What village near Tobolsk was Dmitri Mendeleev born in?

Dmitri Mendeleev was born in the village of Verkhnie Aremzyani near Tobolsk.

Verkhnie Aremzyani was in Siberia, then part of the Russian Empire, and Mendeleev was born there on 8 February 1834 under the Gregorian calendar. His father, Ivan Mendeleev, was a teacher and school principal; his mother, Maria, came from a prominent Tobolsk merchant family.

Mendeleev was the youngest child in a very large family, although sources differ in how many siblings survived to adulthood. After his father lost his sight and died, Maria worked to support the family, including by reviving a glass factory. She later took Dmitri across Russia so he could pursue higher education in Saint Petersburg.

A common mistake is answering Tobolsk, because it was the nearest major town and a key place in his childhood. Tobolsk was not his birth village. Mendeleev later became famous for organizing the periodic table and predicting elements that had not yet been discovered.