The palace was located on the site of the old clerk's chamber, built by Semyon Ulyanovich Remezov, on a high ravine between the Pryamskoy Vzvoz (gatehouse of the Tobolsk Kremlin) and the banks of the Irtysh river.

In the evening, Major Yakov Meibom, who was appointed mayor, second-major, and collegiate secretary Matvey Yurlov, 6 horse trumpeters and 12 hussars, informed Tobolyakov and guests of the city about the upcoming festivities.

Another cannon shot at 8:00 a.m. signalled the beginning of a church service led by Archbishop of Tobolsk and Siberia, which was attended by all officials.

According to the description of Abramov N.A., from the words of a participant in these celebrations:At the end of the Divine Liturgy and a prayer service, a procession with holy icons was made from the cathedral to the Tobolsk Viceroy's palace.

A magnificent illumination was arranged, shining with different colors of lights, at the Tobolsk Viceroy's palace, where a majestic picture depicting Empress Catherine II was installed.This description of the celebrations possibly belongs to Pyotr Slovtsov, a 15-year-old student of the Tobolsk Theological Seminary who read the ode "To Siberia" of his own composition at the celebrations from the seminary.

The oblast (region) is an intermediate link in territorial administration between the namestnichestvo (vicegerency) and the uezd (county).

By that, the administration of Empress Catherine II adapted the governing system to the vast Siberian territories.

[4] The Tobolsk Viceroyalty belongs to the I category (status, depending on which monetary payments were assigned to officials who served in them), uniting territories that had a more standardized administration.

The population of the Tobolsk Viceroyalty was represented by the following national and ethnic groups: Russians, Tatars, Сhuvalshchiki quitrents (Muslim settlers from other provinces, recorded as settled foreigners and endowed with 15 dessiatins of land[17]), Bukharians, Ostyaks, Voguls, Samoyeds, Tungus, Chapogirs (one of the Yenisei clans of Tungus[18]), and Yakuts.