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Geographical location and history of Novy Urengoy

The city of Novy Urengoy is the unofficial gas capital of Russia, a city of gas workers, construction workers, unforgettable white nights and simply beloved Nur, so affectionately nicknamed by local residents. A city where white nights reign in summer, and gray snow rules in winter...

It is not surprising that throughout the summer it is as light at night as during the day. After all, Novy Urengoy is located in the northern part of Western Siberia, only 60 km south of the Arctic Circle on the coast of the Evoyakha River, a tributary of the Pura. And it seems that the very existence of Urengoy is also inextricably linked with rivers - two small rivers flow through the city - Tamchara-Yakha and Sede-Yakha, dividing its territory into two large regions - Northern and Southern.

And the name of the city “Urengoy” is due to the combination of the Khanty and Nenets words “Ure” and “Ngo”, meaning “oxbow lake” and “island” or an island on the site of the old river bed.

Some sources interpret the translation of the word “Urengoy” as “bald hill” or “hill covered with yellow grass,” but earlier the name of the city was translated as “a lost place,” so nicknamed by Gulag prisoners. Actually, it was from the Gulag that the history of the city began back in 1949, when, near New Urengoy, its prisoners, on the orders of Stalin, began to build the Salekhard-Igarka railway, which after his death was declared economically unfeasible, the work was curtailed, and the road was nicknamed “dead.”

Only years later, employees of the Tsibenko seismic station would borrow one of the Gulag camps as a base, and later discover the first gas field, later named Urengoyskoye. So in June 1966, in Urengoy, the team of master Polupanov would cut the first exploration well, and a new Urengoy natural gas field would appear on the geological map of the USSR - the largest in the world in terms of hydrocarbon production.

However, active development of the city will begin only in 1973, when the first convoy arrives from the village of Pangody to the site of the future settlement in order to begin construction of the city. In 1975, Novy Urengoy was registered as a village, and already in 1978, Urengoygazdobycha emerged - the largest production association, which reached the production of the first billion cubic meters of Urengoy gas by May 30 of the same year. Just two years later, in 1980, Novy Urengoy received the status of a city, and already in 1983, through the constructed Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, Urengoy gas began to flow to Western European countries.

After which the city continues to develop at a rapid pace and soon surpasses the administrative capital of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Salekhard, in economic indicators and population, becoming the second largest city in the district and second only to Noyabrsk. Today, about 550 billion cubic meters of natural gas are produced annually in Yamal, where the leading role belongs to the enterprises of Novy Urengoy, and the city itself is among the top ten in terms of per capita income in the Russian Federation.

“I came out of the forest; there was a severe frost" or all about the climate and ecology of Novy Urengoy

However, this “income” is not so easy for the residents of Novy Urengoy, who live in harsh climatic conditions, as evidenced even by the entries in their work books - “Region of the Far North”. Despite the fact that Novy Urengoy is located in the temperate continental climate zone, the city’s territory falls on its northernmost part, bordering on a subarctic climate, and therefore the weather conditions here are appropriate. The average annual air temperature in the city fluctuates between – 5.7°C, and the average annual humidity is 78%.

Winters in Urengoy are long and cold (about 284 days a year) and, as in Nekrasov’s poem, are characterized by “severe frosts.” The lowest temperatures occur in January and February. And although the monthly averages for these months are -21.7 and -20.1°C, during this period the thermometer often drops below -30°C, often remaining at -45°C.

During periods of such severe cold weather, schoolchildren are announced on all local TV channels forced holidays - “aktiki”, and on days of particularly severe frosts, even some organizations are closed. Just as hard as the severe cold, local residents endure during the winter season is the short duration of daylight hours, averaging 1.5-2 hours, while on the shortest day of the year - the winter solstice - the sun appears in Novy Urengoy and only for 1 hour and 5 minutes.

But the main attraction of summer in the city, as opposed to winter, are the white nights, lasting from June to August, and the warmest period occurs in July with average monthly temperatures of +15.1°C. Despite the fact that summer in the city lasts only about 35 days, often at this time in Novy Urengoy there is suffocating heat of about +25..+30°C.

The amount of precipitation that falls during the year is quite insignificant and amounts to no more than 400 mm. Another characteristic feature of the city is strong winds (10-15 m/sec, or even higher) and sudden temperature changes, during which thermometers can change their readings by 15-20°C during the day.

But the environmental situation in the city, despite its “gas-producing status,” is characterized by enviable stability. The main industrial enterprises of Novy Urengoy are located far beyond the city limits, in its so-called industrial zone, household waste, along with snow in winter, is regularly removed, and any unauthorized landfills in Novy Urengoy are immediately punishable by huge fines. In 2010, a workshop for recycling mercury-containing lamps, including fluorescent lamps, was also opened in Nura.

