Novoagansk

Urban-type settlement Nowoagansk Новоаганск Federal district Ural region Autonomous circle of the Khanty and Mansi / Ugra Rajon Nizhnevartovsk head Pavel Derevyanko Founded 1966 Urban-type settlement since 1978 population 10,343 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 65  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34668 Post Code 628647 License Plate 86, 186 OKATO 71 119 656 Geographical location Coordinates 61 ° 57 ′  N , 76 ° 39 ′  E Coordinates: 61 ° 56 ′ 30 ″  N , 76 ° 39 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra

List of large settlements in Russia

Novoagansk ( Russian: Новоага́нск ) is an urban-type settlement in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra ( Russia ) with 10,343 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The settlement is located in the central part of the West Siberian lowlands , about km as the crow flies northeast of the district administrative center Khanty-Mansiysk on the right bank of the Agan, which flows into the Ob tributary Tromjogan .

Novoagansk belongs to the Nizhnevartovsk Raion and is a good 110 km as the crow flies north of the administrative center of Nizhnevartovsk . The settlement is also the approximately 7 km upstream (northeast) lying "national" village Warjogan ( Варьёган ), of whose 660 inhabitants 528 are members of the indigenous peoples of Siberia ( Chanten and Waldnenzen ).

history

The upstream village of Varyogan was established in the 1930s (officially 1936), when forced resettlers from the European part of the country came to the area as part of the Stalinist repression .

During the exploration and development of the West Siberian oil and gas deposits , a base of the Agan geological oil exploration expedition was built in 1966 in place of today's Novoagansk , around which a housing estate soon grew. In 1978 it was given the status of an urban-type settlement , the name of which is derived from that of the river and the Russian novo- for new- .

Population development

year	Residents
1979	6,340
1989	10,050
2002	9,717
2010	10,343

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

Novoagansk is one of the centers of oil exploration and production in the Rajon.

Road connection exists upstream to Raduzhny and from there in a southerly direction to Nizhnevartovsk.

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

• Novoagansk on the Rajon Administration website (Russian)