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Tyumen is the largest city and the administrative center of Tyumen Oblast, Russia, located on the Tura River 2,500 kilometers east of Moscow. Tyumen was the first Russian settlement in Siberia. Founded in 1586 to support Russia's eastward expansion, the city has remained one of the most important industrial and economic centers east of the Ural Mountains. Located at the junction of several important trade routes and with easy access to navigable waterways, Tyumen rapidly developed from a small military settlement to a large commercial and industrial city. The central part of Old Tyumen retains many historic buildings from throughout the city's history. Today Tyumen is an important business center. Tyumen is the transport hub and industrial center of Tyumen Oblast—a vast oil-rich region stretching from the Kazakhstani border to the Arctic Ocean—as well as the home of many companies active in Russia's oil and gas industry.

Bridge of Lovers is the name for a cable-braced bridge across the Tura river in Tyumen. The bridge, which used to bear the name Peshekhodny ("Footbridge"), was constructed in the 1980s at the site of the wooden bridge ruined in 1979. The bridge is one of citizens' favourite resting places; you can always observe a lot of young people there, as the bridge is situated next to several institutions of higher education. To make it easier for lovers to make rendezvous, a clock was installed over the bridge entrance. Brightly illuminated at night, the bridge is bound to be visited by all the newly married couples on the day of the wedding. There is a tradition to hang padlocks on its handrails to symbolize a family union.

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  Russia, Tyumen, MIT

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