The “multinational” face of Urengoy residents – features of the city’s population

Harsh natural conditions could not but affect the demographic characteristics of New Urengoy. And, despite the fact that the gas capital is the second most populous city in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, according to 2012 data, only 106 thousand people live in Novy Urengoy. However, for the conditions of the Far North, this is practically a record, especially considering the fact that in 1979 the number of Urengoy residents did not even reach the ten thousand mark, amounting to only 8,580 people.

But the development of the city proceeded at a rapid pace. After the opening of Urengoygazdobycha, the need for labor resources increased every year, an increasing number of people working in gas and engineering and construction specialties came to the city, and by 1989 more than 93 thousand people lived in Nura. It is after this point that the population begins to grow, mainly not due to incoming labor resources, but naturally due to the birth rate. In 2002, the number of Urengoy residents reached 94.5 thousand people, and statistics at the beginning of 2014 already indicate 115.8 thousand city residents.

It is not for nothing that Novy Urengoy is called the city of the future and youth. The demographic situation of Nur is characterized by enviable stability and with a birth rate of about 14 people per 1000 Urengoy residents (2011), today the number of its residents under the age of 18 is more than 25% of the total population of the city.

The working population of Urengoy is also large (over 60% of the total), which is primarily due to the fact that after retirement, most Urengoy residents move for permanent residence to the central regions of the country on their own or under a local resettlement program. The majority of the working population consists of workers at gas production enterprises with narrow technical specialties, engineers, builders and service workers.

Another typical feature of the population of the unofficial gas capital is its multinationality. Today, representatives of more than 40 nationalities live in Novy Urengoy, most of whom are Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Chechens and Dagestanis, Circassians, as well as other people from the southern Russian republics, including countries of the post-Soviet space. Based on this, the city’s believing population is divided into two main groups: Christians (the vast majority) and Muslims.

Districts and real estate of New Urengoy

But territorially, according to official documentation, the city of Novy Urengoy is divided into four large districts: northern and southern, as well as the districts of Limbayakha and Korotchaevo. The first two districts, popularly called “Severka” and “Yuzhka”, actually represent the city itself and are separated by a tundra zone and two rivers.

But the districts of Limbayakha and Korotchaevo are more than 70 km away from the center of New Urengoy, and until 2004 they were autonomous administrative-territorial units. However, in September 2004, a referendum was held among the population of these villages on the desire of the residents to become part of the city of Novy Urengoy, as a result of which, by a majority of votes, it was decided to transform the villages of Limbayakha and Korotchaevo into areas of the “gas capital”. Thus, Novy Urengoy acquired two districts significantly removed from its center and became one of the longest cities in the world with a total length of more than 80 km.

However, the Urengoy residents themselves still consider Korotchaevo and Limbayakha to be separate villages, and their two inextricably linked parts, the northern and the southern, are considered districts of the city.

Yuzhka, as a district of New Urengoy, is the oldest part of the city, from which the history of the emergence and development of Urengoy actually began. It was here on September 23, 1973, on the site of the future city, under the famous words of the Minister of Gas Industry Sabit Orujov: “Here will be the city of gas workers and builders Urengoy,” a symbolic peg was driven into the ground.

Today, the southern part of the city is the location of most administrative and public institutions. The main places of “meeting and parting” in the city are located here - the railway station and the airport,

and the main points of “treatment and rehabilitation” of New Urengoy - the Municipal City Hospital and the largest private medical clinic “Scanner”, as well as the “favorite authorities” of entrepreneurs, accountants and the rest of the working population of the city - pension, social insurance and tax services.

Geographically, the south also owns the migration service, the registry office, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the traffic police, a mosque and an Orthodox church under construction. Actually, the main city-forming and largest gas industry enterprises are concentrated in the southern part of the city. These are Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy and Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, as well as Burgaz, Rospan International, Rosneftegaz, etc.

But the “conventional center” of the southern part of New Urengoy is occupied by the Gazodobytchik Cultural and Sports Center and the main square of the city, where all the most significant events of the “gas capital” take place. Not far from the square is the picturesque Nameless Lake, surrounded by a small park. In summer, seasonal cafes operate along its shores, and in winter, you can ride on a snowmobile or a reindeer sleigh on the frozen lake (during the holiday of the Northern Peoples).

Although, unlike the northern part of New Urengoy, the fabric of the south is mostly woven from parallel and intersecting streets (central Leningradsky Prospekt, Sibirskaya Street, Geologorazvedchikov, 26 Congress of the CPSU, etc.), and not from the usual microdistricts, the location of residential buildings is here also distinguished by its “northern compactness”.

And each “mini-group” of residential high-rise buildings certainly has its own school, kindergarten, pharmacy and supermarket (shopping center) or several grocery stores.

