Grove Zhuravsky

Located next to the Zavalny cemetery, the Zhuravsky Grove is the only cedar grove within the city.

The grove was planted at the end of the 19th century by the Polish exiled Sylvester-Joseph Lukich Zhurobsky-Zhuravsky. Zhurobsky was born in the village of Malyshchina, Belsky district, Grodno province (currently – the territory of Belarus) on December 31, 1842 into a noble family.

In 1864, for participating in the 1863 uprising, he was exiled to the Tomsk province. During the investigation, his name was forwarded from Zhurobsky to Zhuravsky. A few years later he moved to Tobolsk. In 1867 Zhurobsky entered the service in the Tobolsk provincial government, where he worked until 1910.

By laying and maintaining a cedar grove for a number of years, Zhuravsky set up an interesting experience in the arrangement of cedar forest plantations in the city with rarely, in addition, he actively contributed to the creation of a circle of amateurs of gardening and horticulture in Tobolsk. The grove planted by him remains one of the pride of Tobolsk people to this day.