Pyt-Jach

city Pyt-Jach Пыть-Ях flag coat of arms Federal district Ural region Autonomous circle of the Khanty and Mansi / Ugra Urban district Pyt-Jach mayor Valery Wesnin Founded 1968 City since 1990 surface 64  km² population 41,488 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 648 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 60  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34673 Post Code 628380-628387 License Plate 86, 186 OKATO 71 185 Website www.pyadm.ru Geographical location Coordinates 60 ° 45 ′  N , 72 ° 47 ′  E Coordinates: 60 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  N , 72 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra

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
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

• 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 : Pyt-Jach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• City administration website (Russian)
• Pyt-Jach on mojgorod.ru (Russian)