And in order to become the owner of an apartment in one of these residential areas of New Urengoy, you will have to pay a tidy sum. Thus, according to average estimates, the cost of one-room apartments in the southern part of the city today on the secondary market is about 3.2-3.5 million rubles (depending on the condition of the housing, square footage, number of floors, distance from the bus stop, etc.).

Housing in wooden houses, the so-called KDMO, is much cheaper, and there are fewer and fewer of them in Novy Urengoy every year. So, on average, a one-room apartment in such a building can cost a potential buyer 2 million rubles. But since such real estate is often sold even without a warrant (at prices of 100-300 thousand rubles), there are very few, if not very few, people willing to purchase it.

Urengoy residents are also in no hurry to buy up the newfangled townhouses that have recently sprung up like mushrooms on the outskirts of the southern part of the city. And although their prices are not much higher than the prices for housing in apartment buildings, not everyone dares to buy a private house built on permafrost territory.

Housing in the northern part of the city, which was developed later than the southern part and is rightfully considered its residential area, is no less expensive, if not more. Well, since most of the houses here are newer than in the south, the cost of one-room apartments ranges from 3.2-3.7 million rubles (resale), and the residential buildings themselves are located in the city’s neighborhoods adjacent to each other: Druzhba, Mirny, Yubileiny , Soviet, Eastern and Student.

As in the south, almost every district has complete infrastructure - its own school, kindergarten, pharmacy and a number of shops or even a shopping center. By the way, all residential buildings in the city are maintained by management companies and the administration in good, often excellent condition: every spring, snow and ice are cleared from the roofs, and the facades of the most “dilapidated” houses are re-plastered, repainted, and sometimes even re-clad.

In the northern part of New Urengoy there are much fewer administrative and public buildings than in the southern part. The city administration and departments of the clinic and passport office are located here. Among the city-forming enterprises in the north, one can name the Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy branch. But the real decorations of the north are rightfully considered its temple, “campus” and park.

Beyond the outskirts of the Druzhba microdistrict, on the picturesque coast of the Sede-Yakha River, the wooden temple of St. Seraphim of Sarov rises majestically.

Just a few minutes walk from it there is a young park with a unique summer fountain. Well, in the very “heart” of the northern part of the city there is a student town with the Novy Urengoy Technical School of the Gas Industry and the square with the Victory Monument located in front of it.

Infrastructure of Nur - a paradise in three dimensions

As they say, we won’t take it with one, but with the other. And if the natural conditions of the city, with their harshness, are not conducive to a joyful stay in it, then the infrastructure of New Urengoy, on the contrary, is thought out to the smallest detail for the joy and convenience of local residents. Moreover, this can be said with confidence both about transport and about the industrial and social infrastructure of Nura - a kind of paradise in three dimensions.

Thus, Novy Urengoy can safely boast of 100% availability of all means of transportation. At the same time, air transport has always been and remains the most popular in the city. Today, the local airport receives aircraft from Moscow (3-5 flights daily), the northern capital - St. Petersburg (at least a flight per week), as well as Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Salekhard, etc. During the “warm period”, seasonal flights operate between Novy Urengoy and Krasnodar, as well as Nur and Mineralnye Vody.

No less developed in the gas capital is the railway service, represented mainly by Russian Railways trains. So, a train departs from Urengoy every day to Moscow, and according to this message, the Yamal branded train also runs on schedule. In addition, trains depart from the Urengoy station to Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, etc., and the railway connection itself plays an important role in freight turnover. The local river port, located in Korotchaevo and being a transport artery between the cities and towns of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Northern Sea Route, also plays an equally important role in the city’s economy. The Urengoy River Port bears the lion's share of cargo delivery for local construction and gas production enterprises.

The city's transport network is also very developed: in addition to the main roads crossing the territory of Nur, the city has bypass routes, and in its southern part a local viaduct was built for optimal transport interchange.

That is why there are practically no traffic jams in Novy Urengoy, with the exception of a slight congestion of the highway in the morning hours (from 7 to 9 am), and the main ones are caused either by accidents on the roads or by the “slipping” of freight trains under the viaduct. The road surface in the city itself is of high quality; moreover, in “problem areas”, repair work is carried out every summer and new asphalt is laid. In recent years, a tradition has emerged every summer to expand the highway in some area of Urengoy.

In addition, due to the city’s low supply of garages, the Urengoy administration annually increases the area of “parking spaces” near houses by increasing the driveways in front of them.

