1918 The provincial conference of Soviets held in Tyumen on April 3–5, 1918, decided to rename the
Tobolsk Governorate to Tyumen and move the provincial center to Tyumen. A report on this was published in the
Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee on April 3. The Tobolsk Soviet opposed the decision of the conference and on May 3 declared itself the provincial. Initially, the following counties were included in the province:
Beryozovsky,
Ishimsky,
Kurgansky,
Surgutsky,
Tarsky,
Tobolsky,
Tyukalinsky,
Tyumensky and
Yalutorovsky. After the capture of Tyumen by the
White Czechs in the summer of the same year, the province again became Tobolsk.
1920-1923 After
the capture of Western Siberia by the Reds and the retreat of the
Kolchakites, provincial institutions were established in Tyumen, but the province continued to be alternately called Tobolsk and Tyumen. Thus, in the resolution of the
VTsIK of August 27, 1919, it was called Tobolsk, and in the resolution of the
SNK RSFSR of March 2, 1920, it was called Tyumen. The final renaming of the province to Tyumen was confirmed by the decree of the
VTsIK "On the transfer of the Chelyabinsk and Tyumen provinces with the Ishim district to the jurisdiction of the Revolutionary Council of the 1st Labor Army..." dated April 21, 1920. The province included the Berezovsky, Ishimsky, Surgutsky, Tobolsky,
Turinsky, Tyumensky and Yalutorovsky districts. The process of transferring powers from the military revolutionary committees to the Soviets was completed in 1921. In the early 1920s, the Reds suppressed the
West Siberian Uprising — the largest anti-Bolshevik armed uprising of peasants, Cossacks, some workers and urban intelligentsia in the RSFSR. During February–May 1921, the rebels controlled a number of district centers (Berezovsky, Surgut, Tobolsk). Abolished by the decree of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee of November 3, 1923. The territory became part of the newly formed
Irbit,
Ishim,
Tobolsk and
Tyumen districts of the
Ural Region. == Literature ==