Ushakov House, Tyumen, Regional cultural heritage site in central Tyumen, Russia.
Ushakov House is a low wooden building at the corner of Ordzhonikidze and 25 October streets in central Tyumen. Built in the last third of the 19th century, it has a mezzanine, a balcony, and a broad facade clad in boards. Its late Neoclassical style is rare in Siberia; the six-walled frame joins an entrance porch with stairs and living quarters, and the windows have panelled shutters.
The wooden house of merchant Fyodor Ivanovich Ushakov was built in the last third of the 19th century. It later passed to the Zlokozov brothers, wine traders, and before 1917 was bought by merchant Mikhail Kalistratovich Petukhov, who made and sold fruit and mineral waters. In Soviet times it housed Osoaviakhim (DOSAAF), then the Agropromstroy design office; it is now an administrative building and was listed as an architectural monument on 8 January 1990.
The building is now an administrative office, not a museum, so there are no exhibits of merchant life inside. Its merchant past survives in the names tied to it: wine traders the Zlokozov brothers, then Mikhail Kalistratovich Petukhov, who made and sold fruit and mineral waters here before 1917. The interior decoration has been entirely lost, though the enfilade layout of rooms remains.
The house stands at the corner of Ordzhonikidze Street and 25 October Street in the Central Administrative District. It now serves as an administrative building, so there are no regular tours or exhibits; visitors see the facade and the carved window surrounds from the street. The ground floor is set off by a belt course, and the balcony and mezzanine are best viewed from across the intersection.
The interior retains its original enfilade layout, a sequence of rooms connected by aligned doorways, though the interior decoration was completely lost over the decades. The building is a six-walled log structure (shestistenok) with an attached porch and staircase, and its wide facade is clad in boards above a basement level marked by a belt.
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