As mentioned earlier, housing and communal services are not lagging behind: the areas adjacent to houses, as well as the entrances to them, are regularly cleaned by Urengoyzhilservice employees, and in winter they are cleared of snow. Actually, this diligence is partly caused by the high prices for utilities in Nura, where, for example, 1 cubic meter of hot water costs Urengoy residents on average 104 rubles, cold water - 28 rubles, with the cost of a cubic meter of sewerage being 31 rubles. And the very “maintenance” of housing, for example, a small one-room apartment, will cost about 1,400 rubles per month; a slightly smaller amount, about 1,150 rubles, will have to be paid for its monthly heat supply. At the same time, the cost of 1 thousand cubic meters of natural gas costs Urengoy residents 2,686 rubles, which is only 27 rubles per month for the maintenance of one stove. Average prices for electricity in the city are 1.7 rubles per 1 kWh.

Social infrastructure is also very developed in Novy Urengoy. There are more than 38 preschool institutions, 24 schools in the city, including a local gymnasium, a secondary evening school and 2 elementary schools. The doors of the local Support Center are open for children with developmental disabilities, and Urengoy youth can receive secondary vocational education in a number of local schools, including the gas industry technical school. In addition, 7 branches of Russian universities have been opened in the city, the most important among which is the Yamal Oil and Gas Institute.

Nur's healthcare sector is represented by 11 medical institutions, with the largest of them being the municipal city multidisciplinary hospital. In addition, the gas capital has 17 sports institutions, as well as a number of city palaces and cultural and sports centers.

Deserved status of the gas capital - enterprises and work in Novy Urengoy

In fact, Novy Urengoy received the unofficial status of the “gas capital” of Russia quite deservedly, because the leading role in the economic complex of the city belongs to the gas industry. Thus, the city-forming enterprises of Nur are such global industrial giants as Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy, Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, a branch of Urengoy Drilling, Gazprom Podzemremont Urengoy, as well as other large enterprises such as Rospan International, " Arcticgaz", "Achimgaz", "Rosneftegaz", etc., which own more than 74% of all gas production in the Russian Federation.

It is worth noting that the fuel and energy industry of the city employs more than 80% of the city’s labor resources. At the same time, the main players in the fuel sector are Urengoygazprom, Yamburggazdobycha, Burgaz, Sibneftegaz, etc., while in the foreground in the electric power industry are Tyumenenergo, Urengoyskaya GRES, Mobile Power Stations Urengoy. and "Mobile Energy".

Second fiddle after the fuel and energy complex in the economy of New Urengoy is played by the food industry, represented by a number of enterprises producing fish, meat and sausage, smoke-dried and dairy products, as well as various semi-finished products and bakery products. The actual production of confectionery and bakery products makes up a large part of the food industry in New Urengoy. And here it is impossible not to mention such leaders as the branch of Zapsibgaztorg - Urengoygaztorg, Yamal-plus, Ankor, Topaz and Revansh.

In the gas capital, the Novy Urengoy Water and Clean Water enterprises also produce soft drinks and drinking water, and the Assortment and Urengoygazdorstroymaterialy organizations supply local beer to the city’s shelves. In addition, about 400 retail trade enterprises, 6 food, mixed and clothing markets, as well as 36 public catering organizations and about 13 consumer services enterprises supply city residents with industrial and food products.

In recent years, namely a decade, several large shopping centers and entertainment complexes have been built in the city.

These include the Helicopter and Hudson shopping centers, which belong to the same owners and are essentially one chain based on the Anchor grocery supermarket, which is also represented in the city and in other shopping centers, for example, in the Yamal shopping and entertainment complex. .

But the pioneers include the Urengoygaztorg retail chain, whose products are presented in the large shopping centers “Siberia”, “Victoria”, “White Nights” and “Desyatochka”.

There are also chains of supermarkets for household chemicals and cosmetics in the city, such as Optima and Lyubimy, Letual, as well as large furniture stores and electronics supermarkets, including M-Video and Expert. Pharmacy chains in Novy Urengoy are represented by pharmacies “Rigla”, “Scanner”, “Health of the North”, etc.

In recent years, incredible competition has also flared up in the field of “fashion and beauty” - more than 10 beauty salons, hairdressers and ateliers have been opened in the city, as well as in the provision of legal and accounting services. The banking sector is dominated by two Russian giants - Sberbank, Gazprombank - and several largest Siberian banks Zapsibkombank, Sibneftebank, Khanty-Mansiysk Bank, etc. And all of the above for only 106 thousand inhabitants, which indicates high economic development of the city.

But the sphere of information support in Novy Urengoy is occupied by four print media and a similar number of local television and radio companies.

Criminal Novy Urengoy – gangster 90s and “clan” 2000s

By the way, a considerable share of the latter’s broadcasting is occupied by local crime reports. And if in the fateful 90s they were mainly devoted to local gang wars on the topic of “redividing an already divided world,” as well as reports about growing drug addiction, including children’s, then in the last decade, more and more often, reports about resonant conflicts based on interethnic strife. And the main participants in them are representatives of local southern diasporas, for example, the Chechen one, and “clanism” in Urengoy still remains one of the main problems of the local police.

