Yamal Peninsula
Geographical location
The Yamal Peninsula (also called Samoyed Peninsula), located in north-west Siberia (Russia, Asia). The peninsula is part of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District.
Geography
The 115,000 km ² Yamal Peninsula lies northeast of the northern end of the Ural Mountains and extends west of the Obbusens in which not the Whether aiming to the north, into the icy Arctic Ocean to the already belonging Kara Sea. The peninsula corresponds essentially to the district ( raion ) Jamalski, which also includes still offshore islands ( especially in the north and Bely Naretschi and Jumzino in the south). On the mainland connection to the southwest of the peninsula or the district borders the district Schuryschkary.
The district Jamalski has an area of 117,410 km ². On 1 January 2006 it had 15,653 inhabitants. Capital is Yar-Sale on the South Coast. There are also eight other small places. These are Bobanenkowo, Japtik -sale, Mys Kamennny, Nowy Port, Panajewsk, Saleman, Se - Jacha and Sjoenaj sale.
The only sparsely populated peninsula represents the northwestern foothills of the Great Western Siberian lowlands dar. addition, the Peninsula, the landscape was shaved and flattened by Ice Age glaciers and is dominated by the tundra of the north-western part of Asia, because the adjacent Kara Sea is north as the beginning of the intra- Eurasian boundary considered.
Population and Economy
The indigenous population of the Yamal Peninsula belongs mainly to the people of the Nenets, which operates all year vollnomadische reindeer breeding there. This unique worldwide economy and life is under strong competitive pressure, on the one hand by the overgrazing of the peninsula, as Jamal houses some of the world's biggest reserves of natural gas to another. These are sponsored by the Russian gas giant Gazprom and pipelines, such as the JAMAL - Europe line headed to Europe, where they are marketed inter alia by E.ON subsidiary Ruhrgas. The JAMAL - Europe line of Gazprom transports the natural gas to Mallnow in Germany, the beginning of the Yamal gas link pipeline ( JAGAL ). A large infrastructure project with investment of the equivalent of several billion euros is the port Sabetta.
Transport links
Since 2011 Bobanenkowo and Karskaja are reachable by the railway line Obskaya - Karskaja of Obskaya from.