Yugorsk

Yugorsk (English)
Югорск (Russian)
-  Town[1]  -

Location of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in Russia
Yugorsk
Location of Yugorsk in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Coordinates: 61°19′N 63°20′E / 61.317°N 63.333°E / 61.317; 63.333Coordinates: 61°19′N 63°20′E / 61.317°N 63.333°E / 61.317; 63.333
Administrative status (as of December 2009)
Country Russia
Federal subject Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug[1]
Administratively subordinated to town of okrug significance of Yugorsk[1]
Administrative center of town of okrug significance of Yugorsk[1]
Municipal status (as of December 2009)
Urban okrug Yugorsk Urban Okrug[2]
Administrative center of Yugorsk Urban Okrug[2]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census) 34,067 inhabitants[3]
Time zone YEKT (UTC+05:00)[4]
Founded 1962
Previous names Komsomolsky
Postal code(s)[5] 628260
Dialing code(s) +7 34675
Official website
Yugorsk on Wikimedia Commons

Yugorsk (Russian: Югорск) is a town in Khanty–Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located in the northwestern part of the East-West lowland, 420 kilometers (260 mi) from Khanty-Mansiysk. Population: 34,067 (2010 Census);[3] 30,285 (2002 Census);[6] 24,928 (1989 Census).[7]

Geography

The relief in the town is flat. The town is surrounded by forests. The Ess River flows 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) from the town.

History

Historical coat of arms of Yugorsk

The settlement of Komsomolsky was built in 1962 to support timber and natural gas industries. The settlement grew as the gas fields of Western Siberia were being explored, and the production association Tyumentransgas (since 2007 GazpromTransgazYugorsk) developed. In March 1959, subdivisions of railway troops started the construction of the "Ivdel-Ob" railway. Around the same time, the taiga was being explored, the first timber farms were created, and residential housing development continued. It took over thirty years to construct a compact and comfortable town.

The town was renamed Yugorsk in July 1992. The name originates from the name of the land "Yugra", or "Yugoria"—the place where the Khanty and Mansi peoples live.

On the 39th anniversary, the largest Saint Sergy Radonezhsky's Cathedral was open after the blessing of Patriarch Alexius II, the Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus'.

St. Sergius of Radonezh church in Yugorsk

Construction is currently a priority of the town authorities. A children's hospital, a secondary school #6 for six hundred students, a sports and culture complex, a medical-diagnostic complex, an entertainment center, ten apartment houses, and a row of other objects are being built simultaneously.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as the town of okrug significance of Yugorsk—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, the town of okrug significance of Yugorsk is incorporated as Yugorsk Urban Okrug.[2]

Economy

GazpromTransgazYugorsk (owned by Gazprom) is the major employer in the town, providing jobs to over 7,000 people in Yugorsk.

At present 90% of revenues of the town budget come from GazpromTransgazYugorsk enterprise. The combined power of Tyumentransgas gas pumping station is the largest in the world.

Education

Facilities of higher education include the branch of St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University and Zhirnovsky Oil and Gas Technical School

Despite of remoteness from the metropolitan centers, people do not feel as deprived of the cultural values. Young people of Yugorsk study at Children's Art School, Art College, are engaged in groups and sections of the municipal authorities of culture and the center "Nord". Institutions subsidiary education - clubs Prometey and Amarant, sports institutions provide useful leisure for children.

Culture and mass media

The Creation and Leisure Center unites 19 creative groups: dancing, singing and instrumental. They include the Children's Arts School uniting seven pre-school and school groups and five club associations for various categories of children. The Centre's creative groups and performers participated in many national and international festivals and contests. They were welcomed in Yugorsk and Moscow, in France and Egypt. The people living in settlements along gas lines are particularly familiar with these performers. The Center is a head organization for cultural centres, cultural and sports centers and clubs being part of the Tyumentransgas 's system.

The local museum shows expositions about life of the indigenous population - the Khanty and Mansi, with almost forty year biography of Yugorsk, with the history of gas deposits' development telling about nowadays.

There are its own cultural traditions in the town. One of them is a district festival "Polar lights" where all-aged talents from the towns of the district and route settlements take part . Celebration of the Town's Day and Oil&Gasmen's Day has become a good tradition for the townspeople. On the first Saturday of September inhabitants of Yugorsk leave their houses to enjoy the carnival procession, to take part in the national holiday with songs and dances.

The newspapers "Yugorsky Vestnik" and "Nord are published in the town. In 1993 the television channel "Nord" of the Tyumentransgas enterprise was formed.

Sports

Different competitions are held at the Sport-Healthy complexes "Yubileiny" and "Smena", swimming-pools and stadiums are at the service of active leisure amateurs. There are champions who have got high titles at the International and European competitions in the town.

Denis Pimankov won a silver medal at the Olympic games in swimming and is a multiple prize-winner of world championships and a European record holder in relay swimming. Sergey Kryanin is a member of the Russian national skiing team. He participated in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano and 1999 world championship in Austria, and is a four-time Russian champion in super-marathon (70 km ski race). Olga Melnik won silver medals of the world championship in Germany and the Olympics in Nagano. In 1993, an indoor football team "Tyumentransgaz-YAVA" was formed and became a finalist of the Russian Indoor Football Association's Cup the same year. In 1995 "Tyumentransgaz-YAVA" was the third in the Cup of Russia and entered the Russian Highest League. In the Russian championships of 1995-1996 and 1996-1997 the team was a third-prize winner. In 1996 "Tyumentransgaz-YAVA" was the second and in 1997 - the third in the Russian Cup finals. Gazprom-Ugra Yugorsk won the 2014-15 Russian Futsal Super League.

References

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Law #43-oz
  2. 1 2 3 Law #63-oz
  3. 1 2 Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  4. ↑ Правительство Российской Федерации. Федеральный закон №107-ФЗ от 3 июня 2011 г. «Об исчислении времени», в ред. Федерального закона №248-ФЗ от 05 апреля 2016 г. «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "Об исчислении времени"». Вступил в силу по истечении шестидесяти дней после дня официального опубликования (6 августа 2011 г.). Опубликован: "Российская газета", №120, 6 июня 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Federal Law #107-FZ of June 31, 2011 On Calculating Time, as amended by the Federal Law #248-FZ of April 05, 2016 On Amending Federal Law "On Calculating Time". Effective as of after sixty days following the day of the official publication.).
  5. ↑ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (Russian)
  6. ↑ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian). Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  7. ↑ Demoscope Weekly (1989). "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров" [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. Retrieved August 9, 2014.

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