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New Urengoy
Counterclockwise, starting from the top: Central Square, Leningradsky Avenue, Lake Molodezhnoe, Gubkin Avenue, Epiphany Cathedral
66°05′05″ n. w. 76°40′44″ E. d.
A country
Subject of the federation	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Urban district	city ​​of Novy Urengoy
Mayor	Ivan Ivanovich Kostogriz
History and geography
Based	in 1975
City with	1980
Square	111 km²
Center height	40 m
Timezone	UTC+5
Population
Population	↗ 116,938 people (2019)
Katoykonim	(new) Urengoytsy, (new) Urengoyets, (new) Urengoyka
Digital IDs
Telephone code	+7 3494
Postcode	629300–629329
OKATO code	71176
OKTMO code	71956000001
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New Urengoy- a city in, in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the first largest city in the district, one of the few regional cities that surpass administrative center its subject of the federation () both in terms of population and industrial development. The city arose during the development of Tyumen oil and is located on the banks of the Evoyakha River, a tributary of the Pura. The Tamcharuyakha and Sedeyakha rivers flow through the city and divide it into two parts - Northern and Southern. The territory of the urban district is surrounded on all sides by the Purovsky district.

Population - 116,938 people (as of 2019). As the production center of the largest gas-producing region, Novy Urengoy is the unofficial gas "capital" of Russia (less commonly referred to as the "gas production capital").

Etymology

Novy Urengoy arose as a city of gas workers near the Urengoy gas field, named after the village located 75 kilometers east of Novy Urengoy.

Status and local government

The city, as an administrative-territorial unit of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, has the status of a city of district significance. Within the framework of local self-government, it forms a municipal entity of the same name with the status of an urban district as the only populated area within it.

The local government bodies of New Urengoy are:

• City Duma of the municipal formation of the city of Novy Urengoy - City Duma - elected representative body of the municipal formation;
• The head of the municipal formation - the Head of the city of Novy Urengoy (Head of the city) - the elected highest official of the municipal formation;
• The administration of the city of Novy Urengoy is an executive and administrative body;
• The Chamber of Control and Accounts of New Urengoy is the control and accounting body of the municipality.

The head of the city (head of the municipality) is Ivan Ivanovich Kostogriz, the chairman of the City Duma is Igor Moiseevich Podovzhny.

Chapters

Main article: Heads of New Urengoy

Story

In 1949, by order of Stalin, construction of a transpolar tunnel began in the subpolar tundra. railway- Igarka. The road was built by tens of thousands of people, most of whom were Gulag prisoners. The builders planned to stay at the former Urengoy trading post for a long time. However, after Stalin’s death, the work was curtailed, and by the early 1960s, no one needed the road and was called “dead.” An image of this branch was presented on the schematic map railway tracks, located on one of the walls of the city's railway station.

The 501st and 503rd construction projects were not mentioned anywhere for a long time, but the work of the builders was not in vain - it helped seismic surveyors and drillers discover the Urengoy fields and develop them at a faster pace.

In January 1966, the seismic station of V. Tsybenko, which was the discoverer of the Urengoy structure, occupied the barracks of the abandoned prison camp of the 503rd construction site.

On June 6, 1966, the team of master V. Polupanov drilled the first exploration well, and geological map the country has a new unique natural gas field - Urengoyskoye.

On September 22, 1973, on the site of the future city, a symbolic peg with a sign “Yagelnoye” was driven in - that was the name of the village at first, and on December 23, a convoy arrived for the construction of the city. On June 19, 1975, the drilling of the first production well was completed.

The first airport of New Urengoy "Yagelnoye"

On August 18, 1975, the state registration of the village of Novy Urengoy took place. On September 25, 1975, construction of the airport began, and the first technical flight took place in October.

In 1976, the first children were born in Novy Urengoy - Sveta Popkova and Andrei Bazilev. On September 1, 1976, the first school opened and 72 students sat down at their desks.

In January 1978, the Urengoygazdobycha production association was formed. On April 22, 1978, the first integrated gas treatment plant in Urengoy was commissioned, and commercial operation of the Urengoy field began. On May 30, the first billion cubic meters of Urengoy gas were produced. On April 30, 1978, fighters of the All-Union Komsomol Shock Detachment named after the XVIII Congress of the Komsomol arrived in Novy Urengoy.

The village developed rapidly, gas production volumes grew, and on June 16, 1980, it was given the status of a city with the name Novy Urengoy, of district significance. The year of foundation of the city is considered to be 1975. City Day, like most other cities, is celebrated on the first weekend of September.

In September 1982, the city received rail links to the rest of the country.

In 1983, the construction of the Urengoy - Pomary - Uzhgorod gas pipeline was completed, and since 1984, gas from Urengoy began flowing to.

On November 5, 1984, the working village of Korotchaevo was transferred to the administrative subordination of the city council, and on May 10, 1988, the working village of Limbayakha.

The municipal formation of the city of Novy Urengoy was formed in accordance with the Law of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of January 5, 1996 No. 34 “On the municipalities of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug”.

On September 6, 1998, an Agreement was signed between the sister cities of Novy Urengoy and San Donato Milanese (Italy).

Northern districts of New Urengoy

According to the law of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug No. 107-ZAO dated December 16, 2004, the villages of Korotchaevo and Limbayakha ceased to exist as administrative-territorial units and became part of the city of Novy Urengoy, as a result of which the city turned out to be one of the longest in the world - more than 80 km.

In December 2004, the Pestsovoye field was put into commercial production.

On September 3-4, 2005, Novy Urengoy celebrated its 30th anniversary. During the anniversary celebrations, the eternal flame was lit on Memory Square and the first fountain in the city was opened.

On November 4, 2006, the official opening of Memory Square took place in the Studenchesky microdistrict.

On March 24, 2007, a Cooperation Agreement was signed between the municipalities of the city of Novy Urengoy and the resort city.

Climate

Central square in winter

Despite the fact that Novy Urengoy is located in the region of a temperate sharply continental climate zone, the territory of the city falls on its northernmost part, bordering on a subarctic climate, and therefore the weather conditions here are appropriate. The average annual air temperature in the city fluctuates between −4.7 °C, and the average annual humidity is only 68%.

Winters in Novy Urengoy are long and cold (about 284 days a year). The lowest temperatures occur in January and February. And although the monthly averages for these months are −20.7 and −18.6 °C, during this period the thermometer often drops below −30 °C, often remaining at −45 °C.

The warmest period occurs in July with average monthly temperatures of +17.1 °C.

The city is characterized by sudden temperature changes and strong winds.

