Photo Chroniclers

At the age of nine, Trofim was sent by his parents to apprentice at A. S. Shuster’s photo studio, where he mastered the secrets of the craft. During the Civil War, Banshchikov served in the Red Army as an aerial photographer. In the 1930s he worked as a staff photographer for the newspaper Krasnoye Znamya (Red Banner) under his old teacher Shuster. Later, he spent many years at the Artel Bytovik photo studio at 42 Dzerzhinsky Street.

An amateur photographer with a passion for cityscapes.

He was born into the family of an exiled Pole. In 1854, he entered government service and taught at the Tyumen District School. In 1866, he opened a photography workshop in Tyumen; according to the recollections of his contemporaries, it was located opposite the Alexander Real School. Vysotsky was awarded a commendation from the Ministry of Finance for the exhibits he presented at the public exhibition of agriculture and crafts of the Tyumen District of the Tobolsk Governorate in 1871.

In March 1973, Demus became head of the Tyumen photo studio at the regional branch of the USSR Union of Journalists, while also working as a freelance correspondent for the regional radio and television committee. In June 1976, he was invited to the Tyumen School of Arts to set up a photo laboratory and launch a course in photography. The laboratory he created was later named the best among all educational institutions under the RSFSR Ministry of Culture.

Efremov took up photography professionally in 1979. After completing a two-year course in journalism, he spent several years working in the press offices of oil companies in the Tyumen region. He travelled repeatedly to the oil fields of Western Siberia to document their development. His first photograph appeared in the regional newspaper in September 1984, and from January 1991 he worked for Tyumensky Komsomolets. In 1995, he covered the fighting in the North Caucasus. He was killed in Grozny in 2000.

In May 1890, Kadysh received permission to open his own studio in Tyumen. At the corner of Tsarskaya and Voynovskaya streets he opened "I. Kadysh’s Photographic Studio in Tyumen", which operated until 1908. Among his clients, who ordered family and individual portraits, were the city’s best-known merchant families: the Gilevs, the Kolokolnikovs and the Zhernakovs. He went down in the region’s history as the chronicler of Tyumen’s industrial age.

The exact date of the Kardonsky family’s move to Tyumen is unknown; family legend places it in 1915. In Tyumen, he spent nine years as an assistant to the photographer Iosif Shuster. In the early twentieth century, the merchant S. Brovtsyn built a separate building for a photo studio on his own estate, at the corner of Sadovaya (now Dzerzhinsky) and Tsarskaya (now Respubliki) streets. The premises were rented out over the years, and from 1924 to 1930 they housed "Kardonsky Photography". In 1930 Kardonsky moved to the Gorobprom photo studio (the City Society of Mutual Aid of Artisans), and later to the Krasnogvardeets studio.

Kiselev first picked up a camera at 32, wanting to photograph his newborn son, and that moment changed his life. Two years later he was exhibiting at international shows (FIAP), and he went on to graduate with honours from the Moscow Correspondence University of the Arts (Faculty of Film and Photography). Riding the wave of perestroika, he came to journalism and joined Tyumenskie Izvestia from its very first issue, starting as a special correspondent. In 2000 he was appointed editor of the illustrations department of the regional parliamentary newspaper. A member of the International Association of Journalists and the Union of Photo Artists of Russia, he was also, from 2003 to 2007, one of the organisers of the art photography contest held for Tyumen City Day.

Arkady Kosmakov caught the photography bug at the age of twelve. Spotting the talented boy, F. Pinchuk, a photojournalist at the city newspaper Krasnoye Znamya, took him along on 17 June 1934 to cover the welcome of the Chelyuskinites (the rescued crew of the Chelyuskin polar expedition). That is how Kosmakov’s first picture reached print, though without a credit. In 1947, he returned home from the front and went back to journalism, this time at Tyumenskaya Pravda. His photographs document nearly the entire history of the region’s emergence and the building of the country’s mighty oil and gas complex. Many of his pictures travelled through the national press, appearing on the covers of Ogonyok and Rabotnitsa and in publications in East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. His work has found its way into every photo album devoted to the development of Western Siberia’s oil and gas riches.

Margin began as a trader in the bazaars. In 1908, he became captivated by photography, shooting his family and neighbours. In 1912, he obtained permission for studio photography in Tyumen and the Tobolsk Governorate. In 1915, he petitioned the Tyumen district police chief for leave to photograph "from state and public buildings and streets" in the city. He owned the "Accessible Photography" studio, housed in a newly built and improved pavilion attached to his own home at 22 Smolenskaya Street. The pavilion was open to workers and office employees, could hold a group of up to 100 people, and offered on-site shoots at factories and enterprises. In 1930, when the authorities liquidated all private businesses in the USSR, Margin and his assistants opened a cooperative studio called "Photo-Artel".

Noskov was the staff photographer of the 51st Rifle Division and was demobilised from the Red Army in 1923. It seems that during his service as Blyukher’s personal photographer he grew so fond of Tyumen that he decided to move there permanently from Turinsk. He lived at 18 First Kazachya Street. In February 1930, he was listed among the founders of the Tyumen cooperative "Photoartel", where he worked alongside the photographer V. I. Margin.

Born in 1861 in the Urals into a family of Old Believer peasants (his father later set up a trunk-making business in Tyumen), Ogibenin began teaching at the Tyumen district school on 4 July 1885. After retiring in May 1893, he opened a photo studio at the corner of Znamenskaya and Voynovskaya streets (now Volodarsky and Kirov). He was among the first in Siberia to use electric lighting in studio photography, and he also made stereoscopic and colour pictures. He took part in the 1911 trade and industrial exhibition in Omsk and in the World Photography Exhibition in Paris. In the early 1900s, the Tyumen trading house “A. I. Sokolova’s Heirs” published several series of postcards with views of Tyumen based on his photographs. After the Revolution, he continued to work as a private photographer.

