Zashchitinskaya Street

The street is named so from the village of Zashchitina Bronnikova parish of Tobolsk county, which was located north of Tobolsk down the Irtysh. Originally the village was called Zashchita (Protection).
All sources point to the founding of the village only in the XVIII century. The village is not mentioned in the "Drawing Book" by S.U. Remezov. Historian Gerard Miller in 1739−1741 did not single out the village of Protection as a separate settlement, considering it a suburb of Tobolsk.

According to historian N.A. Balyuk, the foundation of the village should be attributed to the second half of the XVIII century. By the decree of the Governor D.I. Chicherin, 14 exiles were assigned to Zashchita.

In 1868, there were 11 courtyards in the village of Zashchitina Bronnikovskaya volost, 54 residents lived (28 m., 26 w.). Public figures of Tobolsk noted in the village the infertility of the land and the lack of clean drinking water.

According to the first All-Russian Population Census, in 1897 there were 19 households and 76 inhabitants in the village of Zashchitina Bronnikovskaya volost. The namesake composition of the population is very motley: Vasilievs, Vokhmintsev, Ilyins, Savins, Levichevs, Anikins, Sargins, Samarokovs, Tulipovs. The most numerous peasant surnames are the Zakharovs (4 families), the Abramovs and the Mikhailovs (2 families each). The inhabitants were engaged in agriculture, weaving, and the manufacture of jewelry. Peasant Ivan Pavlovich Sargin with his son Andrey, Gavrila Pavlovich Vokhmintsev, Nikolai Grigoryevich Anikin and Alexey Mikhailovich Mikhailov served as coachmen.

The close proximity of Zashchitina to the city allowed residents to look for sources of income in Tobolsk. For example, the Tulipov and Mashkarov families were listed in Zashchita, but lived and worked in the city.

In 1926, in the village of Zashchitina of the Verkhne-Filatov Village Council there were 17 courtyards, 96 residents lived.

Currently, the village of Zashchitina in the northern part of Tobolsk is called the neighborhood "Zashchitino".

One of the few surviving old houses in the modern neighborhood of Zashchitino (now the village of Zashchitina). Built in the early twentieth century. In the second half of the XX century it was rebuilt, put on a stone foundation. Beautiful window frames with sawn carving have been preserved from the old house.

10 km down the Irtysh River on the right bank is the Suzgun hill. In the "List of inhabited places of the Tobolsk province of 1868−69", the remains of the town of Suzge-Tura are marked on the cape.

According to legend, the wife of Khan Kuchum Suzge ("beauty" (Mong.) lived here. P.P. Ershov’s poem "Suzge", probably written under the influence of the historian P.A. Slovtsov, brought fame to this place. At the end of 1839, Yershov’s poem was published in the magazine Sovremennik. In 1886 "Suzge" appeared in the "Siberian Collection" of the "Eastern Review". In 1889, the play "Suzge" was staged on the Tobolsk stage. The design of the performance was prepared according to the drawings of the artist M.S. Znamensky. In 1896, based on the poem, composer I.I. Kornilov wrote the opera "Suzge".

Many legends about this place have been preserved among the people. It was said that on the night of Easter, a fire lights up here and goes out with the first stroke of the bell, then a white horse or a white woman shows up. Such folk tales indicated to look for treasure here. In the XIX century treasure hunters dug holes in the hill, which is why it got the name "dug mountain".

The Russian settlers called the hill "Bald Mountain". In August 1917, the deposed Emperor Nicholas II visited Bald Mountain, about which there is a corresponding entry in his diary.

For scientific purposes, the first hill was surveyed in 1876. Ivan Semyonovich Polyakov discovered the ancient settlement. Excavations at the settlement were carried out in 1882 by Kapiton Mikhailovich Golodnikov. In Soviet times, a cult place of Suzgun-2 (XI — VIII centuries BC) was found in the log under the hill. In 1968, during the construction of a railway bridge across the Irtysh, the settlement was completely destroyed.