• Average annual air temperature - −4.7 °C
• Relative air humidity - 68.0%
• Average wind speed - 3.4 m/s

Climate of New Urengoy
Index	Jan.	Feb.	March	Apr.	May	June	July	Aug.	Sep.	Oct.	Nov.	Dec.	Year
Absolute maximum, °C	−1	0	11	20	32	36	40	34	34	28	14	5	40
Average temperature, °C	−26	−22	−13	−6	0	14	17	15	7	−3	−12	−24	−4,7
Absolute minimum, °C	−54	−49	−44	−30	−15	−5	−2	−4	−16	−29	−38	−44	−54
Source: NASA RETScreen Database

Timezone

Population

Population
1979	1980	1986	1987	1989	1996	1998	2000	2001	2002	2003
8580	↗ 16 500	↗ 72 000	↗ 79 000	↗ 93 235	↘ 90 000	↘ 89 900	↘ 89 200	↗ 89 600	↗ 94 456	↗ 95 000
2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
↗ 96 000	↗ 109 100	↗ 112 500	↗ 117 000	↗ 118 400	↗ 118 659	↘ 104 107	↗ 105 467	↗ 112 192	↗ 116 450	↘ 115 753
2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
↘ 115 092	↘ 111 163	↗ 113 254	↗ 114 837	↗ 116 938

As of January 1, 2019, the city ranked 147th out of 1,115 cities in the Russian Federation in terms of population.

National composition

According to the 2010 All-Russian Population Census:

Nationality	Number (persons)	Percentage
Russians	66 779	64,14%
Ukrainians	11 205	10,76%
Tatars	5 197	4,99%
Nogais	2 721	2,61%
Kumyks	2 147	2,06%
Azerbaijanis	2 026	1,95%
Bashkirs	1 756	1,69%
Chechens	1 169	1,12%
Belarusians	1 163	1,12%
Moldovans	1 104	1,06%
Chuvash	639	0,61%
Other	5 768	5,54%
Not specified	2 433	2,34%
Total	104 107	100,00%

Industry

Zapolyarnoe oil and gas condensate field (220 km from the city) - complex gas treatment facility

Gas production enterprises located in the city of Novy Urengoy account for 74% of all gas produced.

There are 2 city-forming enterprises of PJSC Gazprom in the city:

• Gazprom dobycha Urengoy LLC,
• LLC Gazprom dobycha Yamburg,

The building of the Urengoy Gas Production Department of Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy LLC

and independent gas production enterprises:

• JSC "ROSPAN INTERNATIONAL"
• LLC NOVATEK-YURKHAROVNEFTEGAZ,
• JSC ARCTIGAZ,
• CJSC "Achimgaz"
• OJSC "Sibneftegaz"
• CJSC Northgas,
• Severneft-Urengoy LLC,
• OJSC "Severneftegazprom"

as well as drilling enterprises:

• ERIELL group,
• Urengoy Burenie branch of Gazprom Burenie LLC,
• LLC "Gazprom Podzemremont Urengoy"
• Novy Urengoy Drilling Company,
• JSC "Siberian Service Company"

the processing of gas condensate for the needs of the city and the region, as well as its preparation for transport to the Surgut Condensate Stabilization Plant named after V. S. Chernomyrdin (Surgut Condensate Stabilization Plant) is carried out by the Condensate Preparation Plant for Transport (CPKT), owned by Gazprom Pererabotka LLC,

as well as construction companies:

• OJSC Urengoymontazhpromstroy,
• LLC "SMO Yamalstroy"
• LLC "Mostostroy-12"
• Grossmann Rus LLC (Grossmann Group)
• LLC "Zapolyarspetsremstroy"
• and etc.

In the Limbayakha area there is another city-forming enterprise - Urengoyskaya GRES - a branch of JSC INTER RAO - Electric Power Plants, which entered the market for the sale of heat and electricity in 2012.

Urengoy River Port LLC is located in the village of Korotchaevo, which accounts for almost 80% river transportation local scale, has dozens of self-propelled and non-self-propelled fleet units, including floating crane mechanization.

Sport

In Novy Urengoy, volleyball (VK Fakel), mini-football (MFC Yamal), as well as snowmobiling are developed.

On November 4, 2013, the city hosted the Olympic torch relay. The symbol of the Olympics was carried through the city by 60 torchbearers.

Education

Gazprom Technical College Novy Urengoy

• Branch of Tyumen State University,
• Gazprom Technical College Novy Urengoy,
• Novy Urengoy Multidisciplinary College,
• Territorial center for access to electronic information and educational resources of the Russian New University,
• Branch of the South Ural State University of Management and Economics.

A television

• Russia 1
• First channel
• TNT, TRC "Sigma"
• NTV, UrengoyGazProm-TV
• "Yamal-Region"
• TVCenter, shopping and entertainment complex "Novy Urengoy - Impulse"

Broadcasting

• 87.8 MHz - “Retro FM”
• 88.3 MHz - “Radio Chanson”
• 88.7 MHz - “Europe Plus”
• 89.1 MHz - "Avtoradio"
• 89.5 MHz - "Radio Record"
• 89.9 MHz - “Our Radio”
• 101.3 MHz - “Radio Yamala”
• 101.8 MHz - “HIT FM”
• 102.3 MHz - "Radio Sigma"
• 102.8 MHz - "Road Radio"
• 103.3 MHz - “Russian Radio”
• 104.0 MHz - “Radio Mayak”
• 104.4 MHz - “Radio Dacha”
• 104.8 MHz - “Comedy Radio”
• 105.2 MHz - “Radio Iskatel”
• 106.1 MHz - "NRJ"
• 106.5 MHz - “Radio Nord FM”
• 106.9 MHz - “Love Radio”

Territorial division

Northern district of the city (aerial photography)

• Districts:

Northern residential part, Northern industrial zone, Southern residential part, Western industrial zone, Eastern industrial zone

• Microdistricts:

microdistrict Aviator, microdistrict Armavirsky microdistrict Vostochny, microdistrict Friendship, microdistrict Dorozhnikov, microdistrict Krasnogradsky, microdistrict Mirny, microdistrict Polar, microdistrict Installers, microdistrict. Nadezhda microdistrict Optimists, microdistrict. Priozerny, microdistrict Creators, microdistrict. Sovetsky, microdistrict Student, Finnish residential complex, microdistrict. Enthusiastov, microdistrict. Yubileiny, microdistrict Yagelny, 1,2,3,4, SMP-700.