He began his career as a photographer at the ZapSibNIGNI institute. From 1980 to 2003, he worked as a photo correspondent at the creative photo studio "Tyumen" of the Union of Journalists of the USSR. Since 2003, he has been the head of the photo laboratory at the regional Center for Additional Education for Children and Youth.

In 1964, Pashuk entered the Tyumen State Pedagogical Institute, where he studied at the Faculty of Biology and Geography, graduating in 1969. He began publishing in the local press while still a student, and in 1970, after a year teaching at the Yuzhnodubrovinskaya secondary school, he was hired by Tyumensky Komsomolets. In 1975, he founded the regional photo club "Tyumen" at the House of Folk Art. He contributed to the magazines Yuny Naturalist and Vokrug Sveta, worked as a correspondent for Tyumenskie Izvestia, and served as a department editor at the magazine Yugra.

A Russian photographer, chemist (and pupil of Dmitri Mendeleev), inventor, publisher, educator and public figure, Prokudin-Gorsky was a member of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, the Imperial Russian Technical Society and the Russian Photographic Society. He made a major contribution to the development of photography and cinematography. A pioneer of colour photography in Russia, he created the Collection of Sights of the Russian Empire. After the October Revolution of 1917, he took part in founding the Higher Institute of Photography and Phototechnics (VIFF).

In the early years of the twentieth century, Luka Rodionov’s studio stood in a wooden house on Sadovaya Street (now 34 Dzerzhinsky). Tyumen residents of every social standing came readily to this master to pose before his "miraculous" camera. After the Revolution, Rodionov’s pavilion was closed. He died of typhus in 1922 and was buried at the Tekutyevskoye cemetery.

Rovensky began his career at Yu. Matsevich’s "Warsaw Photographic Establishment" in Tomsk. From November 1892, he owned a studio in Tyumen. He was awarded a commendation at the 1896 All-Russian Exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod, and later moved to Yekaterinburg.

Sokolov began working in photography in 1862. Like many photographers in the Urals and Siberia in the second half of the nineteenth century, he was an itinerant photographer: pictures were expensive, and photographers travelled to their few clients at home. He received official permission to work in Tyumen in March 1877. In 1882, Sokolov bought an estate at 35 Tsarskaya Street and equipped it with a permanent studio. In 1885, he replaced the old wooden house with a large new brick building with a cellar (today 31 Respubliki Street).

Terekhov was probably born in 1835 in Yekaterinburg, in the Perm Governorate, into a lower-middle-class family. He was a member of the Ural Society of Natural Science Enthusiasts (UOLE) from 1884 and an honorary member from 1908, and donated a selection of photographs to its museum collection. On 27 November 1879, Terekhov received permission from the Perm Provincial Administration to open a photographic establishment anywhere in the Perm Governorate. The business operated mainly in Yekaterinburg, while also making trips to cities across the Ural-Siberian region.

Omsk’s first photo salon appeared before the Revolution, in 1855: the photo studio of A. G. Tyomkin, located near today’s intersection of Zhukov and 10 Let Oktyabrya streets. It was known as "Siberia". At his pavilion, Omsk residents could order portraits, family pictures and photographs of their children, while the photographer himself also shot city views. His early panoramic photographs are especially valued today.

Turbin moved to Tyumen in 1946, where he studied in the studio of the well-known local artist Alexander Mitinsky. In 1956, he took up photography. As a staff photographer, he worked at the motor plant, at Tyumen television and radio, at the art gallery, and at the newspapers Tyumensky Kuryer and Tyumenskaya Pravda Segodnya (renamed Tyumenskaya Oblast Segodnya in 2002).

Cherepanov has been publishing in regional and national media since 1988. He organised supplementary photography courses at the Tyumen State Institute of Culture, as well as city photo competitions and exhibitions. He is the author of the books Tyumen’s Streets Tell Their Stories, Tyumen Sport and Chronicles of the Tyumen Region, among others, and has won prizes at international and Russian photo competitions. In 2013, he founded the non-profit foundation "Cultural Heritage of Western Siberia".

An amateur photographer and filmmaker, active in photography from the late 1960s to the 1990s.

At seventeen, Chernyshev began contributing to the regional youth newspaper Tyumensky Komsomolets, and in 1957 he was invited onto its staff as a photojournalist. The young specialist was sent to study photo and film reporting at the correspondence department of the University at the Central House of Journalists in Moscow. He shot not only for his own paper but also for the region’s main newspaper, Tyumenskaya Pravda, which invited him onto its staff in 1980.

Shpurov taught photography at the A. M. Kizhevatov Children’s Creativity Club and worked with many regional newspapers. He took part in regional and all-Union photo exhibitions.

In 1907, Shuster moved to Tyumen from Tobolsk and launched the firm "A. Shuster" (26 Tsarskaya Street). From 1910, he was Tyumen’s first newsreel cameraman. His films were shown in the electric theatres he owned: Modern, Ves Mir (The Whole World) and Gigant. In 1912, he filmed and photographed A. A. Vasiliev’s aeroplane flights. In 1925, he donated to the Tyumen museum a "highly valuable collection of photographs illustrating more or less notable events in the life of the city of Tyumen". In 1927, on commission from the District Executive Committee, he produced an album marking the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution.

The younger brother of Iosif Shuster, Simon also moved to Tyumen from Tobolsk. He represented the firm "A. Shuster" in Irbit (1914). In the Soviet years he worked as a photographer in Tyumen: as a photojournalist for the newspaper Trudovoy Nabat (1924), for the Krasnoye Znamya publishing house (1930s), and at the Artel Bytovik studio. He lived at 26 Komsomolskaya Street.