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24-537: The field was discovered in 1965. Development started in 1967 and first oil was produced in 1969. Discovery of this field had changed Nizhnevartovsk from a small nearby village into a busy oil city as Samotlor used to be the most important oil production base of the Soviet Union . After breakup of the Soviet Union the field was owned by Samotlorneftgaz and TNK-Nizhnevartovsk, which later formed TNK-BP. Over

48-421: A good development of the grass-shrub layer is characteristic, in which the dominant value belongs to forest shrubs (blueberries, cranberries, watermelons, marsh bagulnik) and taiga smallgrass (Linnea Severnaya, kislitsa, maynik dvulistnogo). Shrubs are represented by Siberian mountain ash, individual specimens. Green mosses are always present in these forests. Nizhnevartovsk was founded in 1909 (or 1905), built as

72-424: A large village to a boomtown , Komsomol volunteers were brought in from across the country to construct the city, and Nizhnevartovsk's population skyrocketed from 2300 people in 1959 to 15,663 in 1970. Town status was granted to Nizhnevartovsk on March 9, 1972. Within the framework of administrative divisions , Nizhnevartovsk serves as the administrative center of Nizhnevartovsky District , even though it

96-580: A service point for merchant steamships operating on the Ob River to acquire stocks of firewood to power their boats. The new village had five homes with a population of eleven people, and was named Nizhnevartovskoye ( Нижневартовское ), in reference to the Vartovskaya River, a tributary of the Ob located 180 versts (190 km; 120 mi) downstream. In early 1924, Nizhnevartovsky Selsoviet

120-420: Is a member of the white pine group, Pinus subgenus Strobus , and like all members of that group, the leaves ('needles') are in fascicles (bundles) of five, with a deciduous sheath. They are 5–10 cm long. Siberian pine cones are 5–9 cm long. The 9–12 mm long seeds have only a vestigial wing and are dispersed by spotted nutcrackers . Siberian pine is treated as a variety or subspecies of

144-485: Is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the city of okrug significance of Nizhnevartovsk —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , the city of okrug significance of Nizhnevartovsk is incorporated as Nizhnevartovsk Urban Okrug . Nizhnevartovsk is the center of the West Siberian oil-producing region and one of

168-852: Is observed in February. Snow cover is formed in October—early November, and its descent is observed in late April-early may. As the entire district is equated to the regions of the Far North. In the Nizhnevartovsky district, as well as throughout the entire territory of the Middle Ob region, cedar (people in Russia called "cedar" some species of pine, in this case – Siberian pine ) forests are indigenous, and birch and aspen trees that have arisen in their place are derived. The basis of

192-647: The Soviet Union until it is sabotaged , causing a major economic crisis which triggers World War III . Siberian pine Pinus sibirica , or Siberian pine , in the family Pinaceae is a species of pine tree that occurs in Siberia from 58°E in the Ural Mountains east to 126°E in the Stanovoy Range in southern Sakha Republic , and from Igarka at 68°N in the lower Yenisei valley, south to 45°N in central Mongolia . Pinus sibirica

216-656: The alpine tree line in this area. The mature size is up to 30–40 m height, and 1.5 m trunk diameter. Its maximum lifetime is 800–850 years. Siberian pine, Pinus sibirica , is a popular ornamental tree in parks and large gardens where the climate is cold, such as central Canada , giving steady though not fast growth on a wide range of sites. It is very tolerant of severe winter cold, hardy down to at least –60 °C, and also of wind exposure. The seeds are also harvested and sold as pine nuts , which in Russia are marketed as Cedar nuts ( Russian : Кедровые орехи ). The Russian name Сибирский кедр ( tr. Sibirsky kedr)

240-521: The 1960s, the Western Siberian oil boom has led to Nizhnevartovsk's rapid growth from a small settlement to a city due to its location beside the Samotlor oil field along the right bank of the Ob River , 30 kilometers (19 mi) from the border with Tomsk Oblast , and the presence of the petroleum industry has made it one of the wealthiest cities in Russia. Nizhnevartovsk is one of