• Quarters:

k-l A, k-l B, k-l G, k-l D, k-l E, k-l Zh, k-l Krymsky, k-l South, Northern communal zone.

New neighborhoods:

microdistrict Donskoy, microdistrict Zaozerny, microdistrict Zvezdny microdistrict Olympic, microdistrict Rainbow, microdistrict Builders, microdistrict. Tundra, microdistrict Cosy.

• Villages included in the city:

Limbayakha village, Korotchaevo village, Uralets village, MK-126 village, MK-144 village.

Transport

Urban and suburban transport

In Novy Urengoy there are bus routes:

• No. 1 - “Airport - North”
• No. 2 - “Eastern Industrial Zone - SMP700”
• No. 3 - “Airport - Railway Station”
• No. 4 - “North - South”
• No. 5 - “Airport - MK-144”
• No. 6 - “Dorozhnik - MK-105”
• No. 7 - “North - railway station”
• No. 8 - “North - South”
• No. 13 - “Airport - Limbayakha - Korotchaevo”
• No. 22, No. 22A - “Limbayakha - Korotchaevo”

Railway transport

Main article: Novy Urengoy (station)

In Novy Urengoy there is a railway station and a railway line begins to. The site is operational, then closed and inactive. In this regard, it is possible to get to Novy Urengoy by rail only through.

Railway station Novy Urengoy

Rail transport connects Novy Urengoy with the cities:

Air transportation

Main article: Novy Urengoy (airport)

Novy Urengoy Airport is located five kilometers southwest of the city.

Air transportation is carried out to the following cities:

• Sabetta

In 2013, at a meeting with the governor, a project for a new airport was presented, taking into account the weather conditions of the region. According to the project, the airport was supposed to be built in the form of the Gazprom emblem, which would be visible from space.

Russian postage stamp 2009 depicting the Parus fountain

Famous residents and natives of the city

• Akhadov, Eldar Alikhasovich (born 1960) - Russian writer, has been working in the city of Novy Urengoy since May 2010.
• Bushuev, Andrey Nikolaevich (1950-2003) - Honored Builder of the Russian Federation.
• Masskva, Lera (born 1988) - Russian singer. Winner of the MTV Russia 2005 award as “Discovery of the Year”. Born and studied in Novy Urengoy.
• Terleeva, Elena Vladimirovna - Russian pop singer, finalist of the “Star Factory-2” project. Born in ; later she lived and studied in Novy Urengoy.
• Bozin, Dmitry Stanislavovich (born 1972) - Honored Artist of Russia, poet, leading actor of the Roman Viktyuk Theater (Moscow). Born in the city (Kyrgyz SSR), in 1986 the family moved to Novy Urengoy, where in 1990 Dmitry graduated from high school.

Twin Cities

Photo gallery

Aurora near the city

Ice drift on the river Sede-Yakha (view of northern region cities)

Temple named after St. Seraphim of Sarov

Sede-Yakha River (view of the northern area of ​​the city)

Leningradsky Prospekt during the celebration of City Day in September 2015

Epiphany Cathedral during the visit of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus'

Memory Square

The building of the municipal administration of the city of Novy Urengoy

Fireworks in honor of City Day (Gubkin Avenue)

Ski race within the framework of the XXXIV open All-Russian mass ski race “Ski Track of Russia - 2016”

Snowmobile racing on water (Lake Molodezhnoe)

Festival of the Peoples of the North (Lake Molodezhnoe)

Guard on Memory Square

Monument "Exploration Well R-2"

Memorial stele at the entrance to the city

see also

• Coat of arms of New Urengoy
• Flag of New Urengoy
• Korotchaevo
• Limbayakha
• Urengoy gas field
• Fakel (volleyball club)

Notes

1. Population of the Russian Federation by municipalities as of January 1, 2019 (Russian). Retrieved July 31, 2019.
2. In Russia, in only 4 subjects of the Federation, the administrative centers are not the largest in terms of population in the region. This Vologda Region(more), Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (, and more), Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Novy Urengoy and more) and the republic (the cities of Sunzha, and Karabulak, as well as a large number of rural settlements are larger than the capital city, whose population is 415 people)
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8. City Charter
9. Mayor
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Literature

• Administrative-territorial division of the Tyumen region (XVII-XX centuries). Tyumen, 2003. 304 p. - ISBN 5-87591-025-9
• Gomenyuk E. V. Memorable places of New Urengoy //Vozrozhdenie historical center Tyumen. Tyumen in the past, present and future. Abstracts of reports and messages of the scientific-practical conference. Tyumen, 2002. pp. 11-13.
• Chirskov V. G. Call of Urengoy. Sverdlovsk: Central Ural Book Publishing House, 1980. 144 p.
• Burov Yu. F. Windows on the north side. Sverdlovsk: Central Ural Book Publishing House, 1981. 128 p.
• Urengoy: people and kilometers. M., 1983. 192 p.
• Lisin V. P. Hello, New Urengoy! Sverdlovsk: Central Ural Book Publishing House, 1983. 96 p.
• Dementyeva N. P., Chebotareva V. S. Urengoy - the torch of youth: collection. Sverdlovsk: Central Ural Book Publishing House, 1986. 208 p.
• Strizhov V.V., Nikonenko I.S. Lessons in mastering. Sverdlovsk: Central Ural Book Publishing House, 1988. 144 p. - ISBN 5-7529-0072-7
• Murzin V.V. Touching Urengoy. M.: Polikom-Ross, 1998. 196 p. - ISBN 5-901087-01-4
• Illuminated by the North. Almanac of poets of New Urengoy. M.: Polygraph LLC, 2000, 176 p. - ISBN 5-93703-003-6
• Constellation of Greater Urengoy: book-album. M.: Penta Publishing House, 2003. 242 p. - ISBN 5-98304-001-4
• Where does Urengoy begin: a chronicle book. M.: Book-Penta, 2005. 256 p. - ISBN 5-98303-006-4
• Novy Urengoy is both a city and destiny: a book-album. Belgorod: Belgorod Regional Printing House, 2005. 288 p. - ISBN 5-86295-093-1

Links

• Administration of the city of Novy Urengoy
• PRO New Urengoy - city portal
• Information and reference portal of the city of Novy Urengoy
• Information Bureau - information directory of the city of Novy Urengoy
• New Urengoy through the eyes of a resident
• Telephone directory of New Urengoy
• New Urengoy in the encyclopedia “My City”

Average temperature in the city by month:

New Urengoy through the eyes of a resident. About climate, ecology, areas, real estate prices and work in the city. Pros and cons of living in Novy Urengoy. Reviews from residents and those who moved to the city.

