Nogliki

Nogliki (Russian Ноглики ) is an urban-type settlement in Sakhalin Oblast (Russia) with 10,231 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ).

Geography

The development is close to the eastern coast of Sakhalin Island, approximately six kilometers from the shore of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, on the right bank of the river Tym, one of the most important of the island, not far from its confluence with the Nyjski Lagoon. In the Tym lead in the area of ​​settlement and the river Imtschin Nogliki.

Nogliki is the administrative center of the homonymous Rajons Nogliki. It is located about 600 km ( straight line ) north of the Oblasthauptstadt Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

History

Nogliki arose from the late 1940s in connection with the exploration of oil deposits in the northeast of Sakhalin. 1960, the status of an urban-type settlement was awarded.

Demographics

Note: Census data

Economy and infrastructure

Nogliki 's supply base for the north-east of the settlement off the coast of Sakhalin underlying oil and gas deposits Sakhalin I and Sakhalin II In addition, there are companies in the forestry sector.

The settlement is the northern terminus of the main line of the narrow-gauge railway network ( Cape gauge 1067 mm) of the Sakhalin Island ( 662 km distance from Korsakov on Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk ). The track, whose construction began in the then part of Japan to the southern part of the island before 1945 Nogliki reached 1978.

As early as 1953 Nogliki was coming from the north by a railway with gauge reaches 750 mm, whose construction began during the Japanese occupation and the northern part of the island to Ocha 1925. The continuous passenger traffic on the 228 km long stretch from Ocha was discontinued due to the opening of the Kapspurstrecke in the 1980s; In 2006 there were on the day Rosneft belonging distance still modest freight. The 20- kilometer-long section of Nogliki to the southeast of the settlement Katangli the landing Nabil on the seashore was dismantled in the 1990s.

On September 17, 2007, an airport to service the oil and gas producing areas was put into operation.