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Novy Urengoy is a city in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Population: 104 107 people. It is the second largest city in the Autonomous Okrug after Noyabrsk.
Novy Urengoy emerged as a city of gas workers near the Urengoy gas field, named after the village of Urengoy, located 75 kilometers east of Novy Urengoy. The toponym “Urengoy” is explained from the Nenets language as “ dense”.
Art Museum, st. Molodezhnaya, 17. The only art museum in the Yamalo-Nenets district.
A few kilometers from the city towards Korotchaevo there is a
monument to the first drilled well R-2. You can find it by following the
sign, driving about 5 km south of the post.
In the northern part
of the city there is a monument to three wars and an eternal flame.
Nearby is an open-air museum of military equipment.
There are
also many monuments in the city, such as a monument to the family, a
monument to Vysotsky, etc.
At the 66th km of the Urengoy-Yamburg
highway there is an updated Stella "Polar Circle". True, it is not
possible to get to it, since the road is a fishing road and is hidden
behind a security post.
A clock in the form of a fountain fixture
appeared in Urengoy, located at the Olimpiysky microdistrict, 11
(administrative building).
The monument to the Methane molecule
is located on the square near the SOK building near Lake Molodeznoye
Art Museum, st. Molodezhnaya, 17. The only art museum in the
Yamalo-Nenets District.
MBOU "Children's Ecological Station" at 44
Yuzhnaya Street. There you can see and feed reindeer, see owls, arctic
foxes and other northern representatives of the fauna.
In winter,
a thematic exhibition of structures made of ice, beautifully illuminated
with multi-colored lights, takes place in the city square. Fortresses,
slides, walls... It's worth seeing with your own eyes.
Youth
leisure is very developed in the city. If desired, you can find youth
clubs, both paid and free, where teenagers can spend time, play various
board and active games under the supervision of curators. In the summer,
many courtyards hold “yard festivals” with life-size puppets, games, and
prizes. In the south of the city, near Lake Molodezhnoe there is a city
library, which also holds various events that everyone can attend.
Average cost
Prices in the city are higher than the national
average. There are a lot of kebab and sushi places, there are pizzerias,
you should be careful with shawarma.
Expensive
There are
expensive restaurants, but, unfortunately, in most establishments in the
city (regardless of the price segment), prices are significantly higher
than the quality of service.
Expensive
The search engine will easily find you hotels, and on
Avito you can independently find apartments for daily rent at a price of
around 3k per day (the price is valid for January 2021). There are no
hostels in the city, but there are dorms for shift workers, most often
in disgusting condition.
In 1949, by order of Joseph Stalin, the construction
of the Salekhard - Igarka transpolar railway began in the
circumpolar tundra. The road was built by tens of thousands of
people, who, for the most part, were prisoners of the Gulag. The
builders planned to stay at the former trading post Urengoy for a
long time. However, after Stalin's death, the work was curtailed,
the road by the beginning of the 1960s turned out to be of no use to
anyone and was called "dead". The image of this branch was presented
on a map-scheme of railway tracks, located on one of the walls of
the railway station in Tyumen.
For a long time, the 501st and
503rd construction sites were not mentioned anywhere, but the work
of the builders was not in vain - he helped seismic prospectors and
drillers to discover the Urengoy fields and equip them at a faster
pace.
In January 1966, the V. Tsybenko seismic station, which
was the discoverer of the Urengoy structure, occupied the barracks
of the abandoned prisoner camp of the 503rd construction site.
On June 6, 1966, a team of foreman V. Polupanov drilled the
first exploration well, and a new unique natural gas field -
Urengoyskoye - appeared on the geological map of the country.
On September 22, 1973, on the site of the future city, a
symbolic peg with a sign "Yagelnoe" was hammered - that was the name
of the village at first, and on December 23 a convoy arrived to
build the city. On June 19, 1975, drilling of the first production
well was completed.
On August 18, 1975, the state
registration of the village of Novy Urengoy took place. Construction
of the airport began on September 25, 1975, and the first technical
flight was made in October.
In 1976, the first children were
born in Novy Urengoy - Sveta Popkova and Andrei Bazilev. On
September 1, 1976, the first school opened, and 72 students sat down
at their desks.
