The estate of the actual state councilor and elected member of the city Duma, Nikolay Ivanovich Davydovsky was built in the second half of the 19th century at the intersection of Znamenskaya and Podaruyevskaya Street, and opposite the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Sign. In 1870, he married a daughter of a wealthy Tyumen merchant Mikhail Korchyomkin and received a brewery as dowry. Nadezhda Mikhailovna, Korchyomkin’s daughter and Davydovsky’s wife, managed the brewery. The Tyumen brewery produced a variety of high quality beers, including “Viennese”, “Table”, “Munich”, “Bavarian”, “Pilsen” and others. In 1909, the beer of the Tyumen Davydovsky factory received Large gold medals and special prizes — the Grand Prix and a Large Honorary Cup — at trade fairs in Milan and London.
Besides managing the brewery, the merchant Nadezhda Davydovskaya opened a tobacco factory in Tyumen, as well as a beer restaurant on Tsarskaya Street, which was the main street of the city. The Davydovskys had two children: son Nikolay, and daughter Sophia. Nikolay died at the age of 30, and the daughter took over the brewery in the 1900s and renamed it to “The Brewery of S.N. Vasilyeva, the successor of N.M. Davydovskaya”.
In 1913, an advertisement was published. It informed consumers that “the latest technical acquisitions, applied for the first time in all of Western Siberia” at the new brewery “N.M. Davydovskaya’s successor” in Tyumen, “make it possible to offer a product of the highest, previously unattainable quality”. Especially recommended were the varieties “Cabinet”, “Export” and “March”, which received “the highest awards at foreign exhibitions”. Those who ordered by calling the phone number “84” were promised immediate delivery.
In the second half of 1914,
“due to the prohibition of beer trade from the day of the ongoing war”, Sophia Vasilyeva’s brewery stopped
working. In 1919, the Bolsheviks nationalized it. In the 1920s, the building
housed “NEP Brewery No. 2”.
Subsequently, the building belonged to the ATA plant. In 1942, the brewery was
moved from the old place on Tsiolkovsky Street, to Beregovaya Street, 19 in
Zarechye. There the Tyumen brewery operated until 1999, when it was closed due
to bankruptcy.