Tarko sale

Federal district	Ural
region	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Rajon	Purowski
head	Anatoly Ostryagin
Founded	1932
City since	2004
surface	44 km²
population	20,398 inhabitants ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Population density	464 inhabitants / km²
Height of the center	22 m
Time zone	UTC + 5
Telephone code	(+7) 34997
Post Code	629850-629851
License Plate	89
OKATO	71 160 605
Geographical location
Coordinates	64 ° 55 ' N , 77 ° 47' E Coordinates: 64 ° 55 '0 " N , 77 ° 47' 0" E
	Situation in Russia
	Location in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
	List of cities in Russia

Tarko-Sale ( Russian / Nenets Тарко-Сале ) is a Russian city in the autonomous district of Yamal-Nenets with 20,398 inhabitants (14 October 2010).

geography

District administration building

Tarko-Sale is located in the West Siberian lowlands , about 550 kilometers east (as the crow flies) of the district capital Salekhard and southeast of Novy Urengoy . The city lies on the Pjakupur river , which joins the Aiwassedapur to Pur four kilometers downstream .

Tarko-Sale is the administrative center of the Rajons Purowski .

history

Tarko Sale is one of the oldest places in the region. The name of the place, founded in 1932, was derived from the Nenets talka salja , which means settlement on a headland (between two rivers) .

In connection with the beginning of the development of the region's oil and natural gas reserves in the 1970s, the settlement grew rapidly and received urban-type settlement status in 1976 . On March 23, 2004 the city charter was awarded.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	423
1959	944
1970	2,703
1979	6.216
1989	17,400
2002	18,517
2010	20,398

Note: census data

Culture and sights

The local museum of the Pur Rajons is located in Tarko-Sale.

Economy and Infrastructure

The city's main industry is natural gas extraction and processing. This is where the second largest RTS -listed natural gas producer in Russia, Novatek, is based after Gazprom .

About ten kilometers west of the city is its Purovsk train station on the Tyumen - Surgut - Nowy Urengoy railway line, which opened on this section in 1985 . The city has so far only been connected to the railway station and the Surgut – Novy Urengoy road, which also runs on the far left bank of the Pjakupur, via a pontoon bridge or, in winter, an ice road.

Tarko-Sale has a small river port on Pjakupur and an airport ( ICAO code USDS ).

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

Commons : Tarko Sale - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Information on Rajon Pur (English)
Tarko sale on mojgorod.ru (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)