TOBOLSK, RUSSIA

Founded by a Cossacks soldier named Yermak Timofeyevich, Tobolsk was the capitol of Siberia (When it was an independent country).  The main source of Tobolsk's prosperity was in trade with  Bukhara, Uzbekistan and also with China.  The exact year of Tobolsk's founding isn't known, but it's somewhere between 1585 to 1586.  Since Winter in Tobolsk, Siberia tends to be  −6.9 degrees to 9.1 degrees, Tobolsk was ideal for housing prisoners during Siberia's war against Sweden.  Most of those prisoners ended up becoming permenent residents (Partially because of life sentences).  Between the years 1820s or 1830s was cruel to Tobelsk, Siberia when the capitol of the country was moved to Omsk, Siberia (though replacement capitols of Siberia has duplicated Tobolsk's coat of arms out of respect).  Because of Siberia's reputation as the place to go for prison inmate incarceration, the failed Decembrist revolt against Czar Nicholas I as well as the Royal Family of Czar Nicholas II lived in Tobolsk, Siberia.  The Royal Family of Czar Nicholas II was eventually moved out of Tobolsk to be both relocated and shot to death in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast.  The Last Sunday of June is the town day of Tobolsk, Siberia.  Oh yeah, did I mention that a large portion of the town of Tobolsk, Siberia is built on top of a mountain and nestled nearby a river.