Noyabrsk, Russia

Noyabrsk

Noyabrsk is the largest city in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located in the center of the West Siberian oil fields, on the Tyumen-Novy Urengoy railway, about 300 kilometers north of Surgut. Population: 110 620 people.

 

Sights of Noyabrsk

Mosquito Monument.
Monument to polar bears (near the railway station Noyabrsk-2).

 

How to get there

By plane
Arrival in Noyabrsk is possible by air. UTair airline flies from Moscow to Noyabrsk. On average 2 flights per day. The airport is located near the city. A taxi ride from the airport to the center costs around 250 rubles. as of July 2014.

Noyabrsk Airport.

By train
There are two railway stations in the city. Noyabrsk-1 and Noyabrsk-2. It is most convenient to depart from Noyabrsk-2, adjacent to the residential area. Quite a lot of trains passing north and south.

 

Etymology

The name of the city comes from the name of the month of November, since the first landing of railway builders arrived at the site of the future city in early November 1976, shortly before the anniversary of the October Revolution. They also wanted to name the settlement by one of the nearby lakes - Khanto, however, "socialist thinking" still prevailed.

 

Climate

Noyabrsk is located in the zone of moderate continental climate (according to Alisov's classification) or in the Dfc zone according to Köppen. The number of sunny days in Noyabrsk ranges from 230-250 days, and the total amount of precipitation does not exceed 650 mm per year.

Winters are long frosty with cold winds, usually from mid-October to mid-April. The coldest month is January. February is the driest month, but snowstorms are typical for it.

Spring is cold and short, usually from mid-April to early June.

Summers are warm and short, often in June and July the air can warm up to +30 ° C. The warmest month is July. Rainy weather is typical for August. Summer, as a rule, lasts until the end of August, but often in the first days of September there is an "Indian summer".

Autumn is cold and fleeting. Leaf fall usually ends by the end of September, and by mid-October snow cover is established and freeze-up is observed.

 

Vegetation

The flora of the city and surrounding areas is characterized by pines, spruce, larch, birch, aspen, willow, taiga herbs, berries.

Noyabrsk is quite well landscaped. The city has a Children's Park, the forest of which stands out strongly from the surrounding urban landscape.

 

Animal world

The fauna of the city is characterized by squirrels (common and chipmunks) living in the Children's Park, birds: sparrows, woodpeckers (sharp-winged and variegated), ravens, gray crows, magpies, walnuts, nuthatches, pigeons, small rodents (gray, red and red-gray voles). You can often find tits, waxwings, bullfinches, in summer you can often see chaleys, herring gulls, white wagtails, and owls. Sometimes you can see snowy and short-eared owls, polar sparrows, cuckoos, partridges.

Near the city, people often meet with brown bears, foxes, wolves, arctic foxes, deer, elks, vipers.

 

Ecology

The ecological situation in the city itself is acceptable, but the state of Lake Hanto is of serious concern.

The ecological state of the surrounding territories is constantly changing: household waste accumulates in the forests, oil and gas enterprises affect the state of the atmosphere and forests, but efforts are being made to improve the ecological situation.

 

History

The emergence of the village
The emergence of the settlement is associated with the development of oil and gas fields in the south of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the north of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. Exploration drilling in the November region began back in 1968, when the Vyngapurovskoye and Vyngayakhinskoye fields were discovered. In 1973, the Kholmogorskoye field was explored, however, due to the lack of access roads until the end of 1975, drilling on it was temporarily stopped. In 1975, the Karamovskoye and Sutorminskoye fields were discovered, and in 1976 - the New Year. In March 1975, the first helicopter assault landed on the ice of the Ituyakha River to begin industrial development of the Kholmogorskoye field, and on November 5, 1975, at a temperature of -52 ° C degrees, a gush of waterless oil was obtained at the first production well No. 403, this day is considered the date foundation of the future city.

