city administration to perpetuate the memory of his grandfather with a memorial plaque on the house on Kirov Street.

In 1814, on the initiative and at the expense of the Tobolsk silversmith Johann Shpilner, a wooden building was purchased on Tulyatskaya Street. In its place, the construction of a Lutheran church began. It was built in 1818. It was consecrated by a Lutheran preacher in Western Siberia, Walter.

In 1882, 104 Protestants (74 m., 30 w.) lived in Tobolsk, of which 17 were nobles, 29 were petty bourgeois, 48 were exiles, 6 were commoners, 2 were peasants, and 1 was a soldier.
In March 1894, the church building was repaired. "The church building is being repaired: the porch has been dismantled and two or three new logs will be brought under the whole building" (Siberian leaflet. 1894. No. 17. p.2).

In 1899, 208 Protestants (98 m., 110 w.) lived in Tobolsk. In 1901, 221 Protestants (103 m., 118 w.) lived in the city.

On November 14, 1903, pastor of the Lutheran church Johann Freibert died of typhus. In October 1904, a new pastor from the Samara province of Lat arrived at the church.
In 1908, 212 Protestants (117 m., 95 w.) lived in Tobolsk.

In 1910, the preacher was Bargais Arved Ganov, Church Council: President Ferdinand Karlov, members of the Council: collegiate Councilor, Baron Benninghausen von Budberg Joseph Alexandrovich, court Councilor Freiberg Christopher Andreevich.

In the 1960s, the wooden church building was dismantled. Now this place is a wasteland.

The stone two — storey building was built at the end of the XIX century. It was part of the estate of the Kornilov merchants. In 1923, the Kornilov merchants' real estate was municipalized by the Soviet government. In the 1920s, the building housed the department of the State Pedagogical University. In the pre-war period, tractor drivers' courses were also located here. After the Great Patriotic War, the Tobol Hotel was built in the building (until 1979), then a shoe workshop and a workshop for repairing Impulse radio equipment. In 1993, the building was purchased by the district administration to house the central district library.

The building occupied by the library at that time (Kirova Street, 39), fell into disrepair and the library was forced to rent various premises: the Tobolsk Tree building at Pushkin, 23 (October 1998 — 2001); one room in the Department of Agriculture of the district administration at 3 Semakov Street (2002); building on Chekhov St., 19 (2003).

Restoration work has begun in the building on Kirova Street, 17. The grand opening of the building after restoration took place on November 14, 2003, on the day of the celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Tobolsk district. The celebration was attended by the Vice-Governor of the Tyumen region V.V. Yakushev, who later became the governor of the Tyumen region (2005−2018). Currently, the building is occupied by the Central District Library.

In ancient Tobolsk on Tulyatskaya Street (modern Kirov) there was a tavern "Kokui".

Regarding the word "kokui", V.I. Dahl refers us to the kokoshnik, which is interpreted as "the folk headdress of Russian women, in the form of a fan or a rounded shield around the head … the kokoshnik is also worn by girls: this is a light fan made of thick paper, sewn to a cap or a hairpiece".

The researcher of Russian life M.M. Zabylin mentioned that the German settlement was named Kokuy in Moscow: "Kokuyeva Sloboda, now German, and the Kokuy stream flowing from the Red Pond through the German Settlement to Yauza." The German settlement was a district of the city where foreigners lived. It is known that in the old days every European was called a German, not just a German.

In Perm Krai, the word "kokui" means a field or cemetery. On Vyatka, "kokui" is an unproductive plot of land. In Transbaikalia, "kokui" is a settlement. In Ryazan, Tambov and Tula, "kokui" is a copse. In Ivanovo, "kokui" is a stream with banks convenient for holding ritual celebrations.

Based on the above, the word "kokui" can be interpreted as a place on the bank of a river (or stream) for holding holidays. Accordingly, at a later time, the etymology of the word turned out to be associated with foreigners who made Kokui the center of public life. If Kokui is associated only with a pub (as already mentioned), then people came to the pub not only to drink, they shared news, played cards, dice, made deals, made dates, etc.

If we consider that in the consciousness of a person of the XVIII century. There were three capitals in Russia: Moscow (the old capital), St. Petersburg (the new capital) and Tobolsk (the Siberian capital), this place in Tobolsk is also associated with foreigners, for example, Swedes, Germans, Poles and even the French.

In Soviet times, on the site of the tavern "Kokui" there was a shop "Ogonek". Now there is a store "Red & White". Old-timers continue to call this place "Kokui".

The residential building on Kirova Street (formerly Tulyatskaya) is characteristic of Tobolsk and is one of the best examples of residential development of the late XIX — early XX century. The wooden two-storey house is decorated with sawn carvings and curly brackets under the cornice. Elegant dormer attic windows complement the appearance of the house.

The house is famous for the fact that the famous bonecutter Viktor Lopatin lived in it since 1935. Viktor Nikitich Lopatin joined the bone-cutting artel "Koopexport" in 1933. He quickly became a qualified carver, in fact the head of the artel and a leading craftsman in the pre-war years. His products have won first places at international exhibitions in Paris and New York. With the beginning of the war, despite the reservation, he went to the front and died near Leningrad on April 14, 1942.

On September 24, 2016, a resettled empty house was damaged in a fire.