Urai

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city Urai Uray flag coat of arms Federal district Ural region Autonomous circle of the Khanty and Mansi / Ugra Urban district Urai mayor Pavel Kukushkin Founded 1922 Earlier names Kolossja (1922-1965) City since 1965 surface 543  km² population 39,457 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 73 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 55  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34676 Post Code 628280-628285 License Plate 86, 186 OKATO 71 138 Website www.uray.ru Geographical location Coordinates 60 ° 8 ′  N , 64 ° 47 ′  E Coordinates: 60 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  N , 64 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  E

Situation in Russia

Location in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra

List of cities in Russia

Urai ( Russian Ура́й ) is a city in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra in Western Siberia ( Russia ). It has 39,457 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The city is located in the middle of the forests and swamps of the Konda lowlands , part of the West Siberian lowlands , about 350 kilometers southwest of the administrative center of Khanty-Mansiysk . Urai is located on the right bank of the Konda River .

The city of Urai is administratively directly subordinate to the region. Several smaller settlements, mainly in a north-westerly direction, such as Nasarowo, Chantyrja and Shaim, belong to the urban area.

history

In 1922, resettlers from central Russia founded the Kolossja settlement near today's city .

At the end of the 1950s, a base for oil exploration was established here , and in 1960, about 40 kilometers to the north-west, near the village of Shaim , the first oil deposit in Western Siberia, Shaimskoye, was discovered. As a result, the place grew rapidly and in 1965 received city rights under the name Urai ( Mansi for oxbow river , arched lake ).

Population development

year	Residents
1959	900
1970	17,385
1979	21,519
1989	37.198
2002	38,872
2010	39,457

Note: census data (1959 rounded)

Culture, education and sights

Urai has a city history museum.

In the city there are branches of the Tyumen State University (since 1995) and the Tyumen State Oil and Gas University .

Economy and Infrastructure

The city is an important base for oil production in the western part of the West Siberian lowlands. It is one of the three original locations of the oil company Lukoil (the U in the company name stands for Urai ). An oil pipeline to Tyumen begins here .

There are also companies in the construction and food industries.

Urai has an airport and is a local traffic center with its bus station. The nearest railway station is 160 kilometers down the Konda at the Mezhduretschenski settlement ( Ustye-Acha station ), where a line from Yekaterinburg that was built in the 1960s ends.

sons and daughters of the town

• Wiktorija Schilinskaite (* 1989), Russian handball player

Web links

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

• City administration website (Russian)
• Urai on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

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)