So in 2008, during a birthday celebration, which was attended by about 10 people of Slavic nationality, a group of Caucasians of about 40 people unexpectedly appeared at the celebration, who subsequently started a fight using knives and shooting. As it turned out, one of the guys present at the birthday party had previously had a conflict with them, which the Caucasians decided to “resolve” at the time of their arrival. The result of the fight was the murder of a young man, Alexander Stakhov, and two more guys with knife wounds were urgently hospitalized in a local hospital.

After this incident, there were several more interethnic conflicts in the city, ending in fights and shootings. That is why later in Novy Urengoy, additional round-the-clock patrols of Nur were introduced to help the police in order to strengthen control over the criminal situation in the city.

At the beginning of 2012, steps were also taken to “close” Novy Urengoy as a city of industrial importance, to which visitors could only enter strictly by invitation or challenge. At the entrance to the city, “border” posts were set up, and inspection at the airport was supplemented by passport control. However, this practice did not last long and once again, for about the tenth time, the so-called “closure” of the city was a fiasco.

Urengoy tourist

In fact, ordinary guests of the city, tourists, as well as people coming to Urengoy on business visits, for whom the closure of the gas capital meant, first of all, paperwork, could not help but rejoice at this fiasco. Today they can freely visit the city, because, despite its obvious “youth” for the city, Novy Urengoy can safely boast of the presence of many local attractions.

Guests of the city should first of all visit the local stela of New Urengoy - a symbolic monument to the gas capital, located at the entrance to the city. And of course, cross the “invisible” line - the border of the Arctic Circle, on which a unique metal monument in the form of a sphere is installed.

Also in the city you can see a themed Victory memorial, where flowers are laid on each anniversary,

get acquainted with the pedestal “Pioneers of the development of Urengoy”, located in front of one of the divisions of Urengoygazprom,

visit the local city museum of fine arts and simply relax in the green park area “Druzhba” with its luxurious sail fountain.

Nature lovers can also visit Nameless Lake, which borders a small residential area in the southern part of the city.

Well, for those guests who love to eat deliciously, dance and relax in style, there are dozens of Urengoy cafes, restaurants and night clubs. The restaurants “Old Castle”, “Banker”, “Polar Owl” and “Lyon” are distinguished by their special sophistication, but a stay in them may seem somewhat expensive to guests who are not accustomed to “northern” prices. Thus, a table at the Banker club will cost its visitors about 4,000 rubles: payment for tables in this club is required, and for this amount you can order about two servings of excellent shish kebab, a side dish, a couple of salads and light cocktails.

The Madagascar cafe and a number of cafes and eateries in the Hudson, Helicopter and Siberia shopping centers have more affordable prices. Here you can simply chat with friends over a cup of aromatic coffee with cinnamon and taste excellent cottage cheese pie. But the famous McDonald's is not in the city yet, but it is being successfully replaced by a cafe with a similar menu - “In Great Demand”. In the city you can relax in two bowling clubs in “Polar Owl” and “Yamal”, and lovers of active recreation can play paintball and conquer the local skald.

In winter, you can ride snowmobiles and admire the local ice town, which is built every year on the main square by genius architects. Actually, in Novy Urengoy in winter, even mini-bell towers are built from snow on Epiphany days, and on the Sede-Yakha River, ice holes are cut and fonts are installed for all Christians who want to take a dip. Well, after just a month and a half, in early to mid-March, great folk festivities begin - the Festival of the Peoples of the North, where you can taste delicious venison and kebab from northern fish, ride a sleigh in a reindeer sled and just admire the faces of those who inhabited this city long before its development.

New Urengoy was built literally from scratch, in the tundra, from scratch. Moreover, it even appeared quite by accident: half a century ago, geologists who were “stuck” in these places by coincidence drilled a well and discovered one of the world’s largest natural gas deposits! A little later, they began to build a village for gas workers, and over time it turned into a fairly large city. According to one version, “Urengoy” means “lost place.” Living conditions here are truly not resort conditions. But it’s worth it: more than 70% of all Russian gas is produced in the Novy Urengoy region.

1. The city of Novy Urengoy is located in the permafrost zone in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, surrounded by tundra, swamps and hundreds of tiny lakes.

2. The local rivers Tomcharu-Yakha and Sede-Yakha, as well as railway and highways, divide the city into Northern and Southern residential parts - these are their official names. The northern one is larger in size; The southern one is older, it has a historical center - if, of course, such a concept is applicable to a city that is a little over 40 years old.

3. Cultural and sports complex "Gazodobytchik". Organizing leisure time in harsh regions is a task of paramount importance.

At Gazodobytchik they hold concerts (there are several halls of different sizes), get healthy and keep yourself in good shape in the fitness center, gyms and sports sections. For the eye and soul - a winter garden.

