Nyagan

city Nyagan Нягань coat of arms Federal district Ural region Autonomous circle of the Khanty and Mansi / Ugra Urban district Nyagan mayor Alexander Ryschenkov Founded 1965 City since 1985 surface 814  km² population 54,890 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 67 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 40  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34672 Post Code 628180-628195 License Plate 86, 186 OKATO 71 139 Website www.admin.nyagan.ru Geographical location Coordinates 62 ° 8 '  N , 65 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 8 '0 "  N , 65 ° 23' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra

List of cities in Russia

Nyagan ( Russian Ня́гань ) is a city with 54,890 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra within the Tyumen Oblast in western Siberia , Russia . It is located around 230 km as the crow flies north of the district capital Khanty-Mansiysk and 565 km north of the regional capital Tyumen .

history

Today's city emerged from a workers' settlement founded in 1965 by a wood processing company. The name of the place came from the name of the nearby river Nyagan-Jugan, which means "great river" in the language of the Khanty and the Mansi . In 1967 a railway line was laid to the settlement to enable timber to be transported from here to other Russian regions.

In the late 1970s, oil production began near Nyagan . For this reason, the settlement's population grew to over 50,000 in the 1980s. On August 15, 1985, Nyagan was given city status.

Population development

year	Residents
1979	4,622
1989	54,061
2002	52,610
2010	54,890

Note: census data

Economy and Transport

As of 2006, oil production in Nyagan is around six million tons per year and is operated by TNK-Nyagan , a subsidiary of the Russian-British group TNK-BP . There is also an oil refinery and a municipal wood processing plant in Nyagan. Nyagan is connected to other regions of Russia by a highway to Khanty-Mansiysk, a railway line and a small airport.

Picture gallery

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  Residential building (2008)

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  Residential building (2008)

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  Residential building (2008)

sons and daughters of the town

• Marija Sharapova (* 1987), tennis player

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 : Njagan  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City portrait on the Autonomous Okrug website (Russian)
• Entry about Nyagan on mojgorod.ru (Russian)