Grabovsky Street

The street is associated with the name of the design engineer Nikolai Vasilyevich Nikitin. He was born on December 15, 1907 in his grandfather’s house at 33 Ivanovskaya Street. The Nikitins' house has not been preserved. It is known that he was at the intersection of Ivanovskaya and Bolshaya Soldatskaya Streets (now Dzerzhinsky), near the "Goloshubinskaya" chapel.

The Nikitin family moved from Tobolsk to the Ishim district in 1911. The father of the family was engaged in judicial practice, and the mother opened her photo, which she gradually developed, and where they both eventually worked.

In 1919, the family moved to Novo-Nikolaevsk (now Novosibirsk). There they rented a corner on Obdorskaya Street. Immediately after the move, Nikolai’s father and sister fell ill with typhus, for the treatment of which a special oven was needed to cook molasses from frozen potatoes. It was the first construction of engineer Nikitin.

In the early years of Soviet power, Ivanovskaya Street in Tobolsk was renamed Grabovsky Street, in honor of the poet, revolutionary populist Pavel Arsenyevich Grabovsky.

Grabovsky was the son of a poor rural sexton, studied at the Kharkov Theological Seminary. He was a member of the Kharkiv group "Black Redistribution". For revolutionary activity in 1882 he was expelled from the seminary, spent about 20 years in Siberia, in prisons and exile.

Pavel Grabovsky is one of the outstanding representatives of the Ukrainian revolutionary-democratic poetry of the 80−90s, a follower of the traditions of Taras Shevchenko. Author of poetry collections: "Snowdrop" (1894), "From a foreign field" (1895), "From the North" (1896), "Share" (1897), "Kobza" (1898). From 1899 to 1902, he served exile in Tobolsk, during which time he changed two houses — on Bolshoy Petropavlovsk Street (sovr. October) and Spring (modern Sverdlov). In Tobolsk, Grabovsky’s son Boris was born, the future famous physicist Boris Pavlovich Grabovsky.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Tobolsk philistine Pavel Borisovich Sabarov owned a house at 34 Ivanovskaya Street. The modern building was built in the middle of the twentieth century. The house is decorated with an overhead and sawn carving with geometric ornament.

The house was built in 1968. It had three rooms and a large hallway. The building was erected without a foundation. The house is decorated with platbands with sawn carvings, in which vegetable ornament prevails. In the attic of the house there is a small dormer window framed in a trim with a sawn thread. An old cellar has been preserved in the courtyard of the house.