Noyabrsk

Noyabrsk (English) Ноябрьск (Russian)
-  City[citation needed]  -
City center of Noyabrsk
Location of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia
Noyabrsk
Coordinates: 63°12′N 75°27′E / 63.2°N 75.45°E / 63.2; 75.45Coordinates: 63°12′N 75°27′E / 63.2°N 75.45°E / 63.2; 75.45
Coat of arms	Flag
City Day	Observed in September[citation needed]
Administrative status
Country	Russia
Federal subject	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Municipal status
Urban okrug	Noyabrsk Urban Okrug[citation needed]
Head[citation needed]	Nikolay Korobkov[citation needed]
Representative body	City Duma[citation needed]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census, preliminary)	110,572 inhabitants[1]
- Rank in 2010	144th
Population (2002 Census)	96,440 inhabitants[2]
- Rank in 2002	171st
Time zone	YEKST (UTC+06:00)[3]
Founded	October 26, 1977[citation needed]
Postal code(s)	629811[citation needed]
Dialing code(s)	+7 3496[citation needed]
Official website

Noyabrsk (Russian: Ноя́брьск) is the largest city in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located in the middle of the West Siberian oil fields, on the Tyumen–Novy Urengoy railway about 300 kilometers (190 mi) north of Surgut. Population: 104,144 (2010 Census preliminary results);^[1]

History

The city history dates back to 1975 when a landing party arriving by helicopter disembarked on the ice of the Itu-Yakha River to start developing Kholmogorskoye oil field. In November 1976, the first party of railway builders arrived at the site of the future town and camped out by the lake Khanto with the task of creating a settlement. On October 26, 1977, the settlement of Noyabrsk, which grew around the railway station of Noyabrskaya, was officially registered. It was decided to choose the name of "Noyabrsk" instead of the other proposal, "Khanto", to perpetuate the memory of the first arrival in November 1976, as the Russian word for November is Ноя́брь (Noyab'r). The settlement was granted status of work settlement on November 12, 1979 and that of a town on April 28, 1982.^[4]

Demographics

Population changes
Year	1982	1986	1989	1996	2002	2004	2006	2010
Population	25,100	68,000	85,880[5]	95,500	96,440[2]	98,400	108,500	110,572[1]

• Graph of population growth:

The average age of the population is just over 30.^[6]

Economy

The economy of Noyabrsk is based on hydrocarbons production. Noyabrsk is the base of operations for two major companies.^[6] Gazpromneft–Noyabrskneftegaz is a major oil producing subsidiary of Gazprom Neft.^[7] It is the largest oil company in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and accounts for 6% of Russia's total oil production. In the natural gas sector, Gazprom dobycha Noyabrsk—one of the three leading Gazprom subsidiaries—has an annual production of 85 billion cubic meters.^[6] This corresponds to 9.3% of Gazprom's total yearly gas production.^[8] It operates several gas fields around the city. To the northeast: the Vyngapurovskoye (launched in 1978) and Vyngayakhinskoye (launched in 2006) fields; and to the northwest: the Komsomolskoye (launched in 1993) and Zapadno-Tarkosalinskoye (launched in 1996) fields. The main business advantage of Gazprom dobycha Noyabrsk is the low prime cost of production. The company also provides operator services in gas and consensation production and gas treatment.^[9] In addition, there are over 1,000 companies providing services for the oil and gas industry and support for the social infrastructure of the city.^[6]

Transport

Approximately six km to the west of the town there is Noyabrsk Airport. It is a modern airport capable of landing large aircraft.^[6] There are flights most days to Moscow (Domodedovo or Vnukovo Airports), several times a week to Salekhard, and to a variety of other locations. The town is divided into a smaller southern part, Noyabrsk-I, and a larger northern part, Noyabrsk-II, each having its own train station. which has caught novice travellers out in the past. The railway line separates the residential part of the town from the industrial sites that service the oil fields.

Media and communication

The oldest local newspaper is "Severnaya Vakhta" (Russian: Се́верная Ва́хта, "Northern Watch"). Its first issue came out in January 1983. As of 2007, the paper is printed thrice a week and is distributed not only in the town but also in the neighbouring settlements - Hanymey, Vingapurovskiy, Muravlenko, Kholmy. There is also a local newspaper called Region 57 after the registration plate code for cars from the area, and a newspaper Slovo Neftyanika (Russian: Сло́во Нефтя́ника, "The word of the Oil-Worker"). The town has its radio stations, such as Radio Noyabrsk, a TV channel Mig (Russian: Миг, a moment), a Tele-express studio.

Education

The first school of Noyabrsk was opened in 1977, barely a year after the beginning of the settlement. Now Noyabrsk has 14 schools, a pedagogical college, an evening school, a children's art and a children's musical schools and driving schools. Providing higher education services to the population are 8 branches and 4 affiliated schools of higher education establishments of Tyumen, Tomsk and other cities of Russia.^[6]

Recreation, sports, sights

Noyabrsk boasts numerous sport facilities, including artificial ice rink and a number of open-air rinks in the winter, cross-country skiing tracks, several indoor swimming pools, a number of gyms and indoor playing fields used for football, basketball, volleyball, lawn-tennis, ping-pong, martial arts training, boxing.

Notable facilities include the indoor ice skating rink near school no.6 and the "Yamal" complex near the town center, which combines a swimming pool, gym, and concert hall.

The motocross track of Noyabrsk presents an arena for the annual Yamal motocross cup championship; one of stages of Russian motocross championship is also conducted here.

