Museum

he Museum of History of Trans-Ural Science and Machinery, attached to the Tyumen State Oil and Gas University (former Tyumen Civil Engineers Institute), was founded under the Letter of the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Education of the Russian Federation, No 07-36-82 IN/07-1-40 dated 19.09.1982.

The section of Geology, Mineralogy and History of discovery of the oil fields was created earlier in 1965. It had originally been a geological-and-mineralogical unit of the Chair of Mineralogy and Petrography. In 1995 the two museums were united. Now they are located on the thematic and territorial base in two sections: geological-and-mineralogical and scientific-and-technical.

The Museum is an academic, scientific and educational unit of the University, as well as a state storage place for historical monuments, natural history, material and spiritual culture objects. The objective of the Museum is to take an active part in training highly qualified specialists and in the improvement of the methods and forms of the academic, scientific and educational work. The Museum collects, classifies and preserves cultural and historical research materials, in order to make them accessible for research and education.

The Museum of History of Trans-Ural Science and Machinery is a place where teenagers, the prospective students, can learn about scientific and technical achievements in the Tyumen region, about the life and work of the famous people of the Trans-Urals Area in 18-20 centuries. In June 1992 the Museum was integrated into the International Museum Council (Russian National Committee, section of the scientific-and-technical museums). In 1998 the Scientific Research Institute of History of Trans-Ural Science and Machinery (NIIIINTZ) was created as a unit of the Tyumen Oil and Gas University. The Museum enters its structure.

The Museum has 8 exhibition units:

• History of Science and Machinery of the late 17th - beginning of the 21st centuries;
• History of Radio, Television and Communications;
• History of Industry and Machinery of the 20th century;
• History of Photography, Optics, Stereoscopy and Sound Recording;
• History of the Farm and Agricultural Implements of the Western Siberia;
• Section of Geology and Mineralogy; History of the TII - TSOGU.

The Science and Machinery department possesses interesting exhibits from the history of development of industry, entrepreneurship and patronage in our region in the past centuries. One may see here a manual printing machine, manufactured in Germany in 1870 and which was used in the first printing office of K.N.Vysotsky in Tyumen. There is a wooden drilled pipe made of larch - an element of the water line of the 19th century (1864) in Tyumen. There are articles of the "Fortuna" Pottery and Tiles factory (1870), which belonged to I. Lambert, the town architect, products of the iron foundry of Masharov etc. The Museum possesses a collection of pharmaceutical and domestic ware produced by Aremzyansky glass works and fragments of raw materials for making glass blowers and others.

The Science and Machinery department possesses interesting exhibits from the history of development of industry, entrepreneurship and patronage in our region in the past centuries. One may see here a manual printing machine, manufactured in Germany in 1870 and which was used in the first printing office of K.N.Vysotsky in Tyumen. There is a wooden drilled pipe made of larch - an element of the water line of the 19th century (1864) in Tyumen. There are articles of the "Fortuna" Pottery and Tiles factory (1870), which belonged to I. Lambert, the town architect, products of the iron foundry of Masharov etc. The Museum possesses a collection of pharmaceutical and domestic ware produced by Aremzyansky glass works and fragments of raw materials for making glass blowers and others.

We also have to mention the famous people who were born or worked in our region. Tobolsk gave an outstanding scientist D.I.Mendeleev to Russia, as well as N.V.Nikitin - engineer-constructor of the Ostankino Television Tower, B.P.Grabovsky - the founder of electronic television broadcasting. I.Y.Slovtsov - scientist, researcher, director of the Tyumen Real School was born in Tyumen. A.E.Perevozchikov, the main constructor of the icebreakers type "Arctic" and "Siberia", was born in the village of Ertarsky near Tyumen. The destinies of V.M.Bradis, the author of the four-valued mathematical tables, of the admiral S.O.Makarov, electrical engineer L.B.Krasin, inventor of the radio A.S.Popov, geologists N.K.Vysotsky, P.V.Eremeev, N.N,Yakovlev, N.N.Rostovtsev, V.A.Obrutchev and others are related to the Tobolsk province.

The history of the radio and the television in our region is represented by a collection of the unique exhibits, dated 1904. The most interesting exhibits are the radio equipment of 1920-1940, for example the LB (Lebedev-Borusevich) radio set - is one of the first professional mass wires - lamp radio sets, which were produced in series at the Kozitsky plant in 1923-27; the 6N-1 - radio broadcasting set - of 6 lamps, desk type of the Voronezh radio plant manufactured in 1938 etc. The Museum exhibits models of the television devices with the mechanical lines resolution, dated 1922-1939, as well as the first mass KVN-49 TV set and many others.

It took much time for the museum to collect sets of optics, cameras of 1850-1960, including those of the exhibits and methods of getting volume images- stereoscopy, which are known to everybody. In particular, this collection is represented with a raster stereo screen (1940-1966) and a 9-lens projector for stereoscopic volume observation of objects without any special glasses - holography. There is an exposition dedicated to the history of development of photography in the Trans-Urals area. The specimens of sound reproduction - musical boxes of the 19th century, gramophones and record players of the home and foreign manufacture are displayed.

The exposition, dedicated to the industrial activity of peasants, shows the history of development of butter-making, tanning, carpeting, making cottage crafts, making agricultural implements and arts to treat lumber and vegetal raw materials and making agricultural implements.

The geological-and-mineralogical section of the Museum exhibits mineral treasures of the Tyumen part of the Urals, including the polar part. It exhibits the richest collection of minerals and rocks, gathered in various regions of Russia. One may see here calcites giant crystals, rock crystal, amethyst druses and many other things.
The exposition, dedicated to the discovery of oil and gas in the Western-Siberian region, provides information on history of development of the oil and gas industry, on specimens of the oil and gas condensates brought from different areas of the region. The exhibits of the geological tools are exposed in the Museum: a galvanometer for the electrical geological survey of the metal bearing ores (end of 1920), surface gravimeters, magnetometers, inclinometers for measuring space coordinates of a well. There are models as well - rocking chairs for depth pumping of oil, BU-75 BR drilling unit, wooden drilling rigs of the Baku oil fields (end of 19th- beginning of the 20th century) and others. The Museum has the richest library of antique books related to the expositions, works of the museum staff and of the university professors.