Labytnangi

Labytnangi (Russian Лабытнанги ) is a city in the autonomous district of the Yamal- Nenets (Russia) with 26,936 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The city is located in the northwestern part of the West Siberian Plain on the polar circle, at the eastern foot of the Polar Ural Mountains, about 16 km north- west of the capital of the Autonomous Okrug Salechard, at left tributary of the Ob Wyl - POSL.

The city Labytnangi forms an independent, rajonfreien city circle.

History

At the beginning of the 19th century, founded on the site of the present city of a camp of nomadic Khanty ( according to other sources: Nenets ). Lapyt nangk is at Khanty for seven larches.

1932 was a collective farm for fishing, hunting and reindeer herding. With the start of construction of the Arctic Circle railway in the city was chosen in the 1940s as a western starting point for the planned but not built until today crossing the Ob. 1948, the line was completed provisionally from the west. 1952 was the place for urban-type settlement. After the halt of the Arctic Circle Railway, it took until 1958 until the finished section was officially opened. At the beginning of the 1960s Labytnangi became the supply base for the exploration and exploitation of gas condensate reservoirs. 1975 was the site of a town.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Culture, Education and sights

In Labytnangi there is a branch of Tyumen Architecture and Building Academy and various institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Economy and Transport

Labytnangi is the center of the wood envelope and base for natural gas production in the area.

The town is the terminus of a 195 km long railway line which branches off at the station chum of the Pechora Railway Kotlas - Vorkuta and crossed the Urals. It is the first one completed section of the Arctic Circle Railway, which the provisional and 1955 resumed regular operations in 1948. In May 2004, a new station building was opened.

Labytnangi has a river port on the Ob. The city is connected to the neighboring town Salechard in summer by ferry, joined by over the ice of the frozen Whether bus service in winter.