The house of Sergey Stepanovich Brovtsin at 40 Dzerzhinsky Street is particularly notable for its richly detailed carved décor. This two-story wooden house with a front entrance porch, built at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, is located not far from Respubliki Street.
It is a two-story wooden structure with an attached porch featuring a staircase at the main entrance. The façade is decorated with horizontal wooden siding, an inter-floor molding, paneled pilasters (columns), and characteristic Baroque window surrounds with applied sculptural Baroque-style carving. The window frames are adorned with lush vegetal ornamentation. In the center of the windowsill board is a large rosette from which leafy shoots extend to the sides.
At the southern corner of the house, there is a set of three-part estate gates. Recreated based on historical designs, they are decorated with applied three-dimensional carvings. Interestingly, these gates were not originally located here – they were intended for a house at 19 Osipenko Street, but after the original documentation was lost, they were relocated to this site.
Unfortunately, the interior of the house has been significantly altered, and its original layouts and decorative finishes have not been preserved.
The house was commissioned in the early 1900s by Sergey Stepanovich Brovtsin, a Tyumen petty bourgeois, municipal assessor, and member of the City Duma. It was part of a city estate. Despite his modest social status, Brovtsin owned two wooden two-story houses on Dzerzhinsky Street. He also owned properties at 24 and 28 Khokhryakova Street.
On March 30, 1987, the house was officially granted protected status as a regional cultural heritage site by a decision of the Executive Committee of the Tyumen Regional Council of People’s Deputies.
In the 1990s, the decorative façade carvings were restored by Vadim Makarovich Shitov – a renowned restorer in the Tyumen Region and a master of artistic woodcarving. The entrance porch was also reconstructed during this restoration.