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Khanty-Mansiysk (Khant. Yomvosh, Yomvoҷ, Mans. Abga) is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra and the eponymous municipal district. As an administrative-territorial unit, KhMAO has the status of a city of district importance. Within the framework of local self-government, the city of Khanty-Mansiysk forms the municipality with the status of a city okrug as the only settlement in its composition. Khanty-Mansiysk is the largest of the centers of the autonomous districts of Russia and the only one whose population exceeds 90,000 people (including the centers of the united autonomous districts).
The city is located on the high bank of the wide bend
of the Irtysh, which goes around the city from the south and west. The
winding of the river in this place was formed bypassing the
hill-remnant, on the slopes of which Khanty-Mansiysk lies. The plan of
the city resembles a large coffee bean, the oval of the borders is
formed by the river and the Bypass Road, and the vertical winding bridge
is created by Engels Street, which passes into the street. Gagarin,
which connect different parts of the city.
The northern region is
located on a relatively gentle terrain, is the location of the city
center. The city center is roughly limited by Engels streets and
Dzerzhinsky street, if you look at the radial roads diverging from the
mountain, the transverse ones - st. Chekhov and down approximately to
Pionerskaya street. Karl Marx Street from the central square down to
Roznina Street is pedestrian.
To the south of the center, there
is a unique phenomenon by Russian standards, a forested hill, Samarovsky
Chugas, which has the status of a protected natural area. There are also
small residential areas in the central part of the summit. Nevertheless,
the main thing here is a complex of sports facilities, which includes a
biathlon center and its infrastructure, the Yugra-Athletics arena and a
ski complex with the Khvoyny Urman funicular.
Finally, along the
embankment lie areas in the location of the historical settlement of
Samarovo. In addition to the naturally intertwined coastal
infrastructure, sports facilities located on the mountain are continued
by an ice arena and another arena, as well as an archeopark with bronze
figures of mammoths.
By plane
Khanty-Mansiysk Airport is located on the
northeastern outskirts of the city, the travel time by car from the city
center is 15-20 minutes. The fare for a taxi is about 170 rubles.
Airport (IATA:HMA).
By train
The nearest railway stations
(Pyt-Yakh or Demyanka of the Sverdlovsk railway) are located at a
distance of about 250 kilometers from the city.
By bus
Bus
station, st. Boris Shcherbina d.3. ✉ ☎ 8(3467)33-98-30.
On the
ship
The river port and pier on the Irtysh is located in the
historical location of Samarovo, a dozen and a half kilometers from the
confluence of the Irtysh with the Ob River. During the navigation
period, passenger ships provide communication between the city and the
cities of Berezovo, Tobolsk, Omsk, Salekhard, as well as with many
cities and towns of the district.
River station, st. Boris
Shcherbina, d.1. ☎ +7(3467)33-94-77.
There are seven city bus routes in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Taxi is widespread, the order is usually carried out by phone, it is
also possible to call through the Yandex.Taxi and AvtoLiga applications.
The tariff for the city is 100 rubles.
✦ Taxi "Caprice".
✦ Taxi
"NonStop".
Ethnographic Open Air Museum "Torum Maa", Sobyanin St., 1 (bus No. 16, 22). ☎ + (3467) 32-20-58. Torum Maa translated from the Khanty and Mansi languages means "sacred land". The museum introduces the life of the indigenous peoples of the North - Khanty and Mansi
In Khanty-Mansiysk, the only Park of Slavic Literature and Culture in
Russia and the world, Victory Park with the Alley of Heroes, Boris Losev
Park, Samarovsky Chugas Natural Park, 6 public libraries with a book
fund of about 300 thousand copies, 5 state museums (among them the
oldest the Okrug Museum - the Museum of Nature and Man, the open-air
museum "Torum Maa") and the art gallery of the Generations Fund with 352
thousand exhibits), the concert and theater center "Ugra-Classic" with a
hall for 1360 seats, a cinema for 200 seats and a film and video center
for 40 seats, two municipal club institutions (KDTs and "Orpheus" for
120 seats), the theater of the Ob-Ugric peoples and the puppet theater,
the center of culture and folk crafts, the Arts Center for gifted
children of the North with two concert halls for 800 and 120 seats,
cultural - leisure center for students for 67 places.
