Pyt-Jach
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Pyt-Jach
Пыть-Ях
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List of cities in Russia |
Pyt-Jach ( Russian Пыть-Ях ) is a city in western Siberia . It is located in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra ( Russia ) and has 41,488 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).
geography
The city is located in the West Siberian lowlands south of the Ob on its left tributary, the Bolshoi Balyk . The climate is continental.
The town forms a separate urban district , the territory of the Rajons Nefteyugansk is enclosed.
Pyt-Jach has a train station on the Tyumen - Surgut railway line, which opened in 1978 . The highway R404 Tyumen - Khanty-Mansiysk or - Surgut - Novy Urengoy runs through the city .
history
In 1968, a drilling company was founded in the Mamontowo settlement to develop the oil field of the same name ( Мамонтовское месторождение ) discovered in 1965 . In the 1970s, the Pyt-Jach settlement was built in the area of the train station on the newly built Tyumen - Surgut line, about 5 km away. Around 1980 the expansion of both places into housing estates for oil workers began on a larger scale: In 1979 Mamontowo received the status of an urban-type settlement , in March 1982 also Pyt-Jach, after the settlement Yuzhny Balyk ( Южный Балык ) was attached to the south . After the incorporation of Mamontowo into Pyt-Jach in 1989, it received city rights on August 8, 1990.
The name means something like place of good people in the Chantic language .
Population development
year | Residents | comment |
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1989 | 17.101 | Mamontowo 13,862 |
2002 | 41,813 | |
2010 | 41,488 |
Note: census data
Culture, education and sights
A branch of the Tyumen State University is located in Pyt-Jach.
Since 2001 there has been a historical-ethnographic open-air museum ( Историко-этнографический музей-парк под открытым небом ).
economy
Pyt-Jach is a center of oil and gas production and processing. The most important companies based here are the Rosneft- owned Juganskneftegas (Юганскнефтегаз) and the Yuzhno-Balyker Gas Processing Combine ( Южно-Балыкский газоперерабатывающий комбинатинатий ).
There are also companies in the wood processing industry ( Balykles , Балыклес ).
See also
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
- City administration website (Russian)
- Pyt-Jach on mojgorod.ru (Russian)