Purpe (place)

Federal district	Ural
region	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Rajon	Purowski
head	Alexander Botkachik
Founded	1978
Settlement since	1978
surface	17.37 km²
population	9840 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	566 inhabitants / km²
Time zone	UTC + 5
Telephone code	(+7) 34934
Post Code	629840
License Plate	89
OKATO	71 160 909 001
Website	purpe.info
Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 29 ' N , 76 ° 42' E Coordinates: 64 ° 28 '50 " N , 76 ° 41' 30" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Purpe ( Russian Пурпе ) is a settlement in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug ( Russia ) with 9840 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

Purpe is located in the West Siberian lowlands , about 520 kilometers as the crow flies east-southeast of the district capital Salekhard . The city is not far from the left bank of the Pjakupur River .

Purpe belongs to the Purowski Rajon , whose administrative center Tarko-Sale is located about 70 kilometers to the northeast. The closest place is the town of Gubkinski about ten kilometers southwest. The eponymous river Purpe flows about 20 kilometers north of the settlement in an easterly direction and flows into Pjakupur about halfway between Purpe and Tarko-Sale.

history

The place was created in early 1978 as a workers' settlement during the construction of the Surgut - Novy Urengoy railway line and, after its opening (regular operation on this section in 1984), developed as a settlement at the railway station for the nearby town of Gubkinski.

Population development

year	Residents
2002	9,074
2010	9,840

Note: census data

Economy and Infrastructure

There are utility, transport and construction companies in Purpe, mostly serving the oil and gas industries in the area. One of the main pipelines in the region, operated by Transneft , runs past the village , to which the 550 km long pipeline from the newly developed Wankor oil field has been connected at Purpe since 2009 .

The railway line from Tyumen on the Trans-Siberian Railway via Surgut to Novy Urengoy (route km 385 from Ult-Jagun near Surgut; corresponding to 1139 from Tyumen) and the R404 trunk road run through Purpe . The railway line crosses the Pjakupur above Purpe.

Individual evidence

↑ ^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

Official website of the local government (Russian)

[einwohner_aktuell-1] 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)