One of the
sights of Khanty-Mansiysk is the "Archeopark", located along Obyezdnaya
Street at the foot of the Samarovsky remnant. It was founded in 2007 and
became the largest open-air reconstruction of prehistoric times in
Russia[49]. The tallest of the mammoth bronze figures is 8 meters high
and was honored to be featured on a postage stamp issued by the Russian
Post.
cultural events
In 1993, the IV International Folklore
Festival of the Finno-Ugric peoples took place in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Since 2003, at the end of winter, the city traditionally hosts the
International Festival of Film Debuts "Spirit of Fire". Film director
Sergei Solovyov was the president and ideological inspirer of the
festival until his death in 2021. In 2022, Serbian director Emir
Kusturica has been appointed president of the festival.
From June
25 to June 30, 2008, Khanty-Mansiysk and Yugra Governor Alexander
Filipenko hosted the World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples and the V
International Festival of Finno-Ugric Peoples' Crafts "Ugra-2008". The
Congress was attended by 300 delegates from 11 countries, 350 observers,
officials, journalists from Russian and foreign media. The congress was
attended by the presidents of Finland Tarja Halonen, Hungary - Laszlo
Solyom and Estonia - Toomas Hendrik Ilves. Also present were the heads
of the republics of Karelia, Komi, Mari El, Mordovia, Udmurtia, the
leaders of the Perm and Krasnoyarsk Territories, Yamal.
Religion
Khanty-Mansiysk is the center of the Khanty-Mansiysk metropolis. There
are three temples: the Church of the Sign, the Church of the
Resurrection of Christ, the Church of the Intercession of the Most Holy
Theotokos
Coffee houses
Traveler's Coffee, Lenina st., 39.
Cheap
Pelmennaya.
Expensive
Divan-Saray Restaurant
Average cost
Mini-hotel "Gamma".
Hotel "On the seven hills".
Hotel "Olympic".
Expensive
Hotel complex "Misne".
Hotel
Crownwell Inn Ugra.
The village of Samarovo (Samarovskoye)
In written sources, the
place where Khanty-Mansiysk is now located is first mentioned in the
“Chronicle of the Siberian Short Kungur” as the town of Prince
Samara, which was the site of the battle between Samara and Yermak’s
squads in 1582.
In the late 1620s and early 1630s, the
coachman Samarovsky pit was founded (the future village of Samarovo,
now the region of Khanty-Mansiysk, where the river port and pier are
located). In 1675, Nikolai Gavrilovich Spafariy (a Moscow envoy who
was traveling with an embassy to China) became the first traveler to
visit Samarovo.
In 1708, Samarovo became part of the Siberian
province. On July 2, 1740, Professor Lill and his companion
Koenigsfeld established an observatory on the Samarovsky mountain
and made a number of observations. In 1748, the first census of the
Yamsk population of Russia was carried out. According to its
results, 487 coachmen lived in Samarovo. In the
administrative-postal language Samarovo was called Samarovsky pit, a
settlement of the Siberian province of the Tobolsk province, in the
Tobolsk discret on the eastern bank of the Irtysh.
In
1808-1816, a stone church of the Intercession of the Most Holy
Theotokos was built in Samarovo. On the maps of the late XIX - early
XX century, the settlement is signed as "Samarovskoye".
In
1930, the construction of a fish cannery began in Samarovo, a
fishing fleet and new fishing gear appeared.
The village of
Ostyako-Vogulsk
Name
On December 10, 1930, the decree of the
All-Russian Central Executive Committee “On the organization of
national associations in the areas of settlement of small peoples of
the North” was issued and the Ostyako-Vogulsky national district was
created. In 1931, construction began on a new capital of the
district, 5 km from Samarovo, which was named Ostyako-Vogulsk.
Different variants of the name were considered: Natsmen,
Khanty-Manchi Vosh, Ob-Irtyshsk, Taezhnik, Ovys-Stalin
(North-Stalin). The district newspaper "Khanty-Manchi Shop" in
December 1931 announced a competition for the best name, which
included options for "Vladitekhkult" ("Native, master technology and
culture!"), Novo-Seversk, Krasno-Seversk, Novo-Uralsk, Priobsk,
Severo-Stalin, Severo-Leninsk, Severo-Uralsk… Employees of the Okron
and Okrzdrav suggested the Khanty abbreviation “VILENvosh” (the city
of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin).
