Salekhard

Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox Russian inhabited locality Salekhard (Template:Langx {{#invoke:IPA|main}}; Khanty: {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, Pułñawat; Template:Langx, Template:Tlit, formerly Obdorsk) is a town and the administrative centre of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The town lies on the Arctic Circle, with the town centre being about Template:Convert south and suburbs stretching to the north of the circle. The population is Template:Ru-census2021.

HistoryEdit

The settlement of Obdorsk ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) was founded in 1595, in the place of a Khanty settlement called Polnovat-Vozh ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), by Russian settlers after the conquest of Siberia.Template:Citation needed It was situated on the Ob River, and its name supposedly derives from that. The land around Obdorsk was referred to as Obdorsky krai, or Obdoriya.

The town was often used as a place of exile during the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Among notable people who spent time here were the Doukhobor spiritual leader Pyotr Verigin and Leon Trotsky. The town and nearby area contained three Soviet camps where approximately 6,500 prisoners were held, arrested for their belief in God.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At the port of Salekhard, approximately 1,500 prisoners were used as slave labor, loading and unloading goods at the dock, or mining metal ore. About 5,000 prisoners in two camps near Salekhard were forced to polish diamonds mined from Mir mine.Template:Citation needed

The nearest railway station is at Labytnangi on the opposite side of the river Ob. From 1949 to 1953, the Salekhard-Igarka Railway project made an unsuccessful attempt to extend the line to Igarka, claiming the lives of thousands of Gulag prisoners.<ref name="Among Dead Roads">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The section of railway from Salekhard to Nadym was completed and remained in use for some time in the Soviet era, although it was later abandoned. It is currentlyTemplate:When being rebuilt, along with a long-awaited bridge across the Ob between Labytnangi and Salekhard.Template:Cn

Salekhard was the host city for the 2006 Arctic Council Ministerial Meeting in October 2006.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In April 2014, Rostelecom, a Russian Internet service provider, completed the final stretch of the Nadym-Salekhard optical Internet line, which stretches for almost Template:Convert.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In the Summer of 2016, temperatures as high as Template:Convert thawed anthrax-infected corpses that had been frozen since the soviet era near Salekhard, causing anthrax spores to infect reindeer herds and herders.<ref name="Guardian80116">Template:Cite news</ref>

Administrative and municipal statusEdit

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Administrative unit of Salekhard

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with one rural locality, incorporated as the town of okrug significance of Salekhard—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.<ref name="Ref928">Law #42-ZAO</ref> As a municipal division, the town of okrug significance of Salekhard is incorporated as Salekhard Urban Okrug.<ref name="Ref933">Law #26-ZAO</ref>

DemographicsEdit

As of 2021, the ethnic composition of Salekhard was:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Russians – 66.3%
Tatars – 7.1%
Khanty – 3.8%
Ukrainians – 3.7%
Nenets – 3.7%
Komi – 2.0%
Kyrgyz – 1.4%
Others – 12%Template:Historical populations

EconomyEdit

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Sterh Supermarket
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Building of the representative office of Gazprom
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Gifts of Yamal Supermarket
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Headquarters of Yamalneftegaz
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Sezam Shopping center
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Yamal Airlines Headquarters
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Oil depot
Рыболовно-охотничий магазин «Сармик». Салехард - panoramio.jpg

Sarmik Fishing and hunting shop

Yamal Airlines has its head office in Salekhard.<ref>Yamal Airlines. Retrieved on February 27, 2012.</ref> Most of residents are employed in reindeer herding, fishing and the services sector.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

By 2015, about Template:Convert from the airport, near the Arctic Circle, authorities plan to build a large polar resort "Center of the Arctic tourism".Template:Cn

TransportationEdit

Salekhard is located in the Ob river valley and is an important river port of the Russian Far North. The unfinished Salekhard–Igarka Railway was set to provide a rail connection between the Ob river port of Salekhard and the Yenisei river port of Igarka. Currently, the nearest railway is at Labytnangi, Template:Convert northwest on the opposite side of the river Ob. The project Northern Latitudinal Railway will provide Salekhard access to Russian railway and will further connect Salekhard to the Konosha–Vorkuta railway and other parts of European Russia.<ref>Ямальская дорога в зеркале мнений — Парламентская газета «Тюменские известия». old.t-i.ru.</ref> The Salekhard Bridge project, a combined railway-road bridge over Ob river, is the main component of Northern Latitudinal Railway that will connect Labytnangi and Salekhard is to be constructed with the cost of 60 billion rubles.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nadym–Salekhard road, a 344 km long road, was inaugurated in December 2020 to the 90th anniversary of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> it will facilate the construction of a railway between the two cities and connects the eastern and western parts of Yamal Okrug.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> For 9–10 months each year, the Ob river is frozen and cars and trucks can drive across the river ice. In the summer a ferry operates, however during the floating of ice, generally shortly before the start and shortly after the end of summer, Salekhard is effectively isolated from the outside world, regarding freight. During these periods, only helicopters are able to reach Salekhard in case of emergency. Native people, mainly the Nenets and Khanty people, always build up stocks of food at home, in the shops, and in the markets during this period, but they still suffer from seasonal inflation. The city is also served by the Salekhard Airport, which is Template:Convert north of the main city.

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Ferry across the Ob river
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Salekhard Airport
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Salekhard port on Ob river
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Bus transport
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Ferry service station
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Fakel (Torch) Bridge over Poluy river

ClimateEdit

Salekhard has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification Dfc) with short, mild summers and severely cold winters. Precipitation is moderate, and is significantly greater in summer than in winter.

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GalleryEdit

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Mammoth monument in Salekhard
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Mammoth monument
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Reindeer monument in Salekhard
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Mosque in Salekhard
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Ice Palace of Salekhard
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Polyaris Entertainment center
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Wedding Palace
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Northern outskirts of Salekhard
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"Craftsmen Village"
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Arctic Hotel
Спортивный комплекс «Студенческий». Салехард - panoramio.jpg

Students sports complex