Muravlenko, Russia

Muravlenko

Muravlenko is a city (since 1990) in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Russia. Population - 31,561 people. (2020).

 

Etymology

Founded in 1984 as a settlement for oil workers Muravlenkovsky. There was a lot of controversy over the name of the future city. Some proposed to call it "Nefteozersk", others - "Trehozerny", but ultimately the village was named after the oil engineer, the first head of "Glavtyumenneftegaz" V. I. Muravlenko. Since 1990 - the city of Muravlenko.

 

History

The city of Muravlenko owes its birth to the industrial development of the Muravlenkovo ​​group of oil fields, the first of which was the Sutorminskoye discovery, one of the largest in Western Siberia. Exploration well R-31, drilled on August 30, 1975, heralded a new stage in the life of this land with a fountain of waterless oil.

The site for the building of the then unnamed settlement was allocated by the order of the Tyumen Regional Executive Committee in November 1980, and the general construction plan was approved in early April 1982.

The first customer for the construction of Muravlenko was the Kholmogorneft oil and gas production department. This construction was not envisaged by the five-year plan, which means there was no funding either. But MK Mikhailov, manager of the Noyabrskneftestroy - NNS trust-site, convinced the general director of the Noyabrskneftegaz association VA Gorodilov to start construction at his own expense - fortunately there were funds for housing construction. In the summer of 1982, the builders went to Muravlenko. There were no roads as such, only broken "winter roads" left over from geologists. From Noyabrsk, they usually took 12 hours to get to the Urals. 5 of them went to the Karamovsky crossroads, for which it was necessary to ford five small rivers. From the turn in the direction of Muravlenko, the road was paved by the builders of the Ukrtyumendorstroy trust: the road workers worked very quickly and efficiently, building the road in sections. But that was a little later, and then, as SB Safiullin, deputy manager of the NNS trust for general issues, said, “having crossed the pipes across the Pyaku-Pur river - the construction of the bridge began only in winter - we arrived at the site of the future city. The first brigade consisted of five woodcutters, the last name of one of them was Volkodav. The first head of the site was Vladimir Ivanovich Guzenkov. Scanty taiga stretched all around, there were no clearings yet. We unloaded a 30 kW power plant and two trailers. "

The first head of NGDU "Sutorminskneft" FM Sharifullin measured the distance from the lake near the sports complex to the site where shop No. 36 is now located, and determined the place for the first two-family houses - Talitsk "pieces of wood": they are there to this day day stand. The first houses were generally built from what they could get.

A significant part of the history of the city of Muravlenko is associated with the history of the Sutorminskneft oil and gas production department, which was formed by order of the USSR Oil Industry Minister in April 1982 in order to ensure the accelerated commissioning of the Sutorminskoye and Muravlenkovskoye fields. Created in October of the same year, SMU NGDU "SN" under the leadership of IB Manevich, along with the trust-site "NNS" was engaged in the construction of the village, but in large volumes. The first construction troops of the Directorate landed in the "remote corner of the taiga" on October 19. It included six - foreman M. A. Markov, carpenters R. Garifullin, A. Lomovtsev, V. Primak, V. Kokitko, R. Idrisov. Together with them, Kh. G. Nuriev arrived, on whose shoulders lay the power supply of the settlement. The builders lived in two trailers. From November 4, prefabricated structures of houses, dormitories, equipment began to arrive continuously. What is remarkable, the first houses were not built on piles, as expected, but on logs treated with a mixture of diesel fuel and tar - there were simply no piles. “Soon the second team of builders arrived, and we greeted 1983 with a team of eight people,” recalled M. A. Markov. “By the spring, three Yugoslavian hostels were commissioned.”

Oil specialists began to come from many regions of the Soviet Union and those who wanted to change their measured lifestyle for hectic shifts at drilling rigs and pumping chairs, or even start anew in life. By the beginning of 1984, 1,600 people were already living in the village. A canteen for 40 seats, a shop, a medical outpatient clinic, an automatic telephone exchange for 200 numbers, and a television set of the "Screen" type were built. In the same year, 33,834 m² of wooden housing, a laundry bath and a number of other facilities were commissioned. Since 1987, the names of the streets of the village of Muravlenkovsky have appeared - Lenin, 70 years of October, Pionerskaya, Novoselov lane and others. The Village Council of People's Deputies decided to approve public transport routes: two buses began to run on two routes. And the first intercity route - to neighboring Noyabrsk - was opened in April 1985.

 

In 1990, another significant event took place in the history of Muravlenko - by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the village of Muravlenkovsky became a city of district subordination. The document was signed by the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Boris N. Yeltsin.

Over the past decade, the population has been growing much more slowly: if at the beginning of 1992 there were 27.5 thousand people living in the city, then on 01.01.1995 - 34.2 thousand, and on 01.01.1999 - 36.9 thousand inhabitants. Currently, a little more than 37 thousand people permanently live in the city, as well as over 4 thousand - with a residence permit and shift workers.