4. Leningrad Avenue.

5. New Urengoy was built from scratch, so it is distinguished by its strict and linear layout. Today about 113 thousand people live here. For Russia, this is a rare occurrence when a “non-capital” city in a region surpasses the administrative center in all respects. For comparison: the population of the formally main city of the Yamalo-Nenets Okrug, Salekhard, does not reach 50 thousand people.

9. Shopping centers "White Nights" and "Prospect". There are quite a few large modern shopping and entertainment complexes in Novy Urengoy.

7. Railway station Novy Urengoy.

By rail, you can only get to Novy Urengoy through Tyumen (hereinafter Tobolsk, Surgut, Noyabrsk from the southwestern direction). They started to build a line to the west from Novy Urengoy to Salekhard, but they only brought it to Nadym. The station in Novy Urengoy is compact, there are two dozen tracks at the station, and only two platforms.

8. The street of the 26th Congress of the CPSU is the only one in the world with this name (however, in Chelyabinsk Kopeysk there is also a street 26 Party Congress).

9. Most of the residential apartment buildings in Novy Urengoy were erected during the Soviet years according to standard designs. The natural environment here is also quite bleak most of the year. The city, like many others in the North, is “saved” by the colorful painting of buildings.

10. Shopping center "Yamal".

11. Lake Molodezhnoe within the boundaries of New Urengoy - holidays of national sports are held here, summer snowmobile races are organized on the water, and fishing enthusiasts sit on the shores with a fishing rod - for the sake of relaxation. The small lake was formed in the same way as most similar ones in these places: the depression left by the glacier was filled with its own water. Moreover, the bottom of such lakes is usually unmelted permafrost.

12. Sports center on Geological Prospectors Street. Owned by Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg LLC.

13. They say that New Urengoy appeared almost by accident - thanks to seismic geologists and... drought. In the mid-60s, due to the dried-up Pur River, geologists and their barges were stuck near these places. In order not to waste time, they decided to explore the local territory. And in June 1966, the third “super-giant” Urengoy gas field in the world was discovered. The settlement of gas workers was first called Yagelnoye, and in 1975 it was registered under the name Novy Urengoy. It received city status in June 1980 - the settlement grew along with the rate of gas production.

14. Central office of Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy LLC.

This is a wholly owned subsidiary of PJSC Gazprom. One of the two (along with Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg LLC) city-forming enterprises of New Urengoy.

Gazprom dobycha Urengoy is developing the Urengoy oil and gas condensate field. In 2008, the enterprise exceeded the milestone of 6 trillion cubic meters of gas: no other enterprise in the world received so much fuel from one field. The record is recorded in the Russian Book of Records.

15. The infrastructure of the world's largest gas production department, Urengoy, today includes 16 gas and gas condensate fields, more than 2 thousand kilometers of pipeline networks.

Novy Urengoy enterprises account for 74% of the gas produced in Russia.

16. The viaduct, a road overpass over the railway in the center of Novy Urengoy, took about 10 years to build. It was designed in the shape of a crescent because it was impossible to make a straight bridge due to the existing buildings.

17. Northern part of the city.

18. Memory Square.

One of the main attractions of New Urengoy - the Three Wars Memorial - was opened in September 2005 to mark the 30th anniversary of the city. The three-part stele symbolizes the feat of three generations of soldiers who fought in the Great Patriotic War, in Afghanistan and the North Caucasus. The eternal flame was lit from a torch at one of the gas fields near Novy Urengoy.

19. Street of Friendship of Peoples.

It has the unofficial name “Armenian Avenue”: during the construction of New Urengoy, tuff houses were erected here by builders from the Armenian SSR. They worked on a rotational basis, but many of them later remained to live in the north of Russia.

20. In Novy Urengoy they sometimes joke that there is no summer here: spring and autumn occur in June, July and August, and the rest of the time it is winter. Of course, this is an exaggeration. In summer it can be hot here (over +30 degrees). But still, the climate is, of course, harsh - the cold winter lasts more than 280 days a year.

21. Microdistrict Student in the northern part of the city.

22. Valeria Zakharenkov Street is named after the pioneering gas producer, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of the USSR State Prize.

23. Hotel and business center "Stroitel".

24. Administration of the city of Novy Urengoy.

25. Sports and fitness complex "Star".

26. Microdistrict "Tundrovy". Residential complex with new buildings in the city center.

27. Optimist microdistrict in the southern part of New Urengoy. On one side of the residential area there is a mosque, on the other - the Orthodox Epiphany Cathedral.

28. Shopping center "Solnechny".

The duration of the shortest daylight hours of the year in Novy Urengoy is 1 hour 7 minutes on the winter solstice.