Geographical location and history of Novy Urengoy

The city of Novy Urengoy is the unofficial gas capital of Russia, a city of gas workers, construction workers, unforgettable white nights and simply beloved Nur, so affectionately nicknamed by local residents. A city where white nights reign in summer, and gray snow rules in winter...

It is not surprising that throughout the summer it is as light at night as during the day. After all, Novy Urengoy is located in the northern part of Western Siberia, only 60 km south of the Arctic Circle on the coast of the Evoyakha River, a tributary of the Pura. And it seems that the very existence of Urengoy is also inextricably linked with rivers - two small rivers flow through the city - Tamchara-Yakha and Sede-Yakha, dividing its territory into two large regions - Northern and Southern.

And the name of the city “Urengoy” is due to the combination of the Khanty and Nenets words “Ure” and “Ngo”, meaning “oxbow lake” and “island” or an island on the site of the old river bed.

Some sources interpret the translation of the word “Urengoy” as “bald hill” or “hill covered with yellow grass,” but earlier the name of the city was translated as “a lost place,” so nicknamed by Gulag prisoners. Actually, it was from the Gulag that the history of the city began back in 1949, when, near New Urengoy, its prisoners, on the orders of Stalin, began to build the Salekhard-Igarka railway, which after his death was declared economically unfeasible, the work was curtailed, and the road was nicknamed “dead.”

Only years later, employees of the Tsibenko seismic station would borrow one of the Gulag camps as a base, and later discover the first gas field, later named Urengoyskoye. So in June 1966, in Urengoy, the team of master Polupanov would cut the first exploration well, and a new Urengoy natural gas field would appear on the geological map of the USSR - the largest in the world in terms of hydrocarbon production.

However, active development of the city will begin only in 1973, when the first convoy arrives from the village of Pangody to the site of the future settlement in order to begin construction of the city. In 1975, Novy Urengoy was registered as a village, and already in 1978, Urengoygazdobycha emerged - the largest production association, which reached the production of the first billion cubic meters of Urengoy gas by May 30 of the same year. Just two years later, in 1980, Novy Urengoy received the status of a city, and already in 1983, through the constructed Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, Urengoy gas began to flow to Western European countries.

After which the city continues to develop at a rapid pace and soon surpasses the administrative capital of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Salekhard, in economic indicators and population, becoming the second largest city in the district and second only to Noyabrsk. Today, about 550 billion cubic meters of natural gas are produced annually in Yamal, where the leading role belongs to the enterprises of Novy Urengoy, and the city itself is among the top ten in terms of per capita income in the Russian Federation.

“I came out of the forest; there was a severe frost" or all about the climate and ecology of Novy Urengoy

However, this “income” is not so easy for the residents of Novy Urengoy, who live in harsh climatic conditions, as evidenced even by the entries in their work books - “Region of the Far North”. Despite the fact that Novy Urengoy is located in the temperate continental climate zone, the city’s territory falls on its northernmost part, bordering on a subarctic climate, and therefore the weather conditions here are appropriate. The average annual air temperature in the city fluctuates between – 5.7°C, and the average annual humidity is 78%.

Winters in Urengoy are long and cold (about 284 days a year) and, as in Nekrasov’s poem, are characterized by “severe frosts.” The lowest temperatures occur in January and February. And although the monthly averages for these months are -21.7 and -20.1°C, during this period the thermometer often drops below -30°C, often remaining at -45°C.

During periods of such severe cold weather, schoolchildren are announced on all local TV channels forced holidays - “aktiki”, and on days of particularly severe frosts, even some organizations are closed. As hard as the extreme cold, it is endured by local residents in winter time years and a low daylight hours, averaging 1.5-2 hours, while on the shortest day of the year - the winter solstice - the sun in Novy Urengoy appears for only 1 hour and 5 minutes.

But the main attraction of summer in the city, as opposed to winter, are the white nights, lasting from June to August, and the warmest period occurs in July with average monthly temperatures of +15.1°C. Despite the fact that summer in the city lasts only about 35 days, often at this time in Novy Urengoy there is suffocating heat of about +25..+30°C.

The amount of precipitation that falls during the year is quite insignificant and amounts to no more than 400 mm. One more characteristic feature cities are strong winds (10-15 m/sec, or even higher) and sudden temperature changes, at which during the day the thermometer can change its readings by 15-20°C.

But the environmental situation in the city, despite its “gas-producing status,” is characterized by enviable stability. The main industrial enterprises of Novy Urengoy are located far beyond the city limits, in its so-called industrial zone, household waste, along with snow in winter, is regularly removed, and any unauthorized landfills in Novy Urengoy are immediately punishable by huge fines. In 2010, a workshop for recycling mercury-containing lamps, including fluorescent lamps, was also opened in Nura.

The “multinational” face of Urengoy residents – features of the city’s population

Severe natural conditions could not but affect the demographic characteristics of New Urengoy. And, despite the fact that the gas capital is the second most populous city in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, according to 2012 data, only 106 thousand people live in Novy Urengoy. However, for the conditions of the Far North, this is practically a record, especially considering the fact that in 1979 the number of Urengoy residents did not even reach the ten thousand mark, amounting to only 8,580 people.

But the development of the city proceeded at a rapid pace. After the opening of Urengoygazdobycha, the need for labor resources increased every year, an increasing number of people working in gas and engineering and construction specialties came to the city, and by 1989 more than 93 thousand people lived in Nura. It is after this point that the population begins to grow, mainly not due to incoming labor resources, but naturally due to the birth rate. In 2002, the number of Urengoy residents reached 94.5 thousand people, and statistics at the beginning of 2014 already indicate 115.8 thousand city residents.

It is not for nothing that Novy Urengoy is called the city of the future and youth. The demographic situation of Nur is characterized by enviable stability and with a birth rate of about 14 people per 1000 Urengoy residents (2011), today the number of its residents under the age of 18 is more than 25% of the total population of the city.

The working population of Urengoy is also large (over 60% of the total), which is primarily due to the fact that after retirement, most Urengoy residents move for permanent residence to the central regions of the country on their own or under a local resettlement program. The majority of the working population consists of workers at gas production enterprises with narrow technical specialties, engineers, builders and service workers.

Another typical feature of the population of the unofficial gas capital is its multinationality. Today, representatives of more than 40 nationalities live in Novy Urengoy, most of whom are Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Chechens and Dagestanis, Circassians, as well as other people from the southern Russian republics, including countries of the post-Soviet space. Based on this, the city’s believing population is divided into two main groups: Christians (the vast majority) and Muslims.

