Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk (Russian Ханты - Мансийск, Khanty Ёмвош, Jomwosch ) is a city in Russia with 80 151 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). It is located on the Irtysh and is the administrative center of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra.
History
Khanty-Mansiysk was founded in 1930 as a workers' settlement Ostjako - Wogulsk ( Остяко - Вогульск ), three kilometers from the renowned since 1637 settlement Samarowo ( Самарово ) away. It was named after the at that time still common names Ostyaks for the people of the Khanty and Mansi Voguls for the. In 1940 the place its present name in 1950 and the town charter, the settlement was incorporated as Samarowo district ( raion ).
Since 1992, the city is the capital of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug / Ugra.
Khanty-Mansiysk is the abundant in the district of the Khanty-Mansi Oil industry one of the most prosperous cities of Russia. The city is also a tourist center for skiing and snowboarding and is visited each year by many people.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Culture and Sport
In Khanty-Mansiysk the Biathlon World Championships in 2003 and 2011 and the Biathlon Mixed Relay World Championship in 2005 and were held in 2010, also further races during the Biathlon World Cup in the summer biathlon will be held there.
The World Chess Federation FIDE held in Khanty-Mansiysk his World Cups 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2011 ., There the 39th Chess Olympiad, the candidates tournament was held in 2010, 2014 World Chess Championship.
The Hockey Club HK Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk participates in the Kontinental Hockey League from the 2010/11 season.
Khanty-Mansiysk is thanks to generous funding shortly also become one of the strongholds of the Russian women's water polo. 2009 Junior World Championship was held here. The local team of Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk came in 2010 to the final of the LEN Trophy before and was defeated there only just the Greek representative of Ethnikos Piraeus.
2012, the World Championships were held in the billiards variant Pyramid here.
In Khanty-Mansiysk, there are five museums, five libraries and two theaters.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Yevgeny Dementiev, Russian cross-country skiers
- Nikolai Kruglov, Russian biathlete
- Evgeny Redkin, Russian biathlete
- Svetlana Slepzowa, Russian biathlete