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Nadym is a city in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Russia,
the administrative center of the Nadym region.
The city of
Nadym was formed with the status of an urban settlement as the only
settlement in its composition. In 2020, the settlement was abolished
due to the transformation of the municipal district into a municipal
district.
The city is located on the left bank of the Nadym
River, 290 km from Salekhard.
It is mentioned at the beginning of the 20th century
as a trading place on the right bank of the Nadym River. Now it is
the working village of Old Nadym (formerly Nadym Yurts), and the
city that grew up on the left bank of Nadym received the name Nadym
in 1972. The etymology of the hydronym Nadym remains not fully
established. According to one version, it comes from the Nenets
Nadi-Yam - "abundant place", but in the Nenets language the river is
called Nyati-Yam - "the river of nyati". At the level of folk
etymology - "reindeer river".
There is another version of the
origin of the city's name. From the old Russian word "nadym", which
means "snowdrift" (this name is more likely, because the word
"nadym" is not in the Nenets language, but it is in colloquial
Russian. From the words: "smoke", "smoked").
The
city is mentioned at the end of the 16th century. On Russian maps,
the word "nadym" has been found since the end of the 17th century,
and the Nadym River was noted in the "Drawing Book of Siberia" by
S.U. Remezov, published at the turn of the 17th-18th centuries. On
the map of the Tobolsk province in 1802, Nadym is marked as a
significant settlement on the left bank of the lower reaches of the
Nadym River. Today this place, located 32 kilometers from the mouth,
is called the Nadym settlement.
In 1929, a reindeer-breeding
state farm "Nadym" was established, a settlement appeared on the
right bank of the Nadym river. However, in 1934 the state farm was
disbanded and turned into a trading post.
In August 1952,
working train traffic was opened from Salekhard to Nadym, including
passenger traffic, within the framework of the Chum - Salekhard -
Igarka railway being built in 1947-53 by the forces of the USSR
Ministry of Internal Affairs GULZHDS. After Stalin's death, the
railway was abandoned.
In the fall of 1966, the barracks
settlement was chosen as a support base for the development of the
Medvezhye gas field. The village, surrounded by numerous lakes, was
located on a dry, elevated place, which made it possible to build an
airstrip for air transport. The relatively small 12-kilometer
distance to the Nadym River, which gave the village its name, also
served as one of the arguments in its favor. In 1950-1960s the
settlement was called Novy Nadym.
In parallel with the
accelerated pace of development of Medvezhye, gas workers were
creating a city that was destined to become a social and cultural
center of the Tyumen North. In August 1971, a solemn ceremony of
laying the first capital building took place in Nadym, and on March
9, 1972, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the
RSFSR, the working settlement of Nadym received the status of a city
of district subordination.
average annual air
temperature: −6.6 ° C;
relative air humidity: 75.2%;
average
wind speed: 10.1 m / s;
absolute minimum: -57.7 ° C;
absolute
maximum: +34.7 ° C;
Bus routes:
No. 2 Airport
-> pos. Forest;
No. 3 Bus station -> pos. Right-bank;
No. 4
Finnish settlement -> microdistrict. Olympic;
No. 5 Pos. Forest
-> microdistrict. Olympic;
No. 6 st. Ryzhkov—> administration.
Nadym airport.
The city has 9 comprehensive schools, a gymnasium, a college, and two art schools.
The Transpolar highway between Novy Urengoy and
Salekhard passes through Nadym, closed and inactive, also called the
"Dead Road". Once, perhaps, the planned bridge across the Ob between
Salekhard and Labytnangi was not built. The road being restored now,
for the most part, will pass along the old "Stalinist" embankment.
The bridge over the Nadym River was opened in September 2015. It is
also planned to build a bridge across the Ob River. A highway will
run parallel to the railway.
On December 9, 2020, the
Nadym-Salekhard highway was inaugurated. A railway is being built in
the same direction.
According to documents published by
Wikileaks, the Nadym gas pipeline hub was named by American
diplomats as "the most critical gas facility in the world."
According to the 2020 All-Russian Population Census, as of October 1,
2021, in terms of population, the city was in 336th place out of 1,119
cities in the Russian Federation.
Nadym is the fourth largest
city in the YaNAO after Novy Urengoy (107,251), Noyabrsk (100,188) and
Salekhard (48,619) in terms of population. The city is home to 68.68% of
the population of the Nadymsky district.
Russians, Ukrainians, Tatars, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Bashkirs, Kazakhs.
The city-forming enterprise is Gazprom dobycha Nadym, which accounts
for about 11% of gas produced in Russia. Also, the largest independent
gas producer Novatek operates in the city (Yurkharovskoye and
Yarudeyskoye fields).
Major construction companies are
Arktikneftegazstroy, Severgazstroy, Nadymstroygazdobycha.
A
branch of the oil and gas production department RITEK Beloyarsky (a
subsidiary of RITEK) is based in Nadym, which is developing the
Sandibinskoye and Sredne-Khulymskoye oil fields.
Nadym is the owner of many prestigious and honorary awards.
In
2001, the city received a diploma of the Government of the Russian
Federation III degree in the All-Russian competition for the title "The
most comfortable city in Russia among small towns." In 2002, it was
recognized as the "Most comfortable city in Russia" for good work in the
development of the urban economy. Also, Nadym is a holder of a
certificate in the nomination "The Best City of the Russian Federation
in terms of economic indicators of financial development in 2003" in the
category of small towns of the All-Russian competition "Golden Ruble" in
the Urals Federal District.