Districts and real estate of New Urengoy

But territorially, according to official documentation, the city of Novy Urengoy is divided into four large districts: northern and southern, as well as the districts of Limbayakha and Korotchaevo. The first two districts, popularly called “Severka” and “Yuzhka”, actually represent the city itself and are separated by a tundra zone and two rivers.

But the districts of Limbayakha and Korotchaevo are more than 70 km away from the center of New Urengoy, and until 2004 they were autonomous administrative-territorial units. However, in September 2004, a referendum was held among the population of these villages on the desire of the residents to become part of the city of Novy Urengoy, as a result of which, by a majority of votes, it was decided to transform the villages of Limbayakha and Korotchaevo into areas of the “gas capital”. Thus, Novy Urengoy acquired two districts significantly removed from its center and became one of the longest cities in the world with a total length of more than 80 km.

However, the Urengoy residents themselves still consider Korotchaevo and Limbayakha to be separate villages, and their two inextricably linked parts, the northern and the southern, are considered districts of the city.

Yuzhka, as a district of New Urengoy, is the oldest part of the city, from which the history of the emergence and development of Urengoy actually began. It was here on September 23, 1973, on the site of the future city, under the famous words of the Minister of Gas Industry Sabit Orujov: “Here will be the city of gas workers and builders Urengoy,” a symbolic peg was driven into the ground.

Today, the southern part of the city is the location of most administrative and public institutions. The main places of “meeting and parting” in the city are located here - the railway station and the airport,

and the main points of “treatment and rehabilitation” of New Urengoy - the Municipal City Hospital and the largest private medical clinic “Scanner”, as well as the “favorite authorities” of entrepreneurs, accountants and the rest of the working population of the city - pension, social insurance and tax services.

Geographically, the south also belongs to Migration Service, Civil Registry Office, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Traffic Police, a mosque and an Orthodox church under construction. Actually, the main city-forming and largest gas industry enterprises are concentrated in the southern part of the city. These are Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy and Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, as well as Burgaz, Rospan International, Rosneftegaz, etc.

But the “conventional center” of the southern part of New Urengoy is occupied by the Gazodobytchik Cultural and Sports Center and the main square of the city, where all the most significant events of the “gas capital” take place. Not far from the square is the picturesque Nameless Lake, surrounded by a small park. In summer, seasonal cafes operate along its shores, and in winter, you can ride on a snowmobile or a reindeer sleigh on the frozen lake (during the holiday of the Northern Peoples).

Although, unlike the northern part of New Urengoy, the fabric of the south is mostly woven from parallel and intersecting streets (central Leningradsky Prospekt, Sibirskaya Street, Geologorazvedchikov, 26 Congress of the CPSU, etc.), and not from the usual microdistricts, the location of residential buildings is here also distinguished by its “northern compactness”.

And each “mini-group” of residential high-rise buildings certainly has its own school, kindergarten, pharmacy and supermarket (shopping center) or several grocery stores.

And in order to become the owner of an apartment in one of these residential areas of New Urengoy, you will have to pay a tidy sum. Thus, according to average estimates, the cost of one-room apartments in the southern part of the city today on the secondary market is about 3.2-3.5 million rubles (depending on the condition of the housing, square footage, number of floors, distance from the bus stop, etc.).

Housing in wooden houses, the so-called KDMO, is much cheaper, and there are fewer and fewer of them in Novy Urengoy every year. So, on average, a one-room apartment in such a building can cost a potential buyer 2 million rubles. But since such real estate is often sold even without a warrant (at prices of 100-300 thousand rubles), there are very few, if not very few, people willing to purchase it.

Urengoy residents are also in no hurry to buy up the newfangled townhouses that have recently sprung up like mushrooms on the outskirts of the southern part of the city. And although their prices are not much higher than housing prices in apartment buildings, not everyone dares to purchase a private house, built on permafrost territory.

Housing in the northern part of the city, which was developed later than the southern part and is rightfully considered its residential area, is no less expensive, if not more. Well, since most of the houses here are newer than in the south, the cost of one-room apartments ranges from 3.2-3.7 million rubles (resale), and the residential buildings themselves are located in the city’s neighborhoods adjacent to each other: Druzhba, Mirny, Yubileiny , Soviet, Eastern and Student.

As in the south, almost every district has complete infrastructure - its own school, kindergarten, pharmacy and a number of shops or even a shopping center. By the way, all residential buildings in the city are maintained by management companies and the administration in good, often excellent condition: every spring, snow and ice are cleared from the roofs, and the facades of the most “dilapidated” houses are re-plastered, repainted, and sometimes even re-clad.

In the northern part of New Urengoy administrative and public buildings much less than in the south. Here are located: the city administration and the departments of the clinic and passport office. Among the city-forming enterprises in the north, one can name the Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy branch. But the real decorations of the north are rightfully considered its temple, “campus” and park.

Beyond the outskirts of the Druzhba microdistrict, on the picturesque coast of the Sede-Yakha River, the wooden temple of St. Seraphim of Sarov rises majestically.

Just a few minutes walk from it there is a young park with a unique summer fountain. Well, in the very “heart” of the northern part of the city there is a student town with the Novy Urengoy Technical School of the Gas Industry and the square with the Victory Monument located in front of it.

Infrastructure of Nur - a paradise in three dimensions

As they say, we won’t take it with one, but with the other. And if the natural conditions of the city, with their severity, are not conducive to a joyful stay in it, then the infrastructure of New Urengoy, on the contrary, is thought out to the smallest detail for joy and convenience local residents. Moreover, this can be said with confidence both about transport and about the industrial and social infrastructure of Nura - a kind of paradise in three dimensions.

Thus, Novy Urengoy can safely boast of 100% availability of all means of transportation. At the same time, the most popular in the city has always been and remains air Transport. Today, the local airport receives aircraft from Moscow (3-5 flights daily), northern capital– St. Petersburg (at least a flight per week), as well as Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Salekhard, etc. During the “warm period” between Novy Urengoy and Krasnodar, as well as Nur and Mineralnye Vody There are seasonal flights.

No less developed in the gas capital is the railway service, represented mainly by Russian Railways trains. So, a train departs from Urengoy every day to Moscow, and according to this message, the Yamal branded train also runs on schedule. In addition, trains depart from the Urengoy station to Tyumen, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, etc., and the railway connection itself plays an important role in freight turnover. An equally important role in the city’s economy is played by the local river port, located in Korotchaevo and being a transport artery between cities and populated areas. points of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Northern Sea Route. The Urengoy River Port bears the lion's share of cargo delivery for local construction and gas production enterprises.

