Novy Urengoy is the largest settlement in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Surprisingly, in size it surpassed even the capital of the district, Salekhard. On the satellite map of Novy Urengoy you can see that the city is located on the banks of the Evoyakha River, and two more waterways - Tamchara-Yakha and Sede-Yakha, divide it into 2 parts. The city is located only 60 km from the border with the Arctic Circle, so in the summer it is always light at night.
The appearance of the settlement is associated with the development and production of gas. On the territory of the modern city, which can be seen in detail on the map of Novy Urengoy with diagrams, in the middle of the last century there was one of the Gulag camps. The barracks of the abandoned camp were occupied by geologists and seismic surveyors in 1966 to conduct research into the subsoil of this territory. A gas field was found, and a city of gas workers began to be built on the site of the camp.
The construction of the city was greatly facilitated by the railway built long before by Gulag prisoners, which is reflected on the map of Novy Urengoy by district. In fact, the first houses for natural gas producers began to appear near the railway station.
Where is Novy Urengoy located?
Novy Urengoy is located in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, is the first largest in the district and is one of the cities that exceed the administrative center of its subject of the federation in population.
The city is located in Western Siberia and is divided into southern and northern parts. Two rivers flow through the territory of New Urengoy: Tamchara-Yakha and Sede-Yakha. The approximate population is 117 thousand people. The total area of the territory of New Urengoy is 111 square kilometers. The climate in the city is temperate continental, bordering on subarctic. Winter in the city is cold and long (the average duration of winter is 10 months), summer is warm, lasting 35-45 days. The summer period is characterized by white nights.
The time zone of the city of Novy Urengoy is MSK+2, the offset relative to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is +5.
Economy and industry of New Urengoy
It is not for nothing that the population of the district calls Novy Urengoy the “gas capital”. The offices of the largest mining companies are located in the city. You can see their location on Yandex maps of Novy Urengoy. The giants of the gas mining industry form the basis of the economic stability and prosperity of the region. In addition, large energy companies such as Urengoyskaya GRES and Tyumenenergo are located here.
A large contribution to the city budget is made by food industry enterprises that produce:
- Bakery products;
- Dairy products;
- Smoked and dried products;
- Gas water.
Trade is also actively developing in the city. Currently there are more than 400 large and small shops, 6 markets, about 40 restaurants and cafes.
New Urengoy Airport
In the city of Novy Urengoy there is an airport with one runway and artificial turf. The distance from the city center to the airport is 5 km to the southwest. Airfield type: civil. The airport is open every day from 1:30 to 13:30.
Novy Urengoy Airport serves aircraft of major Russian airlines: UTair, Aeroflot, Yamal, S7 Airlines, Gazpromavia. Popular destinations of regular and charter flights: Moscow, Ufa, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoyarsk. The annual passenger traffic is more than 900 thousand people.
Map
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Novy Urengoy: photo from space (Google Maps) Novy Urengoy: photo from space (Microsoft Virtual Earth)
| New Urengoy. Nearest cities. Distances in km. on the map (in brackets along roads) + direction. Using the hyperlink in the distance , you can get the route (information courtesy of the AutoTransInfo website) | |||
| 1 | Urengoy | 77 (82) | IN |
| 2 | Pangodas | 103 (92) | Z |
| 3 | Tarko-Sale | 139 (207) | YU |
| 4 | Tazovsky | 178 () | NE |
| 5 | Purpe | 178 (265) | YU |
| 6 | Gubkinsky | 183 (273) | YU |
| 7 | Nadym | 199 (226) | Z |
| 8 | Krasnoselkup | 265 () | IN |
| 9 | Yar-Sale | 274 () | Z |
| 10 | Muravlenko | 275 (400) | SW |
| 11 | Noyabrsk | 325 (435) | YU |
| 12 | Aksarka | 400 () | Z |
a brief description of
Located in Western Siberia, on the river. Evoyakha, 60 km south of the Arctic Circle, 450 km east of Salekhard. Railway station (departmental, Ministry of Railways - Korotchaevo).
