The beautiful stone building at the intersection of Dzerzhinsky and Osipenko Streets is the former trade school.
The first part of the building was constructed in 1911. Then, in 1914, the second part was added, differing stylistically from the first. The date 1914 can be seen on the school's facade. Architecture experts describe the style as «provincial Art Nouveau». The school was built on the initiative and with the funding of the city mayor, first-guild merchant Andrey Ivanovich Tekutyev. It included both a classroom building and a foundry workshop. At the beginning of the 20th century, Tyumen was actively developing. A railway line had been laid through the city, which spurred rapid business growth and the construction of new factories. There was a great need for skilled workers.
The school building was one of the largest of its kind at the time and immediately became an architectural landmark in the city of Tyumen. The main academic building is a two-story elongated brick structure with a basement, consisting of two stylistically distinct parts. The facades of the earlier northwestern section, built in 1911, are done in an eclectic style, featuring inter-floor and sill belt courses, simple window surrounds with arched pediments (semi-circular «shelves» above window or door frames), niches, rusticated pilasters (flattened columns), and a traditional cornice decorated with sukhari – small rectangular projections arranged as ornamental details.
The second half of the building was designed by Tekutyev’s favored architect, Konstantin Pavlovich Chakin. In 1905, Chakin was appointed architect of the Tobolsk diocese and, in the same year, became the city architect of Tyumen. He held this position until 1919 and focused exclusively on stone construction. The southwestern wing, added in 1914, has a trapezoidal layout and features more expressive Art Nouveau architecture.
The main facade is composed of two side and one central risalit (a projecting section), all topped with curved attic pylons rising above the cornice. A distinctive feature of the facade is the variation in window shapes, unified by broad arched lintels. The spaces between the windows are filled with a fine linear ornament typical of the Art Nouveau style. In contrast to the ornate exterior, the interiors are purely functional. The first floor contains a large teaching hall with a frame construction.
In the courtyard stands a one-story foundry workshop. This workshop is the only surviving example of an industrial building in the Art Nouveau style in Tyumen.
