The two-story brick building with a symmetrical U-shaped plan is a characteristic example of public architecture in the restrained classicist style of "brick style." The walls, divided by inter-floor bands, are evenly pierced with real and false windows with simple frames and keystone elements. The main entrance is located on the central axis and is decorated with a small brick vestibule.
In early 1902, the city mayor A. I. Tekutev announced the need to build a city hospital in Tyumen, which he promised to construct at his own expense and donate to the city. The administration allocated a plot of land next to the old cemetery.
In two years, a two-story stone hospital for 128 beds was built, costing Tekutev 45 thousand rubles. The project was developed by Tyumen architect Konstantin Chakin. The hospital included surgical, infectious, and therapeutic departments. In 1907, for his contributions, Andrei Ivanovich was awarded the title of honorary citizen of Tyumen and became a lifelong trustee of the hospital, which was named after Tekutev. During the Soviet era, it was known as the third city hospital, but many locals continued to refer to it by its old name.
The hospital employed well-known Tyumen doctors N. I. Russkikh, A. S. Gasilov, and S. I. Karnatsevich. Patients included not only locals but also individuals from other districts. The most famous patient of the Tekutev hospital was Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a healer and friend of the royal family. After an assassination attempt on him on June 29, 1914, he was brought to the Tyumen hospital on July 3 by surgeon A. S. Vladimirov. In memory of this event, a sculpture of Rasputin was installed on the hospital grounds.
In 1915, the number of wounded soldiers from World War I increased in Tyumen, necessitating the construction of a new stone hospital. However, a year later, Andrei Ivanovich passed away, leaving funds in his will for the completion and maintenance of the hospital: "...I bequeath 25 thousand rubles for the completion, and also designate 25 thousand rubles for the eternal maintenance of the hospital, which is kept in the State Bank, and the interest to be used for the hospital's upkeep."
Over the years, the hospital building underwent numerous reorganizations and changes in its activities. Before the revolution, it housed a surgical clinic, then an ambulance station, city hospital No. 5, and later city and regional hospital No. 3. Since July 2011, the building has become part of the perinatal center complex.
A memorial plaque in honor of A. I. Tekutev is installed on the hospital building.
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