Nina Stepanovna Tsekhonova

Nina Stepanovna Tsekhonova – a local historian of the Kondinsky District. She was born in the village of Ashlyk in the Tyumen Region. After graduating from the agricultural school near Tobolsk, she worked in Yamal and in the 1930s was an educator at the school of the village of Karym in the Kondinsky District. During the Great Patriotic War Tsekhonova headed a fish cooperative, and after the war worked in the district party committee.

In the late 1960s Nina Stepanovna became interested in local history. She carried out extensive work collecting materials about the Kondinsky area, recorded the recollections of longtime residents and gathered ethnographic data. These materials formed the basis of the exhibition of the district local history museum.

On assignment from the district committee Tsekhonova researched the history of the establishment of Soviet power in the Kondinsky District. She worked in the archives of Tyumen and Tobolsk, studying documents and archival materials. The result of her research was several scholarly works devoted to the history and formation of the district. The district local history museum in the urban-type settlement Kondinskoye bears the name of Nina Stepanovna Tsekhonova. The museum hosts the "Tsekhnova Readings", named in her honor.