Kogalym

city Kogalym Когалым flag coat of arms Federal district Ural region Autonomous circle of the Khanty and Mansi / Ugra Urban district Kogalym mayor Sergei Kakotkin Founded 1975 City since 1985 surface 153.5  km² population 58,181 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 379 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 70  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34667 Post Code 628481-628486 License Plate 86, 186 OKATO 71 183 Website www.admhmao.ru/common/ckogal Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 16 ′  N , 74 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 62 ° 16 ′ 0 ″  N , 74 ° 29 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra

List of cities in Russia

Kogalym ( Russian Когалым ) is a city in West Siberia , in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra ( Russia ) with 58,181 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located north of the Ob and about 125 km northeast of the city of Surgut in the West Siberian lowlands in the area of ​​the confluence of the Kirill-Vysyagun (Кирилл-Высъягун) in the Ingujagun (Ингуягун). The climate is continental.

Kogalym is located on the territory of the Surgut Rajon , but is directly subordinate to the Autonomous Okrug.

The city is located on the Surgut - Korotschajewo - Novy Urengoy railway line and has an airport.

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  Russian Orthodox Church

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  City administration building

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  Druzby Narodow Street

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  railway station

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  The Ingujagun not far from Kogalym

history

Established in 1975 as a settlement for geologists and oil workers as well as in connection with the construction of the railway line to Novy Urengoy , the place received city rights on August 15, 1985. The place name is derived from the chantic words koch or kog (кох, ког; long ) and alyng (алынг; beginning , beginning ), and denotes the elongated origin of a river.

Population development

year	Residents
1989	44,297
2002	55,367
2010	58.181

Note: census data

economy

Kogalym is a center of the petroleum industry . The production in the surrounding oil fields began in 1978. The headquarters of Kogalymneftegaz (Когалымнефтегаз), one of the three founding companies of the largest Russian oil company Lukoil, is located in the city .

The airline Kogalymavia is based in Kogalym.

Airport

The small town has an international airport, the Kogalym International Airport (Международный аэропорт Когалым) (IATA: KGP, ICAO: USRK). It is located approx. 9 km southeast of Kogalym and is currently served by UTair Aviation (Kogalym-Moscow- Vnukovo ) and Yamal Airlines (Kogalym- Yekaterinburg ).

Education, culture and sights

In the city there are 10 general education schools, branches of Tyumen State University (Тюменский государственный университет), the Tyumen State Oil and Gas University (Тюменский государственный нефтегазовый университет) and the Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radio Electronics (Томский государственный университет систем управления и радиоэлектроники ). In 1996 the KogalymNIPIneft (КогалымНИПИнефть), a scientific research and project institute of the petroleum industry, was founded.

The city has a museum of local history and art, a newly built Orthodox church and a mosque, as well as an ice palace .

See also

• List of cities in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra

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)

Web links

Commons : Kogalym  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kogalym on the website of the Governor of the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra (Russian)
• City web portal (Russian)
• Kogalym on mojgorod.ru (Russian)