The city's transport network is also very developed: in addition to the main roads crossing the territory of Nur, the city has bypass routes, and in its southern part a local viaduct was built for optimal transport interchange.

That is why there are practically no traffic jams in Novy Urengoy, with the exception of slight congestion on the highway in the morning hours (from 7 to 9 am), and the main ones are caused either by road accidents or by “slipping” freight trains under the viaduct. The road surface itself is different in the city high quality Moreover, in “problem areas” every summer repair work is carried out and new asphalt is laid. IN last years and a tradition arose every summer to expand the highway in some area of ​​Urengoy.

In addition, due to the city’s low supply of garages, the Urengoy administration annually increases the area of ​​“parking spaces” near houses by increasing the driveways in front of them.

As mentioned earlier, housing and communal services are not lagging behind: the areas adjacent to houses, as well as the entrances to them, are regularly cleaned by Urengoyzhilservice employees, and in winter they are cleared of snow. Actually, such diligence is partly caused by high prices on public utilities in Nura, where, for example, 1 cubic meter of hot water costs Urengoy residents on average 104 rubles, cold water - 28 rubles, with the cost of a cubic meter of wastewater disposal being 31 rubles. And the very “maintenance” of housing, for example, a small one-room apartment, will cost about 1,400 rubles per month; a slightly smaller amount, about 1,150 rubles, will have to be paid for its monthly heat supply. At the same time, the cost of 1 thousand cubic meters of natural gas costs Urengoy residents 2,686 rubles, which is only 27 rubles per month for the maintenance of one stove. Average prices for electricity in the city are 1.7 rubles per 1 kWh.

Social infrastructure is also very developed in Novy Urengoy. There are more than 38 preschool institutions, 24 schools in the city, including a local gymnasium, a secondary evening school and 2 elementary schools. The doors of the local Support Center are open for children with developmental disabilities, and Urengoy youth can receive secondary vocational education at a number of local schools, including the gas industry technical school. In addition, 7 branches have been opened in the city. Russian universities, the most important among which is the Yamal Oil and Gas Institute.

Nur's healthcare sector is represented by 11 medical institutions, with the largest of them being the municipal city multidisciplinary hospital. In addition, the gas capital has 17 sports institutions, as well as a number of city palaces and cultural and sports centers.

Deserved status of the gas capital - enterprises and work in Novy Urengoy

In fact, Novy Urengoy received the unofficial status of the “gas capital” of Russia quite deservedly, because the leading role in the economic complex of the city belongs to the gas industry. Thus, the city-forming enterprises of Nur are such global industrial giants as Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy, Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, a branch of Urengoy Drilling, Gazprom Podzemremont Urengoy, as well as other large enterprises such as Rospan International, " Arcticgaz", "Achimgaz", "Rosneftegaz", etc., which own more than 74% of all gas production in the Russian Federation.

It is worth noting that the fuel and energy industry of the city employs more than 80% of the city’s labor resources. At the same time, the main players in the fuel sector are Urengoygazprom, Yamburggazdobycha, Burgaz, Sibneftegaz, etc., while in the foreground in the electric power industry are Tyumenenergo, Urengoyskaya GRES, Mobile Power Stations Urengoy. and “Mobile Energy”.

Second fiddle after the fuel and energy complex in the economy of New Urengoy is played by the food industry, represented by a number of enterprises producing fish, meat and sausage, smoke-dried and dairy products, as well as various semi-finished products and bakery products. The actual production of confectionery and bakery products is most branches of the food industry of New Urengoy. And here it is impossible not to mention such leaders as the branch of Zapsibgaztorg - Urengoygaztorg, Yamal-plus, Ankor, Topaz and Revansh.

In the gas capital, the enterprises “Novo-Urengoyskaya Voda” and “ Pure water“soft drinks and drinking water are also produced, and the organizations “Assortment” and “Urengoygazdorstroymaterialy” supply local beer to the shelves of the city. In addition, about 400 retail trade enterprises, 6 food, mixed and clothing markets, as well as 36 public catering organizations and about 13 consumer services enterprises supply city residents with industrial and food products.

In recent years, namely a decade, several large shopping centers and entertainment complexes.

These include the Helicopter and Hudson shopping centers, which belong to the same owners and are essentially one chain based on the Anchor grocery supermarket, which is also represented in the city and in other shopping centers, for example, in the Yamal shopping and entertainment complex. .

But the pioneers include the Urengoygaztorg retail chain, whose products are presented in the large shopping centers “Siberia”, “Victoria”, “White Nights” and “Desyatochka”.

There are also chains of supermarkets for household chemicals and cosmetics in the city, such as Optima and Lyubimy, Letual, as well as large furniture stores and electronics supermarkets, including M-Video and Expert. Pharmacy chains in Novy Urengoy are represented by pharmacies “Rigla”, “Scanner”, “Health of the North”, etc.

In recent years, incredible competition has also flared up in the field of “fashion and beauty” - more than 10 beauty salons, hairdressers and ateliers have been opened in the city, as well as in the provision of legal and accounting services. The banking sector is dominated by two Russian giants - Sberbank, Gazprombank - and several largest Siberian banks Zapsibkombank, Sibneftebank, Khanty-Mansiysk Bank, etc. And all of the above for only 106 thousand inhabitants, which indicates high economic development of the city.

But the area of ​​information support in Novy Urengoy is occupied by four printed media mass media and a similar number of local broadcasters.

Criminal Novy Urengoy – gangster 90s and “clan” 2000s

By the way, a considerable share of the latter’s broadcasting is occupied by local crime reports. And if in the fateful 90s they were mainly devoted to local gang wars on the topic of “redividing an already divided world,” as well as reports about growing drug addiction, including children’s, then in the last decade, more and more often, reports about resonant conflicts based on interethnic strife. And the main participants in them are representatives of local southern diasporas, for example, the Chechen one, and “clanism” in Urengoy still remains one of the main problems of the local police.

So in 2008, during a birthday celebration, which was attended by about 10 people of Slavic nationality, a group of Caucasians of about 40 people suddenly appeared at the celebration, who subsequently started a fight using knives and shooting. As it turned out, one of the guys present at the birthday party had previously had a conflict with them, which the Caucasians decided to “resolve” at the time of their arrival. The result of the fight was the murder of a young man, Alexander Stakhov, and two more guys with knife wounds were urgently hospitalized in a local hospital.