In January 1978, the Urengoygazdobycha
production association was formed. On April 22, 1978, the first
complex gas treatment unit at Urengoy was commissioned, and
commercial operation of the Urengoyskoye field began. On May 30, the
first billion cubic meters of Urengoy gas was produced. On April 30,
1978, soldiers of the All-Union Komsomol Shock Detachment named
after the XVIII Congress of the Komsomol arrived in Novy Urengoy.
The settlement developed rapidly, the volume of gas production
grew, and on June 16, 1980 it was given the status of a city with
the name of Novy Urengoy, of district significance. 1975 is
considered the year of foundation of the city. City Day, like most
other cities, is celebrated on the first weekend of September.
In September 1982, the city received rail links to the rest of
the country.
In 1983, the construction of the Urengoy -
Pomary - Uzhgorod gas pipeline was completed, and in 1984 gas from
Urengoy began to flow to Western Europe.
On November 5, 1984,
the working village of Korotchaevo was transferred to the
administrative subordination of the city council, on May 10, 1988 -
the working village of Limbyayakha.
The municipal formation
of the city of Novy Urengoy was formed in accordance with the law of
the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug dated January 5, 1996 No. 34 "On
the municipal formations of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug."
On September 6, 1998, an Agreement was signed between the twin
cities of Novy Urengoy and San Donato Milanese (Italy).
According to the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Law No. 107-ZAO
dated December 16, 2004, the villages of Korotchaevo and Limbyayakha
ceased to exist as administrative-territorial units and became part
of the city of Novy Urengoy, as a result of which the city turned
out to be one of the longest in the world - more than 80 km.
In December 2004, the Pestsovoye field was brought into commercial
operation.
On September 3, 2005, a Cooperation Agreement was
signed with the city of Kassel (Hesse, Germany).
On September
3-4, 2005, Novy Urengoy celebrated its 30th anniversary. On the days
of the anniversary celebrations, an eternal flame was lit on the
Memory Square, the first fountain in the city was opened.
On
November 4, 2006, the official opening of the Memory Square took
place in the Student microdistrict.
On March 24, 2007, an
Agreement on Cooperation was signed between the municipalities of
the city of Novy Urengoy and the resort town of Anapa.
Despite the fact that Novy Urengoy is located in an
area of a temperate sharply continental climatic zone, the city's
territory falls on its northernmost part, bordering on a subarctic
climate, and therefore the weather conditions are appropriate here.
The mark of the average annual air temperature in the city ranges
from -4.7 ° C, and the average annual humidity is only 68%.
Winters in Novy Urengoy are long and cold (about 284 days a year).
The coldest temperatures are in January and February. And although
the monthly averages for these months are -20.7 and -18.6 ° C,
during this period, thermometers often drop below -30 ° C, often
holding at -45 ° C.
The warmest period is in July, with
average monthly temperatures of + 17.1 ° C.
The city is
characterized by sharp temperature changes and strong winds.
Average annual air temperature - -4.7 ° C
Relative air humidity -
68.0%
Average wind speed - 3.4 m / s
Urban and suburban transport
There are bus routes in Novy
Urengoy:
No. 1 - "Airport - North"
No. 2 - "Eastern Industrial
Zone - SMP700"
No. 3 - "Airport - Railway Station"
No. 4 -
"North - South"
No. 5 - "Airport - MK-144"
No. 6 - "d / k
Dorozhnik - MK-105"
No. 7 - "North - railway station"
No. 8 -
"North - South"
No. 13 - "Airport - Limbyayakha - Korotchaevo"
No. 22, No. 22A - "Limbyakha - Korotchaevo"
Railway transport
In Novy Urengoy there is a railway station and a railway branch to
Salekhard begins. The section to Nadym is active, then closed and
inactive. In this regard, it is possible to get to Novy Urengoy by
rail only through Tyumen.
Railway transport connects Novy
Urengoy with cities:
Moscow,
Ekaterinburg,
Chelyabinsk,
Ufa,
Kazan,
Omsk,
Novosibirsk,
Orenburg.
Air
transportation
Novy Urengoy airport is located five kilometers
south-west of the city.
Air transportation is carried out to
the cities:
Moscow
Belgorod
Ekaterinburg
Krasnodar
Krasnoyarsk
Novosibirsk
Omsk
Sabetta
St. Petersburg
Tyumen
Ufa
Samara
In 2013, at a meeting with the
governor, a project for a new airport was presented, taking into
account the weather conditions in the region. According to the
project, the airport was supposed to be built in the form of the
emblem of "Gazprom", which will be visible from space.