Giant greenhouses near Tyumen: inside video of operations

When flying over Tyumen by plane, below suddenly flashes a sea of lights — as if landing not in Siberia, but somewhere in Dubai. This is not a city and not an industrial zone — it«s the TyumenAgro greenhouse complex, a true oasis among the fields. Step over the threshold — and it»s like being transported to the equator: humid air, heat, blinding light, and the aroma of fresh cucumbers. Here — eternal summer. Bright orange tomatoes hang in clusters, cucumber vines stretch upwards, and every day a new harvest is gathered — regardless of whether it«s winter or summer outside.

All 19 greenhouses with an area of more than 50 hectares — that«s like two and a half districts of Novo-Komarovo. Everything runs on its own energy: lamps burn for 18–20 hours a day, creating »summer under glass.« Even heat isn»t lost — it«s collected and used at night when the supplemental lighting is off. There are no chemicals here at all. Instead of pesticides — beneficial insects that protect the harvest from pests. The taste of the vegetables is the result of fine-tuning: agronomists select hybrids, regulate nutrition and watering, so that cucumbers are crispy and tomatoes are sweet.

How the city under glass is arranged and why the harvest here is higher in winter than in summer — watch in the video above.

More details on how the complex is arranged — were told in the report. Before that, we visited another equally well-known production. Potatoes — an indispensable base for many dishes. And this vegetable is also grown and processed in the Tyumen region. This is done by the company «KRiMM». Why is potatoes getting more expensive, what is a «cushion» for restaurants, and why does Tyumen need Egyptian potatoes when it has its own? More details — in the previous material.