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Usinsk is located in the Komi Republic. A few
travelers may find themselves in the city in an attempt to explore
some of the natural features around the city. However, most of the
guests of the city arrive in Usinsk due to production needs.
Usinsk is located in the northern part of the Komi Republic. The
city is the center of a large but sparsely populated urban district.
The main development Usinsk received as a regional center of oil
production and its processing. The village Usinsk has its history
since 1966, and the status of the city was received less than thirty
years ago, in 1984.
Monument to the mosquito.
Wooden temple Softener of evil
hearts.
Local History Museum, st. Neftyanikov, d.37
Rock "Ring", a geological
monument, is located on the right bank of the Sharyu River, 50 km from
its mouth. Standing "on their heads" layers of dolomites and dolomitized
limestones of the Silurian age. A hole (“ring”) 2.5 × 5 meters in size
is formed in one of the layers. Recognized as a geological monument in
accordance with the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Komi ASSR
on March 29, 1984 as an example of the manifestation of frosty
weathering.
Rock outcrops "Middle Gates of the Sharyu River", a
geological monument, is located 3.5 km above the "Ring". A canyon-like
section of the river with a length of 0.5 km. The height of the rocks is
up to 70 meters. Recognized by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of
the Komi ASSR on March 29, 1984 to preserve the best section of the
Chernyshev Ridge Carboniferous. Security mode custom.
"Sharyu natural
monument", located 50 km from the mouth of the Sharyu River. Continuous
rock outcrops along both banks of the river for 1 km, composed of
steeply sloping layers of coral, brachiopod, goniatite limestone,
mudstone, oil shale, dolomite. Recognized by the Decree of the Council
of Ministers of the Komi ASSR on March 29, 1984 to preserve one of the
most complete sections of the Upper Silurian, Lokhkovsky, Frasnian,
Famennian stages; locations of fossil fauna.
The Usinsky complex reserve is located in the interfluve of the Pechora,
Mustache, Bolshaya Son, Vyatkina. It was created by the Decree of the
Council of Ministers of the Komi ASSR on March 29, 1984 (before that,
since 1978 - the Usinsky swamp natural monument) to preserve a unique
complex of wetlands of international importance.
Swamp of Nessanyur,
a swamp reserve, is located on the left bank of the Kolva River.
Represents a transitional stage from aapa to hilly swamps. The
vegetation is shrub-forb-sphagnum. The average depth is 2 meters, the
maximum is 4 meters. The area is 1,700 hectares.
The Usinsky
Ichthyological Reserve is located on the section of the Usa River
between Cape Pictor and the mouth of the Ponyu River. It includes the
channel of the Usa River and forest protection zones on both banks. The
area is 7.8 thousand hectares. The width of the Usa River within the
reserve is 400–600 m, the average depth is 2.5 m, and the maximum depth
is 7 m. The reserve was created by the Decree of the Council of
Ministers of the Komi ASSR on March 29, 1984 to protect spawning grounds
and conditions for the reproduction of whitefish.
Natural
resources
The city owes its birth to oil and associated gas, the main
capital of the local subsoil, the basis of the economic development of
the territory. Currently, Usinsk produces about 60% of oil and 3% of gas
from the total production of these types of raw materials in the Komi
Republic.
MO GO "Usinsk" is located in difficult natural and
climatic conditions. However, due to its geographical location, created
economic potential, reserves of explored natural resources, and together
with the Timan-Pechora territorial production complex - a large fuel and
energy base of the European part of the country, it is an important part
of the national economic complex of Russia. Today Usinsk is one of the
leading industrial cities of the Komi Republic.
The village of Usinsk was founded in 1966. In March
1970, the construction of the city of Usinsk began, initially they were
simple wooden houses made of timber, on December 24, 1974 the first
secondary school was built, and on May 1, 1975 the first 5-storey panel
house was put into operation. After that, the construction went on at an
accelerated pace, the city grew before our eyes. Young people from all
over the Union built a dream city in the swamps.
In 1984, Usinsk
received city status. With the collapse of the USSR, the pace of
construction in the city fell.
In 1994, in the Usinsky district,
a major oil spill occurred on the Vozey-Headworks pipeline from the
Kharyaginskoye field - hundreds of hectares of land were flooded. About
200 thousand tons of oil spilled out. Oil and oil products got into the
rivers Kolva, Usa, Pechora.
In October 2020, another major oil
spill occurred from the inactive oil pipeline of the Kharyaginskoye
field in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, owned by LUKOIL-Komi, into the
Kolva River near Usinsk. On May 11, 2021, the head of Usinsk introduced
an emergency regime in the municipality for the second time in the last
seven months: due to depressurization in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug of
the pressure oil pipeline from the main pumping station of the Osh field
to BPS-5 of the Kharyagin field from the oil gathering collector of one
of the wells of the Osh field, owned by LUKOIL-Komi, about 90 tons of
oil products spilled into the soil and the Kolva River. An iridescent
film was noticed on the surface of the Kolva River in the area of the
fourth bridge. The area of oil pollution reached almost 13 thousand m².
On May 13, the oil slick reached the village of Kolva.
It arose in 1966 as a settlement on the river Usa,
since 1984 - the city of Usinsk. Name after the hydronym Usa (right
tributary of the Pechora). The hydronym from the Komi language is not
explained. Apparently, it has an ancient Finno-Ugric origin and in the
forms "Usa", "Uksa" is repeatedly found in the hydronymy of the North of
the European part of Russia; presumably means "tributary".
Geography
The city is located in the north-east of the Komi Republic
in the Cis-Urals, in the basin of the middle Pechora and its right
tributary of the Usa River (about 4 km): located on the right bank of
the river. Usa, near its confluence with the Pechora, 3 km from the
railway. station, 757 km northeast of Syktyvkar, 90 km south of the
Arctic Circle. The territory of the municipality GO "Usinsk" is 3056420
ha, which is 7.3% of the area of the Komi Republic.
Timezone
Usinsk, like the entire Komi Republic, lives according to Moscow time,
that is, the offset relative to GMT is +3:00 (MSK).
Climate
Climate: despite the fact that on the climatic map of Russia the climate
is designated as temperate continental, in terms of its parameters it is
closer to the subarctic. In winter, the minimum temperature often
reaches -40 °C, -50 °C and lower, while in summer the maximum
temperature sometimes reaches +35 °C, +40 °C. The minimum air
temperature in the area was recorded in the winter from 1978 to 1979 on
Vozey and reached -64 ° C, at the same time in the city itself the
temperature was -58 ° C. The main feature of the climate here is
frequent fluctuations and strong temperature fluctuations during one
day, both in summer and in winter. Within a few hours, the temperature
can change by 40 degrees or more. Snow cover lasts 230 days a year, from
mid-October to June. From September to mid-October, frequent prolonged
drizzling freezing rains. The warmest season is from mid-July to
mid-August.
Polar Star
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Usinsk