Surgut

city Surgut Сургут flag coat of arms Federal district Ural region Autonomous circle of the Khanty and Mansi / Ugra Urban district Surgut mayor Vadim Shuvalov Founded 1594 City since 1965 surface 210  km² population 306,675 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 1460 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 40  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 3462 Post Code 628400-628426 License Plate 86, 186 OKATO 71 136 Website http://www.admsurgut.ru/ Geographical location Coordinates 61 ° 15 ′  N , 73 ° 26 ′  E Coordinates: 61 ° 15 ′ 0 ″  N , 73 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra

List of cities in Russia

Surgut ( Russian Сургу́т ) is a major Russian city ​​on the Ob River in the West Siberian lowlands . It belongs to the autonomous district of the Khanty and Mansi / Ugra and has 306,675 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

history

Map of Surgut and surroundings (1701)

Surgut was founded in 1594, making it one of the oldest cities in Siberia . The place name comes from the Chantic language and means something like "area rich in fish". In the 17th and 18th centuries, Surgut was one of the larger towns in the Asian part of Russia and an important settlement for Russian colonists in Siberia. By the end of the 18th century, however, it lost its former importance and the city status it gained in 1708. In 1930 Surgut became part of the then newly formed Khanty and Mansi autonomous community as a settlement.

After large deposits of crude oil and natural gas had been discovered near the village in the 1950s and 1960s , rapid development set in again: In 1965 Surgut regained city status, and by 1970 its population doubled to over 30,000 inhabitants, at the end of the In the 1970s, the city mark of 100,000 inhabitants was exceeded.

population

The Lenin Prospectus in October 2009

In the city, the Russians make up the majority of the population. According to the 2010 census, 64.5% of city residents are ethnically Russian. Another 6 percent are Ukrainians , 5.2% are Tatars , 1.7% Bashkirs , 1.4% Azerbaijanis and 1 percent are Chuvashes . 1,252 Germans also live in Surgut , which corresponds to 0.42% of the total population.

The demographic development in Surgut was positive from 2002 to 2012. The birth rate has increased by almost 70 percent since then, while the death rate has decreased noticeably. For years, Surgut has been characterized by stable population growth. Between December 2011 and February 2012 the population increased by 6,100, which is unusually high by Russian standards.

Average life expectancy in 2012 was around 69 years. Men live on average 67 and women 75 years old.

There are more men than women in the city (51 to 49 percent).

The unemployment rate is only 0.25 percent because of the well-developed raw materials industry.

Population development

year	Residents
1897	1,120
1939	2,280
1959	6,031
1970	34,011
1979	107,343
1989	247,823
2002	285.027
2010	306.675

Note: census data

Religions

In Surgut there are more than ten Russian Orthodox churches, prayer houses for Gospel Christians and Jehovah's Witnesses , a Roman Catholic church and a Sunni Muslim mosque .

politics

Result of the parliamentary elections in Russia 2011 in Surgut:

• United Russia : 37.84%
• Liberal Democratic Party of Russia : 22.14%
• Communist Party of the Russian Federation : 18.08%
• Fair Russia : 15.53%
• Yabloko : 4.11%
• Patriots of Russia : 1.44%
• Right thing : 0.86%

The turnout was around 61 percent.

Economy and Infrastructure

Surgutskaya GRES-2 power plant

Surgut in winter

Surgut is considered to be one of the most important centers of the oil production industry in all of Russia. The city also forms a hub in the West Siberian pipeline network. This is where the oil and gas pipelines from Nizhnevartovsk and Novy Urengoy and those to Novosibirsk , Perm and Chelyabinsk meet.

The most important companies based in the city are Surgutneftegas and Surgutgasprom , the latter belonging to the state-owned Gazprom group . The city also has two of the largest thermal power plants in the world, GRES-1 and GRES-2. These belong to OGK-4 , 78.3 percent of which are owned by E.ON Russia Power .

Surgut has its own university and has an airport , railway connection and an inland port on the Ob. A few kilometers below the city, a railway bridge built in the 1970s and the Surgut road bridge opened in 2000 span the Ob. These are the two crossings of the river furthest downstream, to the mouth of which it is a good 1200 kilometers from there.

telecommunications

Since 1993 there has been nationwide internet reception in Surgut . There are currently ten different Internet service providers in the city , including Rostelekom and Mobile TeleSystems .

Town twinning

Surgut lists the following sixteen parish partnerships:

city	country	Type
Almetyevsk	Volga, Russia	Twin town
Chaoyang	Liaoning, People's Republic of China	Twin city
Homel	Belarus	Twin town, since 2005
Kalinin Rajon	Saint Petersburg, Russia	Twin town
Katerini	Central Macedonia, Greece	Twin city
Novosibirsk	Siberia, Russia	Twin town
Omsk	Siberia, Russia	Twin town, since 2017
Petrozavodsk	Karelia, Russia	Twin town
Porvoo	Uusimaa, Finland	Twin town
Pskov	Russia	Twin town
Salawat	Volga, Russia	Twin town
Sibai	Volga, Russia	Twin town
Sochi	Krasnodar, Russia	Twin town
Suzdal	Vladimir, Russia	Twin town
Tobolsk	Urals, Russia	Twin town
Zalaegerszeg	Western Transdanubia, Hungary	Twin city

Sports

The volleyball men from ZSK Gazprom-Ugra Surgut play in the Russian Super League.

sons and daughters of the town

• Yevgeny Chwostov (born 1981), ice hockey player
• Ilya Maljuschkin (* 1984), ice hockey player
• Anton Poleschchuk (* 1987), ice hockey player
• Ilya Proskuryakov (* 1987), ice hockey goalkeeper
• Igor Bobkov (* 1991), ice hockey player
• Jaroslaw Dyblenko (* 1993), ice hockey player
• Isolda Dychauk (* 1993), German actress of Russian origin
• Alexander Petrow (* 1993), ice hockey player
• Pawel Iwaschko (* 1994), short distance runner
• Saurbek Sidakow (* 1996), wrestler

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)
2. ↑ http://khmstat.gks.ru/wps/wcm/connect/rosstat_ts/khmstat/resources/a29180004f66ac249bbabf9b972d8349/4.pub-04-04_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%3D71800+ -3.pdf
3. ↑ http://surgut-today.ru/news/437/7679/  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ http://eng.ogk-4.ru/?obj=share1
5. ↑ Партнеры Сургута ǀ Официальный портал Администрации города Сургута. Retrieved March 28, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Петров Александр Андреевич , r-hockey.ru (Russian)
7. ↑ Alexander Petrov , eliteprospects.com

Web links

Commons : Surgut  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wiktionary: Surgut  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• City Council website (Russian)
• Surgut on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Surgut State University (Russian)