Uwat

Village Uwat Уват Federal district Ural Oblast Tyumen Rajon Uwat head Ivan Tubol population 4964 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 35  m Time zone UTC + 5 Telephone code (+7) 34561 Post Code 626170 License Plate 72 OKATO 71 248 850 001 Geographical location Coordinates 59 ° 9 '  N , 68 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 59 ° 8 '30 "  N , 68 ° 53' 0"  E

Situation in Russia

Location in Tyumen Oblast

Uwat ( Russian Ува́т ) is a village in the Tyumen Oblast ( Russia ) with 4964 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010).

geography

The place is located in the West Siberian lowlands , just under 300 kilometers as the crow flies northeast of the Tyumen Oblast Administrative Center and a good 100 kilometers north-northeast of Tobolsk on the left bank of the Irtysh, which is over 500 meters wide . Unpopulated swamp and taiga area extends west of the village .

Uwat is the administrative center of the Uwat Rajon of the same name . The rural community (Selskoje posselenije) Uwat also includes the villages Lebaut and Rodina and the settlement Pervomaisk.

history

The village of Uwat was founded in the first half of the 17th century.

On January 14, 1925, it became the administrative center of the raion of the same name, which was founded in November 1923 as Demjanskoje Rajon with its center in the village of the same name.

Population development

year	Residents
1939	1955
1959	2984
1970	3780
1979	3958
1989	4039
2002	4610
2010	4964

Note: census data

Culture, sights and sports

There is a training center of the Russian Biathlon Association in Uwat, which is why the national championships have been held there in recent years. In 2008 the center was named after the former biathlete, multiple world and Olympic champion and today's biathlon official Alexander Tikhonov . In the same year the Grand Hotel Uwat was opened. There is also a parachuting club .

There is a local museum “Legends of the Gray Irtysh” and, as its branch, an exhibition on Alexander Tichonow, which can be seen in the Grand Hotel .

Economy and Infrastructure

The residents of the place are mainly employed in forestry and oil production , which is operated by TNK-BP in the Rajon .

A few kilometers east of the village, on the other bank of the Irtysh, the R404 highway runs past, which connects Tyumen via Tobolsk with the natural gas and oil production areas of Western Siberia. A bridge over the river is missing; the traffic is handled by ferry in summer and via an ice road in winter . On the left bank of the Irtysh there are some local roads to the surrounding villages of the Rajon. The nearest railway station Junost-Komsomolskaya is in the village of Tutas, a good 25 kilometers south-east, on the railway line Tyumen - Surgut  - Nizhnevartovsk / Novy Urengoy (route km 313).

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. ↑ Website of the Grand Hotel Uwat (English, Russian)

Web links

• Rajon Administration website (Russian)