Not all the people, even Russian, are familiar with this city. It
just a small city in the east of Siberia. The population in this city is just
around one hundred thousand people. So tiny, but there is something interesting
about this city, about the history, and also about the chemistry. Perhaps you
will remember something if I mention Mendeleev, something comes into your mind?
Hmm ok, so how about the table, the most famous table of all time, you probably
have seen it before, at least once in your life, when you were studying
chemistry in your school. Yeah, the Periodic Table, the greatest table in
history. I know that you know it.
Tobolsk, is the city where Dmitri Mendeleev attended
gymnasium (school), and he was born in a village near from there. So, we should
agree that this city is meritorious to the development of chemistry in this
world. The periodic table is one of the most invention in history.
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If we talk about his past, oh it was so pathetic. Some
sources said that he was the youngest of 17 siblings. At first they was ok
until their father passed away and their factory destroyed by fire. They became
poor. The mother took Mendeleev to Moscow, by horse, thousands of kilometers,
to attend higher education, but he was rejected. They didn’t give up, they went
to the other university in Saint Petersbureg, and fortunately he was accepted
there. And the rest is history. So stop talk about him. Now I want to tell you
about Tobolsk again.
So, I was so lucky, I got chances to go to Tobolsk, two
times, and for free! The first one was from my groupin university, and the
second one is from the English course where I helped my teacher to teach English.
As I told you, Tobolsk is just a tiny city, so in this two times I visited
Tobolsk, I almost visited all the tourist destinations there.
My favorite place there is the Tobolsk Kremlin, we can see
the view of this city, the river, architecture, and anything, they were so
beautiful. And yeah, since it is located in Siberia, so the weather was cold. I
read that the coldest temperature recorded in Tobolsk is -51oC. Ok
thanks, I don’t want to imagine how cold it would be. Around the Kremlin they
have the Museum of Tobolsk History, from there I know that Tobolskused to be
the capital of Siberia. It also was the second Russian settlement in Siberia after Tyumen.
Besides Kremlin, we also visited some of the churches, we
did a master-class and made some artistic things from the clay. It was fun.
Before we went home, we also crossed the Tobol River, yeah this is why the city
called Tobolsk. It was very cold here. And the last, on our way back home, we
stopped at another interesting place called Abakan. We can see a lot of cool
and historical things, and also we could see a beautiful view there. Awesome.Here are some photos I took in Tobolsk.
Just in case you are curious about Mendeleev with his famous table, I put this pictures, thanks to Wikipedia.
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