29. The Evo-Yakha River, a tributary of the Pura, flows through Novy Urengoy. The banks are swampy.

30. Dachas near the Arctic Circle! DNT "Friendship".

31. The Gazprom Polar Circle stela is installed on the Novy Urengoy - Yamburg highway at the intersection point with the 66th parallel, the conventional line of the Arctic Circle. The memorial sign was installed in 2013 in honor of the 35th anniversary of Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy.

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Books

Gazprom City, Simmel Christina, Bontam Suzanne, Panzer Sophie. “If you want to drink a cup of coffee in the morning, turn on the stove, but there is no gas coming out, then you know that something has gone wrong in Novy Urengoy.” What connects Europe with the big city beyond the Polar...
Formation of a model of innovative development of small and medium-sized businesses and the district Himgrad of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, A. Brysaev. A conceptual analysis was carried out and a model of innovative development of small and medium-sized businesses was developed in the city of Gubkinsky Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Opportunities for creating have been identified and a development strategy has been developed...

Novy Urengoy is a medium-sized city in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, located on the Sede-Yakha and Evo-Yakha rivers, 452 kilometers from Salekhard. The area of the settlement is 221 square kilometers.

General data and historical facts

In the summer of 1966, the Urengoy natural gas field was discovered on the site of the modern city.

In June 1973, the Yagelnoye settlement for gas workers was founded. In June 1975, the first well was put into operation. In the same year, the village of Novy Urengoy was founded and construction of an airport began.

In September 1976, the first school in the village admitted 72 students. Two years later, the Urengoygazdobycha organization was created.

In the spring of 1978, full-scale production and comprehensive gas treatment began at the Urengoy field.

At the end of May 1978, the first billion cubic meters of blue fuel were extracted in Novy Urengoy.

In 1980, the settlement of gas workers was transformed into a city of district significance.

In 1982, a railway was built through Novy Urengoy, which connected the city with other parts of the country.

In 1983, the main export gas pipeline "Urengoy - Uzhgorod" was built, through which gas began to be exported to European countries a year later.

In the 1980s, the villages of Korotchaevo and Limbayakha were transferred to the subordination of the city council of Novy Urengoy.

In 1996, in accordance with Law No. 34 of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the municipal district of Novy Urengoy was created.

In December 2004, development of the Pestsovoye gas field began. In 2005, on the 30th anniversary of the city, an eternal flame and the first city fountain were opened.

In 2006, Memory Square was opened in the Student district of the city.

Industrial enterprises: Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy LLC, Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg LLC, Sibneftegaz OJSC, Severneft-Urengoy LLC, Urengoymontazhpromstroy OJSC, Severneftegazprom OJSC, Urengoyskaya State District Power Plant.

The city operates on Yekaterinburg time. The difference with Moscow time is +4 hours msk+4.

Telephone code of Novy Urengoy - 3494. Postal code - 629300.

Climate and weather

A sharply continental climate prevails in Novy Urengoy. Winters are very frosty and long. The average temperature in January is -20.7 degrees.

Summer is cool and short. The average temperature in July is +17.1 degrees.

Total population of New Urengoy for 2018-2019

Population data was obtained from the State Statistics Service. Graph of changes in the number of citizens over the past 10 years.

The total number of residents in 2017 is 113.2 thousand people.

The data from the graph shows a steady decrease in the population from 117,000 people in 2007 to 113,254 people in 2017.

The following nationalities live in the city: Russians - 64.1%, Ukrainians - 10.8%, Tatars - 5%, Nogais - 2.6%, Kumyks - 2%, Azerbaijanis - 2%, Bashkirs - 1.7%, Chechens - 1.1%, Belarusians - 1.1%, Moldovans - 1%, Chuvash - 0.6%, others - 5.5%.

As of January 2018, Novy Urengoy ranked 149th out of 1,113 cities in the Russian Federation in terms of population.

Attractions

1. Shopping center "Helicopter" - a modern shopping center that meets all Russian standards. The shopping center houses various restaurants and cafes.

2. Borehole Monument - the monument was erected in honor of the first well, which was drilled on June 6, 1966.

3. A monument to the first train - locomotive TEZ-3003 was installed on the 30th anniversary of Novy Urengoy in front of the railway station building.

Transport

There is a regional airport 4 kilometers from the city, from which there are air connections with major Russian cities.

There are three railway stations in Novy Urengoy, connecting the city with Yamburg, Salekhard, Noyabrsky, Kogalym, Surgut, Nefteyugansk.

Public transport is represented by 9 bus routes.