Territory (sq. km): 227
Information about the city of Novy Urengoy on the Russian Wikipedia site
Historical sketch
It arose in connection with the development of the Urengoy gas condensate field.
September 22, 1973 is considered the founding day of New Urengoy. On this day, geologists hammered a peg with a sign “Novy Urengoy” at the work site. In 1975, when gas workers completed drilling the first production well, Novy Urengoy was registered as a village. In 1975, the airport was built and the first technical flight was carried out. In 1977, the Surgut-Novy Urengoy railway was built.
City since June 16, 1980. The definition “new” in the name is associated with the existence of the workers’ village of Urengoy, which arose somewhat earlier on the right bank of the river. Pur, almost 100 km east of Novy Urengoy. The toponym Urengoy is explained as Nenets “deaf, dense.”
Since 1984, Novy Urengoy gas began to flow to Europe via the Urengoy - Pomary - Uzhgorod gas pipeline.
Municipal indicators
| Index | 1999 | 2001 | 2005 |
| Demography | |||
| Number of births, per 1000 population | 10.7 | 11.3 | 12.7 |
| Number of deaths, per 1000 population | 4.2 | 4.6 | 3.9 |
| Natural increase (decrease), per 1000 population | 6.5 | 6.7 | 8.8 |
| Standard of living of the population and social sphere | |||
| Average monthly nominal accrued wages, rub. | 7628 | 14692 | 30950 |
| Average housing area per inhabitant (at the end of the year), sq.m. | 16.3 | 15.9 | 14.8 |
| Number of preschool institutions, pcs. | 39 | 38 | 38 |
| Number of children in preschool institutions, thousand people | 6.2 | 5.9 | 6.2 |
| Enrollment of children in preschool educational institutions (at the end of the year), as a percentage of the number of children of the corresponding age, % | 82.8 | ||
| Number of daytime educational institutions (at the beginning of the school year), pcs. | 25 | 24 | 23 |
| Number of students in daytime educational institutions, thousand people | 19.9 | 18.6 | 15.6 |
| Number of doctors, people. | 334 | 390 | 485 |
| Number of nursing staff, people. | 1053 | 1135 | 1278 |
| Number of hospital institutions, pcs. | 5 | 4 | 4 |
| Number of hospital beds, thousand units | 1.1 | 1 | 1.1 |
| Number of medical outpatient clinics, pcs. | 7 | 10 | 13 |
| Capacity of medical outpatient clinics, visits per shift, thousand units. | 1.9 | 2.1 | 2.5 |
| Number of registered crimes, pcs. | 1862 | 1791 | 2706 |
| Persons who committed crimes were identified, persons. | 1119 | 1125 | 920 |
| Economy, industry | |||
| Number of enterprises and organizations (at the end of the year), pcs. | 2286 | 2570 | 1711 |
| Number of operating enterprises by type of activity: mining (at the end of the year), pcs. | 19 | ||
| Number of operating enterprises by type of activity: manufacturing (at the end of the year), pcs. | 38 | ||
| Number of operating enterprises by type of activity production and distribution of electricity, gas and water (at the end of the year), pcs. | 54 | ||
| Volume of shipped goods of own production by type of mining (in actual prices), million rubles. | 54098.8 | ||
| Volume of shipped goods of own production by type of manufacturing (in actual prices), million rubles. | 19041.2 | ||
| Volume of shipped goods of own production by type of production and distribution of electricity, gas and water (in actual current prices), million rubles. | 2324.2 | ||
| Construction | |||
| Volume of work performed by type of activity “Construction” (until 2004 - volume of work performed under construction contracts), million rubles. | 3499.5 | 17253.1 | 14940.9 |
| Commissioning of residential buildings, thousand sq.m. of total area | 23.9 | 8.6 | 21 |
| Commissioning of residential buildings, apartments | 390 | 156 | 379 |
| Commissioning of preschool institutions, places | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Commissioning of educational institutions, places | 0 | 825 | 0 |
| Commissioning of hospital facilities, beds | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Commissioning of outpatient clinics, visits per shift | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Transport | |||
| Number of bus routes (in intracity traffic), pcs. | 12 | 9 | 9 |
