Strezhevoy is a city in the extreme north-west of the Tomsk region of Russia, forms the Strezhevoy urban district as the only settlement in its composition and is a city of regional subordination. Population - 40 830 people. (2020). The city was founded in 1966 on the right bank of the Pasol River (a channel of the Ob River).
The city inherited its name from the fishing village
Strezhevoye located in this area. The name is derived from the
Russian dialectal core, core - "steep bank of the river", "channel,
bystrina, channel, rampart". The village was founded by special
settlers in 1931 (according to other sources, in 1932).
The
impetus for the development of this territory was the discovery of
oil fields in the north of the region. On January 13, 1966, by order
of Glavtyumenneftegaz, the Tomskneft oil field department was
established. In the same year, on July 23, on the banks of the Pasol
River near the village of Strezhevoe, an oil workers' settlement was
founded.
The official date of the foundation of the city of
Strezhevoy is September 1, 1966. In the late 1960s, Strezhevoy was
declared an All-Union Shock Komsomol Construction Project. On April
5, 1978, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the
RSFSR, the working village of Strezhevoy was transformed into a city
of regional subordination. City district - since 2004.
Earlier, on the territory of the present city there were settlements
of the eastern Khanty.
Physical and geographical
characteristics
Strezhevoy is located 635 km north-west of Tomsk.
Surrounded by the territory of the Alexandrovsky district; at the
same time, in the extreme northwest, the territory of the Strezhevoy
urban district borders on the Nizhnevartovsk district of the
Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.
The city is located in the
zone of northern taiga and bogs, on the bank of the right channel of
the Ob River - the Pasol River (translated from Khanty as
“channel”).
The period of white nights lasts from late May to
August.
In terms of natural and climatic
conditions, Strezhevoy is equated to the areas of the Far North. The
climate is sharply continental with long winters and short summers;
according to the Köppen climate classification - subarctic (Dfc
index). The average air temperature for the year is −2.5 ° C. The
absolute minimum air temperature is −62 ° C, the absolute maximum
temperature is + 40 ° C. The average July temperature is + 17.9 ° C,
the average January temperature is −25.7 ° C. The number of days
with snow cover is 195, the height of the snow cover is 60-80 cm.
The first snow falls in October and finally thaws in April. The
duration of the frost-free period in the city is 83-89 days. The
duration of the heating season is 250-260 days. The annual amount of
precipitation in the territory ranges from 425 mm to 679 mm, with a
norm of 510 mm, of which 347 mm are in the warm season, and 243 mm
in the cold season.
A characteristic feature of the climate
of Strezhevoy and its environs are sharp drops in atmospheric
pressure and air temperature. The daily pressure drop can be up to
10 mm Hg. Art. The daily temperature drop can be up to 20-25 ° C.
The frequency of occurrence of weather favorable for humans is less
than 73 days (20%) per year, the number of days with severe weather
in the daytime is from 60 to 100. The territory is located in the
zone of ultraviolet deficiency for more than 4 months a year.
The transport infrastructure in Strezhevoy is
represented by road, river and air traffic. The nearest river port,
Koltogorsk, is located 10 km from Strezhevoy on the Ob River. The
nearest railway station is located 63 km from Strezhevoy, in the
city of Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug.
The
city bus network is represented by four urban (1, 2, 3, 4) and three
summer cottages (106, 108, 109) routes. Buses operate on schedule at
intervals of 30 minutes or more. There are buses GAZ-3221 (city),
PAZ-3205, PAZ-4234 and LiAZ-5256 (dachas). All routes are served by
Strezhevoy Teploenergosnabzhenie LLC. The fare in the city is 20
rubles.
Taxi transportation is carried out by about ten
passenger taxi services, the fare is 100 rubles. Cheap gasoline and
relatively high wages contribute to high motorization of the
population. Traffic jams, uncharacteristic for small towns, are
observed in the city.
Intercity bus service operates on the
routes Strezhevoy - Nizhnevartovsk (No. 672) and Strezhevoy -
Aleksandrovskoye (no number).
External road transport was
initially undeveloped due to the lack of roads. Positive shifts were
outlined in the 2010s in connection with the implementation of one
of the elements of the Northern Latitude Highway project - on
October 30, 2014, a capital bridge over the Vakh River was opened)
before that, a pontoon bridge and a ferry were used to cross the
river). Thus, the only year-round road connects the city with the
neighboring Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, primarily with
Nizhnevartovsk. The second road with a ferry crossing to Medvedevo
allows you to get to Aleksandrovskoye and to the main winter roads.
There is no road connection with the regional center Tomsk. In the
cold season, you can get to Tomsk by a winter road through Kargasok;
there is also a winter road through the Igolsko-Talovoye field to
the Novosibirsk region (the so-called "Orlov" winter road).
Until recently, river transport was the leading one for the city
in the delivery of goods, with the development of road transport its
role decreases, but the function of ferry transportation and
delivery of building materials, bulky cargo remains. The Koltogorsk
river port is located 10 km from the city. Passenger motor ships
operate to Kargask, Nizhnevartovsk and Surgut. Ferries run to
Medvedevo and Kargask. The ferry to Medvedevo runs 4 times a day.
Ferry Koltogorsk - Kargasok runs 3 times a week, travel time - a day
downstream and up to a day and a half when moving up. Enters
Medvedevo, Aleksandrovskoe, Lukashkin Yar and other settlements. The
queue for this ferry can take several days.
From the moment
the city was founded until the opening of the bridge over the Vakh,
air transport was the leading means of passenger communication
between the city and other cities. In 1997-2000, Strezhevoy was the
base for the Strezhevoy Airlines, which had An-24 and Yak-42
aircraft in its fleet. The airport is located 2 km from the city,
from which there are flights to Tomsk, Novosibirsk, remote
rotational villages. The airport's passenger traffic is small -
40-50 thousand people a year. After the simplification of road
communication with Nizhnevartovsk, residents of Strezhevoy began to
actively fly through the more developed airport of this city. In
2016-2018, Strezhevoy Airport was in a state of bankruptcy. On July
11, 2011 in the vicinity of the city there was a plane crash of the
An-24 aircraft of the Angara airline, flying from Tomsk to Surgut,
seven people were killed.