Novy Urengoy

city Novy Urengoy Novy Urengoy flag coat of arms Federal district Ural region Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Urban district Novy Urengoy mayor Ivan Kostogris Founded 1973 City since 1980 surface 222  km² population 104,107 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 469 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 40  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 3494 Post Code 629300-629329 License Plate 89 OKATO 71 176 Website www.newurengoy.ru Geographical location Coordinates 66 ° 5 '  N , 76 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 66 ° 5 '0 "  N , 76 ° 41' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

List of cities in Russia

Novy Urengoy ( Russian Но́вый Уренго́й ) is a large city in Russia with 104,107 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010). It is located in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district in northern Western Siberia on the Pur tributary Jewo-Jacha, about 450 km east of the district capital Salekhard . The nearest town is Tarko-Sale , which is 139 km south of Novy Urengoy.

history

With the first well near today's Novy Urengoy, the development of the Urengoy gas field started in 1966 , which led to the settlement of workers in this previously largely uninhabited area. Near the village of Urengoy ( literally "remote", "sleepy" in the Nenets ; according to other interpretations "tall grass" or "endless hills"), about 80 km east of today's city, a workers' settlement was built in the late 1960s. With the expansion of the tapped gas reserves, a new city was also created in September 1973, which was given the name Novy Urengoy , or “New Urengoy”, to distinguish it from the workers' settlement .

In 1980 Novy Urengoy, which now numbered over 16,000 inhabitants, was granted city status. In 2004, the urban settlements were Korottschajewo (Russian Коротчаево ) and Limbjajacha ( Лимбяяха ) incorporated, both about 70 km to the east on the left bank of the Pur (very close to the "old" Urengoy on the opposite river bank) are, where originally the Arctic Circle railway river should have crossed (but today the railway line bends south towards Surgut ). With these incorporations, Novy Urengoy exceeded the limit of 100,000 inhabitants and became a large city .

Population development

year	Residents
1979	8,580
1989	93,235
2002	94,456
2010	104.107

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

One of the residential areas

As the center of one of Russia's most important natural gas production areas , Novy Urengoy is now unofficially the capital of Russian gas production. The three largest companies based in Novy Urengoy are the gas production companies Urengoigasprom , Jamburggasdobytscha and Tyumenburgas , which belong to the Gazprom group and together supply almost 75% of Russian gas production.

Due to its remote location, Novy Urengoy has no trunk road connections to the rest of Russia. However, there is a railway connection via Surgut and Tobolsk to Tyumen (from there to Moscow ), as well as an airport . In the (old) Urengoy, 80 km further east, there is an important river port on the Pur , the operating company of which is based in Novy Urengoy. The gas produced near Novy Urengoy is transported to European Russia and Europe via the “Urengoy - Pomary [between Kazan and Cheboksary ] - Uzhhorod ” pipeline .

Sports

The volleyball men and women from Fakel Novy Urengoy play in the Russian Super League.

sons and daughters of the town

• Oksana Sekerina (* 20th century), opera and concert singer
• Gulnas Gubaidullina (* 1992), pentathlete

Web links

Commons : Novy Urengoy  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the city (Russian)
• City Portal (Russian)
• Novy Urengoy on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Photos and report: Life in Novy Urengoy in the Siberian winter

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Tom 1. Čislennostʹ i razmeščenie naselenija (Results of the All-Russian Census 2010. Volume 1. Number and distribution of the population). Tables 5 , pp. 12-209; 11 , pp. 312–979 (download from the website of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ↑ Gulnaz Gubaydullina in the database of Sports-Reference (English)