Where is it? Tyumen Oblast is located in central Russia. The Novosibirsk region is its immediate neighbor to the east. It is two hours ahead of Moscow in the Yekaterinburg time zone. Sverdlovsk Oblast is on its southwestern border.
What's the biggest city? Tyumen, whose population includes 511,000 of the region's 3.3 million people, according to the 2002 census. The next two largest cities are Surgut (population 272 300) and Nizhnevartovsk,... more
