New Urengoy - what area? Novy Urengoy on the map of Russia

Perhaps you heard about a Russian city like Novy Urengoy: someone was passing there, and some live on a permanent basis today. However, if you ask a person to tell about this settlement and even show its location on the map, most will fall into a stupor. In order not to do this, in this article we will tell you everything about Novy Urengoy: to which area it relates, where it is located, what its history is and what can attract its attention here as visitors and natives.

One of the cities of Western Siberia: general information

The city of Novy Urengoy - to what area does it belong? To Tyumen, which, in turn, is an integral unit of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District. The city of Novy Urengoy is the largest populated district in the district and one of the few that outstrips the administrative center of its subject both in terms of industrial potential and population (it is a question of comparison with Salekhard). The city considered in this article is 450 km to the east from the latter; With Moscow, it is located in relation to the capital in the northeast, divides 2,350 kilometers. In addition, residents of the city of Novy Urengoy, in contrast to Muscovites, live in another time zone: thus, New Year and other holidays are traditionally first met 2 hours earlier. Today the city is home to about 116 thousand people. As a key link in the largest gas-bearing region, Novy Urengoy, whose location map will be presented below, is unofficially called the country's gas-producing capital.

Surrounding area

On the map Novy Urengoy is located on the bank of the river Evo-Yakha, which is a tributary of the Pura. In the city there are also 2 other fast-paced ones: it is Sede-Yakha and Tamchara-Yaha, conditionally dividing the settlement into the Northern and Southern parts. The area of urban areas on all sides is surrounded by the Purovsky district and heavily waterlogged areas. In total, Novy Urengoy (to which area the city belongs and what its general current situation is, has already been described above) covers an area of 113 square kilometers. At 60 kilometers north of it the Arctic Circle already begins.

Climatic conditions

So, if the area to which Novy Urengoy belongs now is clarified, it's time to move on to the analysis of provisions that have a more practical significance for a person-for example, how is the situation with the weather and mean temperatures? The climate of the city can be described as sharply continental. What does this mean? Since this locality is located at the intersection of 2 climatic zones of the forest-tundra zone, subarctic and temperate, a severe winter lasts for 9 months and a cool summer, delayed on average only for a little over 1 month. Important factors that affect weather conditions and shape the climate are the presence of permafrost, the proximity of the city to the sea, as well as the continuous circulation of air Atlantic masses. The average temperature in January is -21.7 degrees, in June - +9.1; While the relative humidity is 78%, and the average wind speed reaches only 3.4 m / sec. Frequent temperature changes in Novy Urengoy (the map of Russia helps to analyze all climate-forming positions and factors) are accompanied by snowstorms, snowstorms, blizzards. Most of the plain of the locality is bound by ice of permafrost, which in the summer time thaws only to a depth of 1 to 2 meters!

The beginning of history

It is a pity that the facts about the development of cities and, in particular, Novy Urengoy, on the map of Russia are not indicated - and there is not enough space, and the purpose for these directories is different. Few people vzbredet in the head to engage in the study of the historical formation of this particular locality, and very vain! The history of the city reveals many interesting things: from the very beginning it was closely intertwined with the development of the Urengoy gas field, which was opened in June 1966. However, in fact, the roots of the city's formation must be sought even earlier, namely in 1949, when Stalin's order in the circumpolar tundra zone began the construction of a transpolar railway track for the trains on the route Salekhard-Igarka. Lingering at the former trading post of Urengoy in the plans of the builders, most of them referring to the rest of the thousands of camp prisoners who were sent to build the road, did not enter. However, Stalin died, construction work was collapsed and forgotten, the constructed roads were called "dead", but for Urengoy it was a turning point: it was the unfinished railway junctions that helped drillers and seismic explorers discover deposits in these lands and quickly equip them. In January 1966, a new Urengoy structure was opened here. The pioneering team was the company of the employees of the seismic station V. Tsybenko, who occupied the barracks of the once abandoned camp where the prisoners of the Gulag had previously lived.

The further way

Subsequently, active extraction of minerals continued here: in June 1966, Master V. Polupanov and his team drilled the first exploratory well. It was then that a footnote appeared on the country map, pointing to the unique Urengoy natural gas field . September 1973 was marked by the fact that a peg with a sign and a symbolic inscription on it was hammered in place of the city that did not exist at that time: "New Urengoy" (where the city is located, we, the descendants, now know). In December, the construction of a village familiar to the Russians began today. The settlement developed rapidly, which was associated with an increase in the activity of gas produced in it. In 1980, previously not considered the city of Novy Urengoy (which region belongs to this place and what its historical formation, now everyone can answer) finally received the long-awaited status and was now called a city of district significance! Since 1984, gas from here began to be exported to Western Europe through the use of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline built in 1983.

In November 1984, in the subordination to Novy Urengoy and to the city council representing it, the Korotchaevo settlement crossed the administrative level, and in May 1988 - the settlement of Limbyakha. As a municipal entity, Novy Urengoy was established only in January 1996 with reference to one of the relevant laws of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, and in 2004 the aforementioned settlements ceased to exist as independent administrative and territorial elements and became part of the city of Novy Urengoy. As a result, the city with a length of 80 km has turned into one of the longest in the whole world!

Serious measures

An interesting fact is that in 2012 the city actually turned into a closed one, considering that there were no actual legal grounds for this. Entrance to the city could be carried out only on a special pass. Such drastic measures were needed because the crime rate on this territory approached a critically high value. Here, various terrorist organizations were active, and the situation had to be resolved in an emergency. There is also an unconfirmed hypothesis that such a practice of a throughput system was introduced to regulate the migration of the population, limiting the internal and external "turnover" of residents. Whatever it was, such a system in Urengoy, whose name, translated from one of the local Nenets dialects, means "ruinous place", lasted about six months and then was abolished.

Industry

New Urengoy, which is a fairly young city, manages to display extraordinary industrial potential. So, within the settlement there are 3 whales of the gas industry, each of which is a subsidiary of Gazprom: Tyumenburgaz, Yamburggazodobycha and Urengoygazprom. They account for about 74% of all gas produced in the country! Construction works on the renewal of railways are carried out by the Yamal Railway Company. 80% of river traffic falls on the Urengoy river port, which has dozens of ferries and tractors.

sights

Among the key places in Novy Urengoy, the street map of which will be proposed further, one can single out the Museum of Fine Arts, put into operation in 2015 a multifunctional, modern and technological station, the largest fountain in the Far North, visually reminiscent of a sail. On the roof of the shopping center "Helicopter", which is designed in eye-catching colors, visitors can see the layout of a real flying rotorcraft. Monuments and temples are also located in the city - real examples of architectural art and architecture (for example, the Epiphany Cathedral built in 2015, which is the tallest building in the city).

Education

In the territory of Novy Urengoy there are many universities, among them:

• Branch of the Moscow State Open University;
• Branch of Tyumen Oil and Gas University ;
• Branch of the Tobolsk State Pedagogical Institute. DI. Mendeleev University;
• Branch of Tomsk State University of Radioelectronics and Control Systems;
• Branch of the Moscow Open Social University (Institute) and others.

As you can see, here, in one of the cities of the Tyumen region, you can not just live, but do it successfully: learn, work and plan for the future.