In January 1976, the settlement of Noyabrsky was marked on the maps of the designers, and in November of the same year, a labor force of the mechanized column No. 15 of the Uralstroymekhanizatsiya trust arrived at the site of the future settlement from Ult-Yagun. The construction of the Noyabrskaya railway station, located on the 204th km of the projected Surgut-Urengoy line, an airfield and a station settlement, was launched. The station settlement Noyabrsky and the Noyabrsky village council were registered by the Tyumen regional executive committee on October 26, 1977. In the same year, the formation of the village infrastructure began: the Council of People's Deputies was formed, the first school was opened. In August 1977, the population of the village was 1523 people. At the beginning of 1978, there were eight streets in Noyabrskoye, a post office, a first-aid post, and two shops worked. On May 20, 1978, the first train from Kogalym arrived at the Noyabrskaya station. At the end of 1978, the operation of the Vyngapurovsky gas field began and the runway near the station settlement was put into operation. Air traffic connected Noyabrsky with Surgut and Tarko-Sale. However, on August 30, 1978, the Tyumen Regional Executive Committee decided to postpone the construction of the future city to the Hanto junction area on the 213 km of the Surgut-Urengoy railway. In 1979, traffic was opened on the Surgut - Pelei section.

 

In 1979, Noyabrsky was renamed Noyabrsk in connection with obtaining the status of a working village, in the same year the first outpatient clinic and the first music school began to work. Improvement of the village and infrastructure development continued. At the beginning of 1981, the first major five-story residential building was built, at the base of the foundation of which was laid a capsule with a message to the Komsomol of the XXI century, by the end of the year there were already more than 40 thousand square meters of housing in the village, including 5 capital five-storey residential buildings. The population of the village at the end of 1981 was more than 23 thousand people.

Formation of the city
On April 28, 1982, by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, the working village of Noyabrsk, Purovsky district, was transformed into the city of Noyabrsk of district subordination, in the same year the city department of public education was formed and the first cultural center "Dnepr" was opened. On January 1, 1983, the first issue of the city newspaper "Severnaya Vakhta" was published. On November 3, 1983, the An-24 aircraft from Surgut made its first passenger flight to the new airport of Noyabrsk. On January 6, 1984, the first issue of the newspaper "Slovo neftynika" was published, and on April 24, the Museum of Labor Glory was opened. The population by the end of the year was more than 55 thousand people. On May 9, 1985, a memorial to the Great Patriotic War was opened in a solemn atmosphere, in the same year the first greenhouse was built and a wedding salon was opened. In 1985, oil production in the November region amounted to 15 942 thousand tons. In 1986, gas workers in November produced a billion blue fuel. In April 1987, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of Noyabrsk's city status, the City Day was celebrated for the first time. In 1988, a second music school was opened in the city. On January 31, 1989, the first private enterprise was established - the Agoy brewery, and on March 22 the first coat of arms of the city was approved. In 1989, Noyabrskneftegaz produced a record 41,170 thousand tons of oil. In January 1990, the Ozerny sanatorium-preventorium was opened on the bank of the Khanto, and on September 5, the November Oil Technical School was organized. In the spring of 1991, a site was chosen for the construction of the Temple of the Archangel of God Michael, and on August 6-7 of the same year, President of the RSFSR Boris N. Yeltsin visited Noyabrsk.

Modernity
On June 23-24, 1992, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Government V.S.Chernomyrdin visited Noyabrsk. On April 28, 1991, the November Information Agency "Mig" was created. On March 30, 1997, the first meeting of the November City Duma was held, in the same year the Children's Park was opened.

On December 16, 2004, the Vyngapurovsky settlement was included in the city.

On September 2, 2012, in honor of the City Day and the Day of Oil and Gas Industry Workers, a show of the aerobatic team "Russian Knights" took place in the skies over Noyabrsk. On February 28, 2014, the city hosted the 2014 Winter Paralympic Torch Relay.