Tyumen's embankment is one of the city's most loved places. People come here to walk, run, take photographs and watch the river.
Yet the Tura often remains a backdrop rather than an integral part of urban life. We look at it from the shore, but rarely use it as a resource for transport, tourism, events or everyday journeys.
In this episode, we discuss why Tyumen needs piers and why river infrastructure is a tool for integrated urban development, rather than simply somewhere to moor a boat.
The host of Dialogues about Tyumen is Karina Astaplyuk, General Director of the autonomous non-profit Institute for Integrated Territorial Development.
Our guest is Ekaterina Zhuravlyova, an urban expert, architect and head of the Flotilia design team. Ekaterina works on integrated territorial development and public spaces. Together with her team, she is developing a concept for a network of piers along the Tura.
We discuss: • the role a river can play in a contemporary city; • why Tyumen needs piers now; • how river infrastructure affects tourism, the economy and urban mobility; • possible future uses of the Tura; • the obstacles to development and what can realistically be done today; • how piers help shape a city's identity.