Tiunen,

Tiunen, a town and important commercial centre of western Siberia, 90 miles SW. of Tobolsk, on the Tura, an affluent of the Tobol, and so of the Irish and Obi. Connected by rail with Perm and the Russian system, it is on several important trade routes both by land and water; and large quantities of leather, carpets, soap, candles, and pottery are manufactured and exported throughout Siberia, the Ural countries, the Kirghiz Steppes, Khokand, Bokhara, and China. It has a large scientific and technical school, and there is a great fair in January. Timmen contains an important exile forwarding prison (see books cited at SIBERIA). Pop. (1900) 25,500.