| Number of passengers transported by buses per year (in intracity traffic), million people. | 24 | 18.7 | 13.1 |
| Connection | |||
| Number of residential telephone sets of the city public telephone network, thousand units. | 21.5 | 23.8 | 26.2 |
| Number of payphones of the city telephone network (including universal ones), pcs. | 145 | ||
| Trade and services to the population | |||
| Retail trade turnover (in actual prices), million rubles. | 2389 | 4327 | 13085.1 |
| Retail trade turnover (in actual prices), per capita, rub. | 24153 | 43712 | 118096.1 |
| Index of physical volume of retail trade turnover, % compared to the previous year | 121 | ||
| Public catering turnover (in actual prices), million rubles. | 169.2 | 396 | 1782.2 |
| Index of physical volume of public catering turnover, % compared to the previous year | 115 | ||
| Number of stores, pavilions (at the end of the year), pcs. | 8 | ||
| Sales area of shops, pavilions (at the end of the year), sq.m. | 526 | ||
| Volume of paid services to the population (in actual prices), million rubles. | 427.7 | 864.6 | 3508 |
| Volume of paid services to the population (in actual prices), per capita, rub. | 4324 | 8734 | 31660.5 |
| Volume of household services to the population (in actual prices), million rubles. | 30.8 | 48.5 | 87.9 |
| Volume of household services to the population (in actual prices), per capita, rub. | 312 | 490 | 793.4 |
| Investments | |||
| Investments in fixed assets (in actual prices), million rubles. | 5707.6 | 8235.2 | 20961.7 |
| Share of investments in fixed assets financed from budgetary funds in the total volume of investments, % | 5.2 | 3 | 6.1 |
Data sources:
- Regions of Russia. Main characteristics of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation: statistical collection. Goskomstat of Russia. - M:, 2003.
- Regions of Russia. Volume 1. Statistical collection. Goskomstat of Russia. - M:, 2001. p. 438
- Regions of Russia. Basic socio-economic indicators of cities. 2006. Statistical collection. Rosstat. - M:, 2006. p. 277
Economy
The subsidiaries of OJSC Gazprom are Urengoygazprom and Yamburggazdobycha, which account for 74% of all gas in Russia.
Main enterprises
NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION
Urengoygazprom LLC
629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, st.
Embankment, 26 Offered by:
Yamburggazdobycha LLC
629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, st.
Taiga, 27 Offers:
TRANSPORT
OJSC "Sevtyumentransput"
629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, st.
Privokzalnaya, 1 Offers:
Construction and railway transportation
INLAND WATER TRANSPORT
Branch "River Port Urengoy" JSC "OIRP"
629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, village.
Korotchaevo Offers:
Transportation of dry cargo, oil cargo, passengers
Universities of the city
Novy Urengoy branch of the Russian New University
629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, st. 26th Congress of the CPSU, 4-G
Tyumen State University (Novo-Urengoy branch)
629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, Gubkin Ave., 13
Branch of the Moscow State Open University in Novy Urengoy
629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, Yubileiny microdistrict, 6 bldg. 3
Branch of Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics in Novy Urengoy
629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, st. Yubileinaya, 10
Yamal Oil and Gas Institute (branch) of Tyumen State Oil and Gas University
629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, Student microdistrict, 2
Museums, galleries, exhibition halls
Novy Urengoy City Museum of Fine Arts 629300, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Novy Urengoy, st. Molodezhnaya, 17 Phone(s)
| Population by year (thousands of inhabitants) | |||||||
| 1979 | 8.6 | 2000 | 89.2 | 2010 | 119.6 | 2017 | 113.3 |
| 1980 | 16.5 | 2001 | 89.6 | 2011 | 104.1 | 2018 | 114.8 |
| 1986 | 72 | 2003 | 94.5 | 2012 | 112.2 | 2019 | 116.9 |
| 1989 | 93.2 | 2005 | 109.1 | 2013 | 116.5 | 2020 | 118.0 |
| 1992 | 90.2 | 2006 | 112.5 | 2014 | 115.8 | 2021 | 118.1 |
| 1996 | 90 | 2007 | 117.0 | 2015 | 115.1 | ||
| 1998 | 89.9 | 2008 | 118.4 | 2016 | 111.2 | ||
What is Novy Urengoy famous for?