After this incident, there were several more interethnic conflicts in the city, ending in fights and shootings. That is why later in Novy Urengoy, additional round-the-clock patrols of Nur were introduced to help the police in order to strengthen control over the criminal situation in the city.

At the beginning of 2012, steps were also taken to “close” Novy Urengoy as a city industrial value, which visitors could enter strictly by invitation or challenge. At the entrance to the city, “border” posts were set up, and inspection at the airport was supplemented by passport control. However, this practice did not last long and once again, for about the tenth time, the so-called “closure” of the city was a fiasco.

Urengoy tourist

In fact, ordinary guests of the city, tourists, as well as people coming to Urengoy on business visits, for whom the closure of the gas capital meant, first of all, paperwork, could not help but rejoice at this fiasco. Today they can freely visit the city, because, despite its obvious “youth” for the city, Novy Urengoy can safely boast of the presence of many local attractions.

Guests of the city should first of all visit the local stela of New Urengoy - a symbolic monument to the gas capital, located at the entrance to the city. And of course, cross the “invisible” line - the border of the Arctic Circle, on which a unique metal monument in the form of a sphere is installed.

Also in the city you can see a themed Victory memorial, where flowers are laid on each anniversary,

get acquainted with the pedestal “Pioneers of the development of Urengoy”, located in front of one of the divisions of Urengoygazprom,

visit the local city museum fine arts and just relax in the green park area “Druzhba” with its luxurious sail fountain.

Nature lovers can also visit Nameless Lake, which borders a small residential area in the southern part of the city.

Well, for those guests who love to eat deliciously, dance and relax in style, there are dozens of Urengoy cafes, restaurants and night clubs. The restaurants “Old Castle”, “Banker”, “Polar Owl” and “Lyon” are distinguished by their special sophistication, but a stay in them may seem somewhat expensive to guests who are not accustomed to “northern” prices. Thus, a table at the Banker club will cost its visitors about 4,000 rubles: payment for tables in this club is required, and for this amount you can order about two servings of excellent shish kebab, a side dish, a couple of salads and light cocktails.

The Madagascar cafe and a number of cafes and eateries in the Hudson, Helicopter and Siberia shopping centers have more affordable prices. Here you can simply chat with friends over a cup of aromatic coffee with cinnamon and taste excellent cottage cheese pie. But the famous McDonald's is not in the city yet, but it is being successfully replaced by a cafe with a similar menu - “In Great Demand”. In the city you can relax in two bowling clubs in " polar owl" and "Yamal", and for fans active rest play paintball and conquer the local skald.

In winter, you can ride snowmobiles and admire the local ice town, which is built every year on the main square by genius architects. Actually, in Novy Urengoy in winter, even mini-bell towers are built from snow on Epiphany days, and on the Sede-Yakha River, ice holes are cut and fonts are installed for all Christians who want to take a dip. Well, after just a month and a half, in early to mid-March, great folk festivities begin - the Festival of the Peoples of the North, where you can taste delicious venison and kebab from northern fish, ride a sleigh in a reindeer sled and just admire the faces of those who inhabited this city long before its development.

General information and history

New Urengoy is located in the center of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug on the Tamchara-Yakha, Evo-Yakha and Sede-Yakha rivers. Is the most big city in its subject, and in terms of population and industry it surpasses its capital, Salekhard. Novy Urengoy can also be called “the gas production capital of the Russian Federation.”

In 1949, construction of the Igarka-Salekhard railway began. Mostly Gulag prisoners worked here. After Stalin's death, all work was curtailed. Despite the unrealization of this project, in the future it helped drillers and seismic surveyors to discover local deposits and promptly develop them. Because the specialists settled in the barracks of one of the former camps. In 1966, the Urengoy natural gas field was discovered.

In 1975, the village of Novy Urengoy was built and an airport appeared. Three years later, commercial exploitation of the deposit began. The village developed intensively, more and more gas was produced year after year, and eventually in 1980 it was given city status. Four years later, gas went to Western Europe along the Urengoy - Pomary - Uzhgorod gas pipeline.

At the end of 2012, the city actually became closed due to the fact that migrants from other regions of the Russian Federation and neighboring countries carried out terrorist activities in Novy Urengoy and committed many crimes.

Districts of New Urengoy

• Districts: Western, Eastern and Northern industrial zones, Northern and Southern residential areas.
• Microdistricts: 1,2,3,4, Aviator, Armavirsky, Vostochny, Donskoy, Dorozhnikov, Druzhba, Zaozerny, Zvezdny, Krasnogradsky, Mirny, Installers, Nadezhda, Olympic, Polar, Priozerny, Raduzhny, SMP-700, Creators, Soviet, Builders, Student, Tundra, Cozy, Finnish residential complex, Enthusiasts, Yubileiny and Yagelny.
• Quarters: A, B, G, D, E, Zh, Krymsky, Southern and Northern communal zone.
• Villages included within the city limits: Limbayakha, MK-126, 144, Korotchaevo and Uralets.

Population of New Urengoy for 2018 and 2019. Number of residents of Novy Urengoy

Data on the number of city residents are taken from the Federal State Statistics Service. The official website of the Rosstat service is www.gks.ru. The data was also taken from the unified interdepartmental information and statistical system, the official website of EMISS www.fedstat.ru. The website publishes data on the number of residents of Novy Urengoy. The table shows the distribution of the number of residents of Novy Urengoy by year; the graph below shows the demographic trend in different years.

Graph of population changes in Novy Urengoy:

The total population in 2014 was about 116 thousand people. The birth rate in the city in 2011 was 14 newborns per thousand people. A quarter of Novy Urengoy residents are currently minors, 60% are people of working age. After retirement, city dwellers usually move to Central Russia.

Representatives of over 40 nations live in Novy Urengoy. The national composition in 2010 was distributed as follows: Russians (64.14%), Ukrainians (10.76%), Tatars (4.99%), Nogais (2.61%), Kumyks (2.06%), Azerbaijanis (1.95%), Bashkirs (1.69%), Belarusians, Chechens (1.12% each), Moldovans (1.06%), Chuvash (0.61%), other nationalities (5.54%) . 2.34% did not indicate nationality.

Ethnic names: (new) Urengoy, (new) Urengoy, (new) Urengoy.

New Urengoy is the unofficial gas capital of Russia, a place where beautiful white nights reign. In this regard, throughout the summer, at night in this city it is as bright as day. This is due to the location of the city - in the north of Western Siberia. Also, two small rivers pass through Novy Urengoy - Tamchara-Yakha and Sede-Yakha, which divide the city into Northern and Southern regions. As it became known, its name is from the Khanty and Nenets languages: the words “Ure” and “Ngo” symbolize the “oxbow lake” and “an island on the site of the old river bed.” However, the residents of the city simply call it “Beloved Nur”.

