Square “Tobolskaya Pravda”

The park “Tobolskaya Pravda” appeared in Tobolsk in 2012. Its creation was initiated by the editorial staff of the oldest newspaper in Siberia, which leads its history from the publication “Tobolsk Gubernskiye Vedomosti”. In the year of opening, an information stand was installed in the park, on which a new issue of the newspaper “Tobolskaya Pravda” appears every morning.

On July 28, 2016, at the initiative of the United Russia parliamentary faction, a monument was erected in the park to “Journalists who died in the performance of their professional duty”. The authors of the monument are Nikolai Raspopov, Alexander Skarednov and Roman Kalin. The monument is dedicated to the feat of Alexander Efremov. Alexander Efremov, a native of Tobolsk, a photojournalist for the regional newspaper Tyumensky Komsomolets, the first laureate of the Tyumen Press Festival in the “Photographer of the Year” nomination, holder of the honorary title “Legend of the Tyumen Press”, died in the performance of his professional duty in the Chechen Republic on May 12, 2000. An UAZ car with a journalist and three officers was blown up by a radio-controlled land mine in the suburban village of Kirovskoye. Impressions on the day of the journalist’s death, transcribed from a dictaphone, and photographs printed from half-light film, were published as “The Last Report”. This material was awarded a special prize at the all-Russian competition “Regional journalists in hot spots”. In 2010, Alexander’s feat was immortalized with the medal of the Patriot of Russia public recognition fund.

In honor of the 160th anniversary of the newspaper in 2017, another commemorative sign was erected in the park – the name of the newspaper cast in metal on a granite foot.