- The main symbol of the city of Novy Urengoy is a monument to a drilling well and people. The monument is made of valves and flanges that are used in gas production. The monument depicts workers standing near a borehole. There is also a plaque on the monument that says that the first exploration well was installed in June 1966.
- The Parus fountain is located in Friendship Park - the only fountain in the city, which was installed in 2005. In 2012, a large-scale reconstruction of the fountain took place. Every evening there are light shows here.
- In 2003, a monument to the “Pioneers of the Development of Urengoy” was erected in Novy Urengoy. The monument is located on the central square and is dedicated to the 25th anniversary of Urengoygazprom. The author of the project is Russian artist Nikolai Raspopov. The height of the monument is 20 m, weight is more than 3 tons. The monument represents a woman holding a bowl with a torch and the power of the earth in her hands. The monument is made of granite.
- Near the Seraphim Church there is a monument to Borodino bread, which is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. The monument is a granite pedestal on which there is a St. George ribbon and a loaf of rye bread.
- On the bank of the river there is the Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov, which was built in the fall of 1922. The church is a wooden architecture. At night, the temple is beautifully illuminated.
- In 2013, the Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy stela was opened. At the site of the monument there is the conditional 66th parallel, beyond which the Arctic Circle begins. The stele has the shape of a sphere. The monument is made of metal. The monument depicts the coat of arms of the district, the symbol of Gazprom and the flag of the Russian Federation.
- In the southern part of New Urengoy there is a builders' park. In the center of the square there is a monument to Andrei Nalivaiko, a builder, according to whose designs a large number of buildings were built in the city. There is also a board of honor and a park area in the park.
- On Privokzalnaya Street there is a monument to the first train. The monument is dedicated to the memorable event of 1982. This year the tracks to the station were laid and the city received railway connections.
- Recently, a monument dedicated to the poet and singer V. Vysotsky appeared in the city. The initiators of the installation of the monument were fans of Vysotsky’s work from among the employees of Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy.
- In 1984, the Novy Urengoy City Museum of Fine Arts opened in the city - the only museum in the entire district. Here are ethnographic instruments of Nenets culture, works of craftsmen who are dedicated to the construction of the gas pipeline. In total, the museum houses more than 2,000 historical objects. Various master classes and exhibitions are also held here.
- In the central part of the city there is a shopping mall. The main distinguishing feature of the shopping center is the helicopter, which is installed on the roof of the building. Thanks to this, the owners of the shopping complex tried to attract the attention of local residents and tourists to the shopping center.
A short excursion into the history of the city
In Stalin's times, in the tundra, which is located near the Arctic Circle, construction work began on laying a railway (its route Salekhard - Igarka). The labor of Gulag prisoners was used to build the railway track. They planned to stay in the developed area and live there permanently. However, everything changed after Stalin’s death: design developments were curtailed by 1960 and the abandoned road began to be called a dead road.
Despite this, the work of the builders more than paid off in the future. With their help, vast deposits of Urengoy natural gas were discovered. In 1966, the station of seismologists V. Tsybenko was located in the barracks where prisoners of the so-called “503 construction site” lived. The first well was drilled on June 6 of the same year. At the same time, a new designation appeared on the geological map of the country where Urengoy is located.
It is this period that is considered the date of formation of the unique Urengoy gas field with the same name. On September 22, 1973, a sign with the symbolic inscription “Novy Urengoy” appeared on the territory of the field, and workers arrived at the site to build the first buildings in the settlement.
The status of a district settlement of Novy Urengoy acquired already in September 1980, as the city infrastructure and gas production volumes grew at a rapid pace. The first gas pipeline was built already in 1983, it was called “Urengoy – Pomary – Uzhgorod”.
Four years later, natural gas began to be pumped into Western European gas storage facilities. New Urengoy is one of the longest cities in the world, which includes two huge villages - Korotchaevo and Limbayakha. The length of the territory occupied by Urengoy was 80 km.