Some experts translate the word “Urengoy” as “bald hill.” Earlier in the 50s, Gulag prisoners called this territory a “lost place”, because it was here that many years ago prisoners, on Stalin’s orders, built a railway.

It is worth noting that today Novy Urengoy is a prosperous city in terms of economic indicators and industrial potential. Every year about 550 billion cubic meters of natural gas are produced here, where the main role belongs to the enterprises of Novy Urengoy.

Regarding the climate, it is worth noting that the winters here are quite long and cold. The lowest temperatures are recorded in January and February and are -21.7 and -20.1°C. Experts have noted cases when the temperature reached -45°C.

Summer in Novy Urengoy is quite short - 35 days, the hottest month is July with temperatures around +25..+30°C. There is little precipitation, but there are strong winds.

The environmental situation in the city is quite enviable, despite the developed gas industry here. The main industrial enterprises are located outside the city, household waste is regularly collected, and any landfills in the city are punishable by fines.

It is also worth noting that Novy Urengoy is also thriving in terms of population. According to statistics, as of 2012, 106 thousand people live here. However, for the conditions of the Far North, this is practically a record, given the fact that at the end of the 20th century the number of Urengoy residents was not even ten thousand.

Another feature of the city is its multinationality. At the moment, more than 40 nationalities live here, most of which are Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Chechens and many others. The main religions are Islam and Christianity.

Geographically, Novy Urengoy is divided into 4 districts: northern and southern, which are called by the local population as “north” and “yuzhka”, as well as the districts of Limbayakha and Korotchaevo. The northern and southern regions are separated by tundra and two rivers, but represent the city itself. In turn, Limbayakha and Korotchaevo are located far from the center and were previously autonomous territorial entities. However, in 2004 they became part of Novy Urengoy. Thus, Novy Urengoy became one of the longest cities with a length of more than 80 km.

It is worth noting that the city has quite developed transport links: all types of means of transport are available, with air transport remaining the most popular. Also, the railway connection and the local river port, which is a transport artery between the northern cities, are no less developed here.

Social infrastructure is also very developed in Novy Urengoy, which is represented by a large number educational institutions both for schoolchildren and students.

Novy Urengoy is one of the largest and most significant settlements that belongs to the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Russian Federation. It has enormous industrial potential, many times greater than even the administrative center of the district called Salekhard. Where is Urengoy located?

The specified settlement is located on the territory of Western Siberia, namely, in the Tyumen region. The distance to Salekhard is 450 km, to Moscow – 2350 km. The time difference between the capital and Novy Urengoy is 2 hours. There are Northern and Southern parts of the city. This conditional division of New Urengoy occurred thanks to two rivers flowing through its territory. The rivers are named Sede-Yakha and Tamchara-Yakha.

The local population is small. Thus, according to the 2010 population census, the city’s population was 119,600 people. In Novy Urengoy there is a large railroad station, as well as an active river port. In addition, the city is secretly considered a leader in the gas production industry, since the largest deposits of natural gas are located on its territory.

Climate of New Urengoy

The region where Urengoy is located covers an area of ​​113 square meters. km, which lies 60 km from the Arctic Circle on the left bank of the lacustrine-alluvial plain of the Pur River. The area near the city is marshy. Geographically, Novy Urengoy is located in the forest-tundra zone, at the junction of 2 climatic zones, namely, temperate and subarctic. This location causes a harsh continental climate and extremely cold winters.

The winter period lasts for 10 months, and summer, on the contrary, lasts about 35 days. In summer it is cool and windy here. The harsh climate of New Urengoy is significantly influenced by the sea, frost, and the movement of air currents from the Atlantic.
The average air temperature in Urengoy is -6 degrees, the January temperature, as a rule, drops to -22 degrees, and the average monthly temperature in July reaches only +15 degrees.

On the coldest days, and there are only five of them, the air temperature is a record 47 degrees. Sudden temperature changes provoke the appearance of snowstorms and blizzards. The flat area where Urengoy is located is located in the zone of eternal glaciers. IN summer time the soil on it thaws a little, approximately one to two meters deep. The shortest daylight hours last one hour and seven minutes.

A short excursion into the history of the city

In Stalin's times, in the tundra, which is located near the Arctic Circle, construction work began on laying a railway (its route Salekhard - Igarka). The labor of Gulag prisoners was used to build the railway track. They planned to stay in the developed area and live there permanently. However, everything changed after Stalin's death: design developments were curtailed by 1960 and the abandoned road began to be called a dead road.

Despite this, the work of the builders more than paid off in the future. With their help, vast deposits of Urengoy natural gas were discovered. In 1966, the station of seismologists V. Tsybenko was located in the barracks where prisoners of the so-called “503 construction site” lived. The first well was drilled on June 6 of the same year. At the same time, a new designation appeared on the geological map of the country where Urengoy is located.

It is this period that is considered the date of formation of the unique Urengoy gas field with the same name.
On September 22, 1973, a sign with the symbolic inscription “Novy Urengoy” appeared on the territory of the field, and workers arrived at the site to build the first buildings in the settlement.

The status of a district settlement of Novy Urengoy acquired already in September 1980, as the city infrastructure and gas production volumes grew at a rapid pace. The first gas pipeline was built already in 1983, it was called “Urengoy – Pomary – Uzhgorod”.

Four years later, natural gas began to be pumped into Western European gas storage facilities. New Urengoy is one of the longest cities in the world, which includes two huge villages - Korotchaevo and Limbayakha. The length of the territory occupied by Urengoy was 80 km.

Interesting facts about Novy Urengoy

In Novy Urengoy there are large joint-stock companies that are engaged in natural gas production. In particular, these are: Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy LLC, Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg LLC, and Gazprom Podzemremont Urengoy LLC. These enterprises, together with a number of other companies, are part of the corporation of the world leader in gas production, OJSC Gazprom.

A significant part (about 75%) of the total amount of gas produced in the Russian Federation falls on their share. In addition, in the near future a modern gas chemical complex will be built in Urengoy, as well as a complex for the production of polyethylene and ethylene. Novy Urengoy is home to an airport of the same name, as well as a number of highly accredited educational institutions.

There is practically no transport interchange in the settlement. It was planned that the city would be connected to the outside world using the Salekhard-Labytnangi bridge across the Ob River. However, these projects were not destined to become a reality. Therefore, you can only get to the place where Urengoy is located through the city of Tyumen.