Talitsa

Talitsa grew around a small private distillery established in 1732 by the Tyumen merchants Grigory and Pyotr Perevalov. The country near the Pyshma offered arable land, meadows, fishing and wild hops. Between 1774 and 1779 a state distillery was built on the site of the earlier works under Catherine II. Local inhabitants later helped lay out the Siberian road, which passed several versts away. By the early nineteenth century the Talitsa works had become one of Russia's larger distilleries.