The first district congress of
councils of workers, peasants and Red Army deputies, held from
February 25 to March 3, 1932 in the House of the Native, adopted a
resolution on assigning the name Ostyako-Vogulsk to the district
center.
Early years of development
The settlement
subsequently became the administrative center of the
Ostyako-Vogulsky National District. Between the historical village
of Samarovo, 12 km from the mouth of the Irtysh, and
Ostyako-Vogulsky, there was a hill of the Samarovsky chugas.
Construction of the village
On the site of the future village in
the taiga, clearings for future 11 streets were outlined. Among the
continuous taiga and impenetrable swamps, they went to work along
paths and passages with an indication of which object they led to.
The sites of planned objects were marked with picket poles, each
object was built on the basis of ready-made project documentation.
In 1931, to the banks of the Irtysh, from the source of the
Nevlevka to the Korovya Laida itself, seven dams of the forest were
floated. On the roll-out of logs on the shore, which was led by
foreman Mikhail Popov, several teams worked, distributed by 10-12
people. Tens of thousands of cubic meters of timber for July,
August, September were stockpiled and brought into exemplary order.
Construction in the future city was carried out by four
construction sites: Uralles, Severstroy, Integralsoyuz and
Uralpushnina. The construction site of Severostroy, under the
leadership of engineer Paivin and foreman Gornostalev, was built by
the District Executive Committee, the House of the Native (House of
Culture). The work was attended by special settlers from Ukraine,
the Volga region, the Urals and even the southern regions of
Siberia, of which 37,400 arrived in the Ostyako-Vogulsky district in
1930-1932: 11,200 people were sent to the fishing industry, 11,400
to the system of integral cooperation, the rest to logging and
construction .
The native's house was ready for the
anniversary of October, in 1931. The builders walked to the solemn
meeting along the paths through the continuous forest, carried
benches, 4 tables, a podium for speakers to speak.
Severstroy
then erected residential one-story houses on both sides of Komintern
Street, from Komsomolskaya Street to Pushkin Street, and the city
executive committee. In the house closest to the city executive
committee, a room was set aside for a first-aid post, Ivan
Georgievich Vakorin worked as a paramedic. Then the construction of
the police building, the editorial office of the newspaper, the
savings bank, the state bank and two-story residential buildings
along Lenin and Komsomolskaya streets, schools No. 1 and No. 3, and
a teacher training school began.
Integralsoyuz and
Uralpushnina initially built one-story residential buildings on both
sides of Komintern Street, from Krasnaya Street to Pionerskaya
Street. The Okrug Integral Union at the end of the summer of 1931
began to assemble a two-story house and an office of the
Okrintegralsoyuz on the street. Mira No. 8, and then - residential
two-story houses at the beginning of Komsomolskaya Street, opposite
the bookstore and the city executive committee. Uralpushnina started
her two-story office on Krasnaya Street No. 36 and residential
buildings on Krasnaya and Obskaya streets. Subsequently, the
Uralpushnina office was given over to school No. 6.
In 1932,
a new replenishment arrived: more than a thousand workers, and the
construction of the village intensified.
The construction
site of Uralles was headed by engineer Alexander Ivanovich Porsapin
and foreman Ignatiy Fedorovich Legotin. Each of the qualified
masters of carpentry and carpentry (Ivan Dmitrievich Kashigin,
Mosievsky, Grigory Sheshikov, Andrey Nikolaevich Bulatov, Alexander
Andreevich Ptitsin, Fedor Nesterov) prepared 4-5 apprentices with
full mastery of carpentry: turn over, hew wood "under the bracket"
and chop the walls of the building with a set precision.
On
January 1, 1932, the brigade of I.F. Legotina handed over the first
residential building No. 19 on K. Marx Street, by May 1, 1932 - the
timber industry office on Karl Marx Street No. 17, and then three
barrack-type dormitories for workers, a two-apartment residential
building for managers. They built a bathhouse and a forge between
school No. 3 and school No. 1.
A timber industry enterprise
began work in the village, an elementary school, a hospital, a post
office and a radiotelegraph were built.
Then the production
capacities of the Samarovsky fish cannery, etc. were introduced and
mastered.
Forces of special settlers were uprooting the taiga
to expand the sown area: if in 1929 they amounted to 544 hectares,
then in 1931 - 1127 hectares, and in 1932 - already 4119.6 hectares.
Special settlers formed 55.5% of the labor force in agriculture in
the Ostyako-Vogulsky district. They began to grow potatoes and
crops, which until that time had been imported and were in short
supply.
In 1931, the first public building in the district
was put into operation - the House of the Native (House of the
Peoples of the North, later the House of Folk Art). The culture of
the peoples of the Khanty and Mansi was supposed to be carried by
the Red Plagues, cultural bases, reading rooms.
In 1932, the
construction of the regional library was completed.
On
November 1, 1932, the Ostyako-Vogulsky outpatient clinic was
established and the construction of the hospital began. At first,
the hospital was located in two buildings and had 35 beds for
surgical and therapeutic patients, beds for women in labor and beds
for a typhoid barrack. By 1939 it had 75 beds.
In 1934, the
first power plant was launched: a locomobile with a capacity of 37
horsepower supplied electricity for lighting and running water
pipes.
In 1934, the first sound cinema was opened on the main
square of the village. Tuberculosis dispensary, X-ray and 2 dental
offices, a brick factory were opened.
In 1935, the city
square was laid (now - Victory Park).
In 1935-1936,
Ostyako-Vogulsk received the status of an urban-type settlement. The
village council was transformed into a village council. The
Khanty-Mansiysk Pedagogical College, a medical school, a trade and
cooperative school with dormitories and canteens for training local
residents in the necessary professions, vocational schools for
training workers were founded in the city.
In 1936 the local
history museum was opened.
In 1937 Ostyako-Vogulsk and
Samarovo were connected by a highway. At the intersection of
Komsomolskaya and Dzerzhinsky streets, the first brick building of
the power plant appeared, telephone installation began (switchboard
for 300 numbers).
The
Tyumen-Tobolsk-Samarovo-Berezovo-Salekhard airline was opened.
In 1938, the population of Ostyako-Vogulsk was 7.5 thousand
inhabitants.
On October 23, 1940, the administrative center
of the district was renamed Khanty-Mansiysk, and the district was
renamed the Khanty-Mansiysk National District; in the name of the
city and the district, two self-names of indigenous peoples were
used - Khanty and Mansi.
At the beginning of 1945, the
district hospital expanded to 116 beds and began to receive acute
patients from all over the district, for which purpose an air
ambulance department was opened in 1947.
A department of
culture has been set up in the executive committee of the District
Council of Working People's Deputies.
In 1950, the village of Khanty-Mansiysk received the status of a
city, the village of Samarovo became part of it.
In 1950, a
mineral water deposit was discovered in Khanty-Mansiysk, and three
years later, a stone building of the Khanty-Mansiysk hydropathic
clinic was built in the Stream Valley.
In 1953, the District
House of the Peoples of the North was transformed into the
Khanty-Mansiysk City House of Culture. In 1957, the Khanty-Mansiysk
Okrug House of Folk Art was created under the Department of Culture
of the Okrug Executive Committee, and in rural areas the
organization of rural clubs began, at enterprises and organizations
- trade union clubs.
The life of the city was dramatically
changed by the discovery of Tyumen oil. In Khanty-Mansiysk, the
development of oil fields was coordinated and new cities were
planned in the north, which quickly overtook the capital in size and
amenities.
The era of Tyumen oil
During the exploration of
Tyumen oil, Khanty-Mansiysk became one of the bases for geologists:
the Geophysical Trust and the Khantymansiyskneftegazgeologiya
association worked here.
In 1967, a television center and a
district television studio began work. The construction of brick
houses began in the city.
On June 4, 1972, the title
"Honorary Citizen of Khanty-Mansiysk" was established.
In
1977, the Palace of Culture "October" for 600 places and a new
secondary school for 964 students were put into operation. The first
five-story building of prefabricated reinforced concrete, the
building of the State Bank, and a shopping center were built.
A large-scale improvement of the city began: an enterprise of
combined boiler houses and heating networks, a city repair and
construction department were created, a power line was laid from the
Surgutskaya state district power station to provide a reliable power
supply to the city, and the laying of a city water supply system
began. At the Lengiprogor Institute, on the initiative of the First
Secretary of the CPSU City Committee V. I. Rybkin, a master plan for
the development of the city with high-rise buildings was ordered.
Own asphalt plant was built.
Center of the subject of the
Russian Federation
In 1991, the President of the RSFSR B.N.
Yeltsin visited Khanty-Mansiysk, who then proclaimed his slogan
"Take sovereignty as much as you want." A movement is beginning to
move the center of decision-making on the development of regions and
the distribution of income from oil and gas production from the
regional center - Tyumen - to the localities.
In 1993, the
Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug becomes a subject of the Russian Federation,
gaining the right to independently form its own budget.
On
March 28, 1995, the District Duma adopted a law on the status of the
city of Khanty-Mansiysk as the capital of a constituent entity of
the Russian Federation.
Until the 1990s, Khanty-Mansiysk
consisted mainly of two-story wooden houses, about half of which
were equipped with partial or complete communal amenities (central
heating, water supply, sewerage). Areas of private development did
not have amenities; the city has preserved multi-apartment dormitory
barracks built back in the 1930s. The population was about 30
thousand inhabitants. In the 2000s, the city, as the center of the
largest Russian oil and gas region, developed rapidly, its
population more than tripled. New modern, fully landscaped
residential areas of brick and concrete houses, wide roads with
convenient interchanges have been built. The city has many modern
medical facilities and multidisciplinary sports centers (both for
adults and children), a rich cultural life and a variety of
educational opportunities, including at Yugra State University.
On September 11, 2004, celebrations were held in Khanty-Mansiysk
to mark the extraction of 8 billion tons of oil in the district.
In December 2005, at the presentation of the book “From the time
of Prince Samara”, it was proposed to start the history of
Khanty-Mansiysk from the period of mention of Samarovo, and not from
the date of foundation of Ostyako-Vogulsk.
In June 2008, in
Khanty-Mansiysk, on the initiative of Russian President Dmitry
Medvedev, the 21st Russia-EU Summit was held, which was attended by
President of the European Commission Jose Barroso, Secretary General
of the Council of the EU Javier Solana.
In 2018, the city
became the main venue for the celebration of the Anniversary of the
Territory: 900: Centuries-old Yugra.
In the 16th century, near the current location of the city, the Russian village of Samarovo was founded, named after the Ostyak prince Samara. Near this village, in 1931, the settlement of Ostyako-Vogulsk was founded as the administrative center of the Ostyako-Vogulsky National District. After clarifying the ethnic names of the peoples of the North, the Ostyaks began to be called Khanty, and the Voguls - Mansi, in connection with which in 1940 the village was renamed Khanty-Mansiysk. In 1950, the city of Khanty-Mansiysk was formed from the settlement and village of Samarovo.
Khanty-Mansiysk is located on the territory of the West Siberian Plain, on the right bank of the Irtysh River, 20 kilometers from the place where the Irtysh flows into the Ob River; in the natural zone of the taiga. One of two cities in Russia (along with Ivanovo) located at the point of confluence - the place where integer parallels and meridians intersect (without minutes and seconds). Coordinates - 61 ° with. sh. 69° E e. From the end of May to mid-July, in cities of this latitude one can observe such a phenomenon as white nights.
Khanty-Mansiysk is in the MSK+2 time zone. The offset of the applicable time from UTC is +5:00. According to the applied time and geographic longitude, the average solar noon in Khanty-Mansiysk occurs at 12:29.
Khanty-Mansiysk belongs to the continental climate zone.
Continental air of temperate latitudes dominates here throughout the
year. In summer, the meridional circulation intensifies, as a result
of which both arctic and tropical air enters the territory. With the
western transport, Atlantic air enters here, largely transformed.
Khanty-Mansiysk is equated with the regions of the Far North.
The average annual temperature is -0.8 °C
The average annual
wind speed is 2.4 m/s
Average annual air humidity - 77%
The volume of shipped industrial goods by large and medium-sized
enterprises of the city for 2018 amounted to 14,698.9 million rubles.
The production of the main types of industrial products by large
enterprises of the city in physical terms was characterized by the
following rates:
production of bread and bakery products - 3695.8
tons;
production of fish products - 817.3 tons;
production of
semi-finished meat products - 772.9 tons.
In 2017, the volume of
investments in fixed assets for large and medium-sized enterprises
amounted to 15,221,210 thousand rubles.
As of January 1, 2019,
there are more than 2,000 organizations and enterprises in the city. The
largest: LLC Gazpromneft-Khantos, LLC Verso-Monolit, NJSC AKI-Otyr, JSC
SK VNSS, BerezkaGaz Holding, JSC YURESK, JSC Yugorsky Timber Holding,
JSC Severrechflot ”, OJSC “Khantymansiysk ATP”, JSC GC “Severavtodor”.
Trade and public catering is one of the important sectors of the
economy of Khanty-Mansiysk. In total, the city has 16 trading houses and
centers, 385 shops of various specializations, 62 shopping pavilions, 18
kiosks, 1 mixed market for the sale of food and industrial goods, 20
restaurants, 66 cafes and bars, 32 canteens, 25 buffets and eateries.
In recent years, credit, financial and banking activities have
received significant development. The city has branches and branches of
such Russian banks as VTB 24, Gazprombank, Zapsibkombank, Let's Go!
Bank, Sberbank of Russia, PJSC Bank FC Otkritie, Home Credit Bank and
SKB-Bank, Rosselkhozbank. The state insurance company Yugoria also
operates.
In 1971, a new airport runway was built, which is still in use today
(reconstructed and extended from 1400 m to 2500 m in 1997). In 2002, the
construction of a new terminal was completed. In 2004, Khanty-Mansiysk
Airport received international status.
In 1996, the construction
of a federal highway was completed, which connected Khanty-Mansiysk with
other large cities of the Tyumen region (Surgut, Nefteyugansk, Tyumen).
In 2004, the construction of an automobile bridge across the Irtysh was
completed, thanks to which the city received reliable communication with
Nyagan and other cities in the western part of the Khanty-Mansiysk
Autonomous Okrug - Yugra. In 2010, a road was opened through the village
of Gornopravdinsk, which reduced the distance to Tyumen by 270
kilometers.
In 2013, the Ivdel-Yugorsk-Khanty-Mansiysk or
Ural-Yugra road, which is part of the Northern Latitudinal Corridor, was
put into operation. It can be used directly, bypassing Tyumen and
Yekaterinburg, to get from Khanty-Mansiysk to Ivdel, Serov and Perm.
The pier on the Irtysh River is located 12-16 km from its confluence
with the Ob River. Passenger ships provide communication between the
city and many cities and towns of the district, as well as with Tobolsk,
Omsk and Salekhard.
The nearest railway stations are: Pyt-Yakh,
248 kilometers from Khanty-Mansiysk and Demyanka, in the village of the
same name in the Tyumen Region, 238 km from Khanty-Mansiysk.
The
bus network of Khanty-Mansiysk is represented by 7 city and 1 suburban
bus routes.
Khanty-Mansiysk is a world-class skiing center. Since the beginning
of the 2000s, a biathlon center has been operating here, where in 2000,
2005 and from 2007 to 2016 (except 2014) the stages of the Biathlon
World Cup were held. In 2002, 2004, 2006 - Grand Prix of the
International Biathlon Union.
In 2003, the city hosted the 38th
Biathlon World Championship, and from 3 to 13 March 2011 - the 46th
World Championship. In 2005 and 2010, world championships were held in a
separate discipline - the mixed relay. Also in 2001, Khanty-Mansiysk
hosted the Junior Biathlon World Championship. In 2000 - the world
championship in summer biathlon.
International cross-country
skiing competitions were held. In April 2008, the final stage of the
Grand Prix Sprint Tour 2008 took place. In 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2019,
competitions for the World Cup among men in chess were held in
Khanty-Mansiysk.
In March 2006, the Governor, Chairman of the
Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Alexander Filipenko
and the President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpischev
installed a symbolic stone in the foundation of the Ugra Tennis Academy.
It was built in a year with several courts and stands for 3,500 seats.
In July 2006, the city hosted the First Summer Spartakiad of the
Youth of Russia with the participation of 73 regions, 207 teams, 2570
boys and girls who competed in 24 sports.
In September 2010, the
Ugra Chess Academy was opened, built according to the original design of
the Dutch architect Erik van Egerat. In the first days of its existence,
the 39th World Chess Olympiad, the Assembly and the 81st FIDE Congress,
the Women's World Chess Championship were held here.
In
Khanty-Mansiysk there is a hockey club "Ugra", which represents the city
in the Major Hockey League.
Winter Deaflympics 2015 were held in
Khanty-Mansiysk.
Since 2013, the Yugra Ski Marathon has been held
annually, gathering thousands of participants.