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Salekhard
Population of Salekhard: 51,186 people (2021)
Date of foundation of Salekhard: 1595
Phone code of the city Salekhard: +7 34922
Car code of the city Salekhard: 89
Salekhard is a city of district subordination, the administrative center of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of the Tyumen Region of the Russian Federation (Ural District).
Salekhard is located in the northwestern part of the West Siberian Plain, directly on the Arctic Circle, in the northwestern part of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, on the right elevated bank of the Ob River (bas. Kara Sea) at its confluence with the Polui River on the right, 1982 km north of the city.Tyumen and 2,436 km northeast of Moscow.
What to see in Salekhard
Yamalo-Nenets District Museum and Exhibition Complex named after I. S. Shemanovsky, "District House of Crafts", "City Estate Complex" on Lambinykh St., Cultural and business Center, Peter and Paul Church.
Transport in Salekhard
Transport links: by air – airport (on the northern outskirts); by waterways – river port on the Ob River; by highways Salekhard–Aksarka and Salekhard– Labytnangi–Harp (through the Ob in summer by ferry and in winter by ice road). The nearest railway station is Labytnangi, 16 km away on the other side of the Ob River.
The history of Salekhard
The settlement was founded in 1595 by Russian Cossacks as Obdorsky ostrog and for two centuries served as the northernmost outpost of the Russian state on the way to the Pacific Ocean.
Since 1930, the village of Obdorsk has been the center of the Yamal (Nenets) National District, since 1933 it has been renamed the village of Salekhard, and since 1933 the city of Salekhard. Currently, Salekhard, with an area of 2,810 hectares, is the center of geological exploration expeditions and the capital of the world's largest gas producing region, included in the "List of Historical Cities of Russia".
Economic potential: a house-building plant, a fish cannery, enterprises of air and river transport, trade and consumer services.
Sights of Salekhard
The Museum of Local Lore, the Church of Peter and Paul (1890-1894), the architectural complex "Obdorsky Ostrog", archeol. monument "Ancient Sanctuary of Ust-Polui", stele "66 parallel", memorial "To the Builders of the 501st construction site", Monument to a mammoth, Cable-stayed bridge "Torch", Monument to a deer, Laptsui L.V. Apartment Museum, Yamalo-Nenets District Museum and Exhibition Complex named after I.S.Shemansky, Monument to Muksun, City park of Culture and Recreation, Stele "Polar Star", Sculpture "Polar bears", Stele "Romantics of the 70s", Market "Gifts of Yamal".
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