Buses regularly depart from the city bus station to Nadym, Surgut, Ufa,

New Urengoy



Subject of the federation:	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
City district:	City of Novy Urengoy



Population:	119,624 people (2010)
Timezone:	UTC+5, in summer UTC+6
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Interesting Facts

Twin Cities

New Urengoy- a city in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District of the Tyumen Region, the largest city in the district, one of the few Russian regional cities that surpass the administrative center of its subject of the federation (Salekhard) both in population and industrial potential. The city is located on the banks of the Evo-Yaha River, a tributary of the Pura. The Tamchara-Yakha and Sede-Yakha rivers flow through the city and divide it into two parts - Northern and Southern.

Population 119.6 thousand people (2010). As the production center of the largest gas-producing region, Novy Urengoy is the unofficial “gas production capital” of Russia.

Story

In 1949, by order of Stalin, construction of the Salekhard-Igarka transpolar railway began in the subpolar tundra. The road was built by tens of thousands of people, most of whom were Gulag prisoners. The builders planned to stay at the former Urengoy trading post for a long time. However, after Stalin’s death, the work was curtailed, and by the early 60s, no one needed the road and was called “dead.”

For a long time, the 501st and 503rd construction projects were not mentioned anywhere, but the work of the builders was not in vain, it helped seismic surveyors and drillers discover the Urengoy fields, and helped develop them at a faster pace. In January 1966, the seismic station of V. Tsybenko, which was the discoverer of the Urengoy structure, occupied the barracks of the abandoned prisoner camp of the 503rd construction site.

On June 6, 1966, the team of master V. Polupanov drilled the first exploration well in Urengoy, and a new unique natural gas field appeared on the geological map of the country - Urengoyskoye.

On September 22, 1973, a symbolic peg with the sign “Novy Urengoy” was driven into place at the site of the future city, and on December 23, a convoy arrived to build the city. On June 19, 1975, the drilling of the first production well was completed.

The village developed rapidly, gas production volumes grew, and on September 4, 1980, Novy Urengoy was given the status of a city of district significance. In 1983, the construction of the Urengoy - Pomary - Uzhgorod gas pipeline was completed, and since 1984, gas from Urengoy began to flow to Western Europe.

On November 5, 1984, the working village of Korotchaevo was transferred to the administrative subordination of the city council, and on May 10, 1988, the working village of Limbayakha was transferred.

The municipal formation of the city of Novy Urengoy was formed in accordance with the Law of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug dated January 5, 1996 No. 34 “On the municipalities of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug”.

According to the law of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug No. 107-ZAO dated December 16, 2004, the villages of Korotchaevo and Limbayakha ceased to exist as administrative-territorial units and became part of the city of Novy Urengoy, as a result of which the city turned out to be one of the longest in the world - more than 80 km.

Climate

Average annual air temperature - −5.7 °C
Relative air humidity - 78.0%
Average wind speed - 3.4 m/s

Timezone

New Urengoy, like the entire Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, is located in a time zone designated by the international standard as Yekaterinburg Time Zone (YEKT/YEKTST). The offset from UTC is +5:00 (YEKT, winter time) / +6:00 (YEKTST, summer time) due to daylight saving time in this time zone. Relative to Moscow time, the time zone has a constant offset of +2 hours and is designated in Russia accordingly as MSK+2. Yekaterinburg time differs from standard time by one hour, since maternity time is in effect in Russia.

Population

Population of New Urengoy in different years

Industry

There are 4 city-forming enterprises in the city - Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy LLC, Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg LLC, Gazprom Podzemremont Urengoy LLC and the Urengoy Burenie branch of Gazprom Burenie LLC, as well as other enterprises Sibneftegaz, Northgas ", "Gazprom Transgaz Yugorsk" and others - which are part of OJSC Gazprom, they account for 74% of all gas produced in Russia. JSC Urengoy River Port, which accounts for almost 80% of river transportation, has dozens of river tractors and ferries.

Transport

Novy Urengoy Airport

Education

branch of Tyumen State University
Yamal Oil and Gas Institute
branch of the Tobolsk State Social-Pedagogical Academy named after. D. I. Mendeleev
branch of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics
Novy Urengoy Technical School of Gas Industry

Celebrities from Novy Urengoy

Bushuev, Andrey Nikolaevich (1950-2003) - Honored Builder of the Russian Federation.
Masskva, Lera (b. 1988, Novy Urengoy) - Russian singer. Winner of the MTV Russia 2005 award as “Discovery of the Year”. Lived and studied in Novy Urengoy.
Elena Terleeva - singer. She was born in Surgut, but spent her entire childhood in Novy Urengoy.
Sabadash Roman Vladimirovich - opera singer. Laureate of all-Russian and international competitions.

In Novy Urengoy the railway branch to Salekhard begins, the section to Nadym is operational, then closed and inactive. In this regard, it is possible to reach Novy Urengoy by rail only through Tyumen. Once upon a time, perhaps, the planned bridge across the Ob between Salekhard and Labytnangi was not built.