Recreation for the visiting oil worker or resident also includes a movie theater, shopping centers, bars.

During summer, Lake Khanto 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of the town is popular for walking and barbecues. A little further from the town are other popular lakes, Svetloye and Szemchuzhnoye.

In the summer and during early autumn the forests and marshes attract many people for hiking, camping and gathering berries and mushrooms.

In winter, there is a cross-country ski-club to the immediate west of the residential districts. Winter also normally has an "Ice Palace" constructed for some weeks in the town center's park, beside the city administrative offices.

There is a park with a Ferris wheel in the center of the town.

There is a Great Patriotic War memorial in the town, with the traditional eternal flame.

The Museum Resource Center of Noyabrsk comprises three departments: arts museum, town history museum, and the museum of children art. It boasts a rich ethnographical collection and provides place for diverse thematical expositions.^[10] In 2007 the center was awarded Grand Prix at the annual Yamal Museum Projects festival.^[11]

Two religious landmarks of the town are the Russian Orthodox Archangel Michael Church, which stands on a hill surrounded by trees, and a mosque.

Crime

Noyabrsk was a very young and partially closed town during the Soviet era, with a predominantly professional working population, which provided some protection from external criminal influence. With its opening in the early 1990s and with oil and gas industry maintaining relatively high living standards in the economic turmoil of Post-Soviet Russia, illicit drug business became highly profitable, drawing criminal elements from other regions. The situation was compounded by the police and officials being corrupted and ill equipped to tackle the problem and by the general lack of occupations for the teenagers. The drug abuse situation in Noyabrsk was covered on national TV and in other media and finally official and citizen organisations arose to fight the problem.^[12]

Crime is a minor problem for visitors, though the ubiquity of metal bars on ground-floor residence windows and 5 millimetres (0.20 in)-thick steel sheeted apartment doors indicates a continuing burglary issue. The park beside the city administration offices sports abundant used syringes and hypodermic needles, giving adequate testimony to the presence of injecting addicts and the consequent need for "street awareness" in the visitor. Muggings have been reported, but tend to get hushed up.^{[citation needed]}

On March 17, 2009, a criminal case against the mayor Nikolay Korobkov was sent to court. According to the prosecution, he transferred some municipal property to a private company when he didn't have the power to do so.^[13]

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References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2011). "Предварительные итоги Всероссийской переписи населения 2010 года (Preliminary results of the 2010 All-Russian Population Census)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2010). Federal State Statistics Service. http://www.perepis-2010.ru/results_of_the_census/results-inform.php. Retrieved 2011-04-25. 
2. ^ ^{a b} Федеральная служба государственной статистики (Federal State Statistics Service) (2004-05-21). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек (Population of Russia, its federal districts, federal subjects, districts, urban localities, rural localities—administrative centers, and rural localities with population of over 3,000)" (in Russian). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года (All-Russia Population Census of 2002). Federal State Statistics Service. http://www.perepis2002.ru/ct/doc/1_TOM_01_04.xls. Retrieved 2010-03-23. 
3. ^ Правительство Российской Федерации. Постановление №725 от 31 августа 2011 г. «О составе территорий, образующих каждую часовую зону, и порядке исчисления времени в часовых зонах, а также о признании утратившими силу отдельных Постановлений Правительства Российской Федерации». Вступил в силу по истечении 7 дней после дня официального опубликования. Опубликован: "Российская Газета", №197, 6 сентября 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Resolution #725 of August 31, 2011 On the Composition of the Territories Included into Each Time Zone and on the Procedures of Timekeeping in the Time Zones, as Well as on Abrogation of Several Resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation. Effective as of after 7 days following the day of the official publication).
4. ^ Charter of the Municipal Formation of the City of Noyabrsk, adopted on January 1, 2006
5. ^ "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров. (All Union Population Census of 1989. Present population of union and autonomous republics, autonomous oblasts and okrugs, krais, oblasts, districts, urban settlements, and villages serving as district administrative centers.)" (in Russian). Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года (All-Union Population Census of 1989). Demoscope Weekly (website of the Institute of Demographics of the State University—Higher School of Economics. 1989. http://demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/rus89_reg.php. Retrieved 2010-03-23. 
6. ^ ^{a b c d e f} "Noyabrsk". RusBusinessNews. http://www.rusbiznews.com/regions/The_Urals_Federal_District/The_Yamalo-Nenets_Autonomous_Okrug/Noyabrsk.html. Retrieved 2009-12-29. 
7. ^ "Oil Exploration and Production". Gazprom Neft. http://ir.gazprom-neft.com/gazprom-neft-at-a-glance/oil-production/. Retrieved 2009-12-29. 
8. ^ "Gazprom in figures 2004-2008". Gazprom. 2009. http://www.gazprom.com/f/posts/71/879403/3se.pdf. Retrieved 2009-07-02. 
9. ^ "Gazprom dobycha Noyabrsk". Gazprom. http://www.gazprom.com/subsidiaries/list-items/1169/. Retrieved 2009-12-29. 
10. ^ Noyabrsk Museum Resource Center - from the catalogue site "Museums of Russia".
11. ^ Grand Prix goes to Noyabrsk Museum Center - news report dated 02.05.2007
12. ^ Teenage drug use goes down - news report.
13. ^ Lesovskikh, Igor (18 March 2009). "Мэра Ноябрьска направили в суд". Kommersant. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?docsid=1139747. Retrieved 18 March 2009. 

External links

• Official website of Noyabrsk
• Official website of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Information about Noyabrsk
• Photo gallery