It is believed that the kerosene lamp was created in 1853 in the city of Lviv in Western Ukraine. While walking along the street in the evening, people saw a bright light near one of the pharmacies. It attracted a lot of attention. People visited the building en masse just to see this amazing invention.

The first lamp looked cumbersome because of the bulky plates surrounding the device. The cylinder-shaped lamp was made of thick metal. At the bottom, there was a container with kerosene. The glass that protected the wick from wind and moisture was above. The pharmacists Ignatius Lukasevich and Jan Zech placed the lamp in their pharmacy.

The light of the lamp was several times brighter than from any other sources known at that time. One kerosene lamp delivered the same amount of light in the room as ten candles. Every year the design became better, making its use more convenient.

An improved kerosene lamp could be compared to a 400-watt electric lamp. At the time of its creation, the properties of kerosene were practically unknown, and therefore many people were wary of this invention. After some time, the safety of the substance and the design itself were confirmed.

People began replacing conventional candles and oil lamps with kerosene devices. Kerosene lamps were in demand because they produced bright light, had an attractive price (as well as the raw materials needed for its operation) and looked smart.

Oil was actively extracted in the second half of the 19th century and in the early 20th century, so kerosene could be cheaply bought at a pharmacy or on the market. Thus, at the end of the 19th century, the product was launched into mass production.

Bronze lamps were standard and most popular, silver or gilded lamps were much less common. Over time, professional artists began to draw sketches for these products. They created original design models.

The device has remained popular to this day. Bright and original kerosene lamps are used to illuminate private areas, as an element of interior décor and by tourists.

Among the documents from the collection of the Uray City Historical Museum, there is a black-and-white photograph of the middle of the 20th century, which depicts the Motyshevs. The representatives of this family lived through the First World War, the period of the formation of Soviet power, the Civil and Great Patriotic War, and the period of post-war restoration of the national economy on the Konda River.

Tikhon Efimovich Motyshev (1901–1988), the head of the family, was at the origins of the creation of the Polovinka village and one of its large enterprises, the Uchinsky fish factory. He and his wife, Taisiya Evmenievna, lived together for 60 years.

Representatives of the family were engaged in various fields: in the Komsomol and party work, in pedagogy and agriculture. In 1919, Tikhon Efimovich was elected a deputy of the Pelymsky volost, later a deputy of the Satyginsky native Soviet.

He organized the first cooperatives, helped to open schools. In May 1920, he volunteered for the Red Army. Tikhon Motyshev participated in the organization of the first volunteer regiment in the city of Semipalatinsk. Then there was the liberation of the Caucasian bridgehead, the liberation of Crimea from the White Guards as part of the Latvian division. During his service, Tikhon Efimovich listened to the instructions of Trotsky and Kalinin near Kakhovka. In 1923, he retired.

During the Great Patriotic War, he fought in Tikhvin, liberated Leningrad, was seriously wounded and sent to work in the city of Ivanovo as part of the NKVD troops. He returned home in 1946 and again took up the post of the head of the collective farm.

Taisiya Evmenievna devoted herself to teaching, she taught girls and women who were from 14 to 35 years old. There were both Russians and Ostyaks among her students. Taisiya Evmenievna Motysheva was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945”.

One of their daughters, Raida Tikhonovna Petrachuk, became an instructor in agitation and propaganda, supervised the department for working with the national indigenous population in the city of Khanty-Mansiysk. In 1983, Raida Tikhonovna was elected secretary of the city party committee in Uray. For many years of work for the good of the Fatherland, she was awarded the Order of Friendship and three medals. Another daughter, Anna Tikhonovna Alekseeva, successfully defended her PhD thesis. She worked as an assistant professor at the Department of the History of the CPSU of the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute.