Kharp (from Nenets - "northern lights") is an urban-type
settlement in the Priuralsky region of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous
District of Russia.
Forms the municipal formation Kharp
settlement with the status of an urban settlement as the only
settlement in its structure. The head of the administration of the
urban settlement is Artur Vladimirovich Cheban.
Population -
5850 people. (2020).
The settlement is located in the spurs of the Polar Urals, on the Sob River, located at the 67th parallel, 60 km north of the Arctic Circle, 30 km from the town of Labytnangi. Railway station Kharp-Northern Lights. The area of the village is 930 hectares. The nearest mountain ranges: Chernaya, Kudryavaya, Rai-Iz.
The settlement began with the creation of the Podgornaya railway station, which consisted of several houses of railway workers. By the decision of the Tyumen Regional Council of Working People's Deputies No. 54 of January 24, 1968, the Podgornaya station was transformed into the rural settlement of Kharp, and in December 1971, by the decision of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the Kharp Village Council was formed. In 1981, Kharp became a workers' village, and the village council was reorganized into the Kharp village council (since 1992 - the Kharp village administration). In 1997, the settlement was subordinated to the city of Labytnangi. By the law of November 24, 2004, the municipal formation of the village of Kharp was formed with the status of an urban settlement within the Priuralsky district.
Most of the believing residents of the village of Harp profess Christianity. The following Christian organizations are present on the territory of the village: the Orthodox parish of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos (ROC MP, Salekhard and Novy Urengoy diocese), the community of evangelical Christians "Good News" and the community of Christians of the Evangelical Faith. There is also a Muslim community.
Automobile communication with Labytnangi. There is a railway station in the village. Daily train service Moscow - Labytnangi, Labytnangi - Vorkuta. The Salekhard airport is 54 kilometers away, the river port of Labytnangi is 40 kilometers away. The village has a secondary school, a junior school, an art school, 2 preschool institutions, 2 hospitals, a dispensary, 2 pharmacies, 5 sports facilities, 2 club-type institutions.
Chromites mined by OJSC "Kongor-Khrom" in the mountain range of the
Polar Urals Rayiz (Ray-Iz) are brought by trucks to Kharp and loaded
onto wagons at the railway station.
Since 2010, a 12 MW thermal power
plant has been operated in the village, the main equipment of which is 4
Jenbacher gas piston units.
In 2016, it is planned to put into
operation a new fish breeding plant in the village, built by the
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Novatek. It is expected that the
enterprise will annually release up to 100 million muksun, peled and
whitefish fry into the Yamal rivers.
Children's Art School
Cultural and sports center
Sports and recreation complex "Nephrite"
In the colony FKU IK-3, located in the center of the village (Gagarin
St., 1A), until December 2006, Platon Lebedev served a sentence of 8
years in prison.
The village is also home to Institution FKU
IK-18 "Polar Owl" (special regime colony) - one of the seven colonies
for those sentenced to life imprisonment in Russia, known for its strict
regime of detention. Such criminals as Nurpasha Kulaev, the only
surviving terrorist from a gang that seized a school in Beslan on
September 1, 2004, are serving their sentences in the Polar Owl;
Alexander Pichushkin, a serial killer known as the "Bitsevsky Maniac";
former police major Denis Evsyukov, who worked as the head of the
Tsaritsyno police department in Moscow before the massacre; Sergei
Butorin, crime boss and leader of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal
group; Sergei Pomazun, a mass murderer known as the "Belgorod Shooter".