Tyumen is an important service center for the gas and oil industries in Russia. Due to its advantageous location at the crossing of the Motor, Rail, Water and Air way and its moderate climate Tyumen was an ideal base town for servicing the oil and gas industry of the West Siberia. As the result today Tyumen is the center of industry, science, culture, education and medicine.
Many world level oil and gas companies such as Gazprom, LUKoil and Gazpromneft, TNK-BP, Shell (Salym Petroleum Development N.V.) have their representative offices in Tyumen.
There are numerous, factories, engineering companies, oil industry service companies (KCA DEUTAG and Schlumberger), design institutes shipyard and other oil servicing companies located in Tyumen.
Tyumen is one of the Russian towns which have its own Technopark. UTair is also based in Tyumen.
Town has a quite good selection of recreational activities of all kinds for any ages. Tyumen is also a destination for a fair number of tourists, in particular from Germany.
There are three universities and several tens of colleges in Tyumen. Town is one of the Medical Centers of the Russian Federation so its population can receive most of high tech medical services locally without need to go to Moscow or elsewhere