264-459: The American native white pines in many areas, notably the closely related whitebark pine . Siberian pine is of great value for research into hybridisation and genetic modification to develop rust resistance in these species. In the north of its range, it grows at low altitudes, typically 100–200 m, whereas further south, it is a mountain tree, growing at 1,000-2,400 m altitude. It often reaches

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288-435: The all development period a total of 2,086 well clusters (containing more than 17,000 wells) have been built and about 2.6 billion tons of oil has been produced. The peak production occurred in 1980 when Samotlor produced 158.9 million tons of oil (7 Mbbl/d or 1.1 × 10 ^  m/d). The production has been in decline ever since, although according to TNK-BP the field production has stabilized over

312-423: The average value of which is 5 °C. The annual precipitation rate is of the continental type. During the cold period, about 20% of the annual amount falls. Most of them fall in the first months of winter. The maximum annual precipitation falls in the summer months of the year — from June to August. In some years, the amount of precipitation may deviate significantly from the norm. The annual minimum precipitation

336-447: The district's forests is made up of three species: pine, cedar and birch. Among the forest formations, the area is dominated by pine trees. Cedar forests cover less than a quarter of the forested area. A third of the area is occupied by small-leaved forests. Pine trees are found on sandy and sandy loam strongly podzolic soils and are confined to elevated terrain areas. The most common types are lichen and cranberry pines. For cedar trees,

360-439: The dynamics of water level rise was the climatic features of the spring period. Nizhnevartovsk is located in the continental climate zone. The climate is characterized by a long winter, long snow cover (200–210 days), short transitional seasons, late spring and early autumn frosts, short frost-free period (100–110 days), and short summer (10–14 weeks). Winter is characterized by significant inter-day variability in air temperature,

384-593: The entire district, is located in the Moscow time zone+2 (Yekaterinburg time). The offset of the applied time relative to UTC is +5: 00 The main watercourse of the city is the Ob river, from the mouth of the Svitlaya Bayou to the Lokosovskaya Bayou. Within the Nizhnevartovsky district, the section of the middle Ob river is 134 km long and the floodplain is 18 to 20 km wide. By the nature of

408-526: The few cities in Russia that exceeds the population of the administrative center of its federal subject . Population: 283,256 ( 2021 Census ) ; 251,694 ( 2010 Census ) ; 239,044 ( 2002 Census ) ; 241,457 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . Nizhnevartovsk is located in the Sredneobskaya lowland of the West Siberian plain in the middle reaches of the Ob river on its right Bank. Moscow time+2 (Yekaterinburg time) Nizhnevartovsk, like

432-493: The forest-steppe zone adjacent to it from the South; this difference is primarily due to a change in the ratio of water balance elements. With a noticeable increase in precipitation, with a decrease in their losses to evaporation, surface runoff increases sharply here. In 2015, the largest flooding of territories adjacent to Nizhnevartovsk in thirty years occurred, including numerous dachas and gardening associations. The reason for

456-563: The level of 30 million tons per year. The oil processing plant in Nizhnevartovsk is the scene of (but referred to by location rather than directly by name) the beginning of Tom Clancy's 1986 novel Red Storm Rising . Nizhnevartovsk Nizhnevartovsk (Russian: Нижневартовск , IPA: [nʲɪʐnʲɪˈvartəfsk] ) is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug–Yugra , Russia . Since

480-772: The past last years after. The in-place oil reserves of the Samotlor field were equal to 55 billion barrels (8.7 × 10 ^  m) and as of 2009 estimated at 1 billion barrels (160 × 10 ^  m). The proven reserves are approximately 44 billion barrels (7.0 × 10 ^  m). The field is 80% depleted with water-cut up to 90%. At the end of the 1990s, production rate dropped to 300,000 barrels per day (48,000 m/d). However, through an aggressive exploration program and application of cutting-edge technologies TNK-BP had raised production up to 750,000 barrels per day (119,000 m/d). Up to 2012, TNK-BP plans to invest US$ 1 billion per year for maintaining oil production in it at

504-486: The very similar Swiss pine ( Pinus cembra ) by some botanists. It differs in having slightly larger cones, and needles with three resin canals instead of two in Swiss pine. Like other European and Asian white pines, Siberian pine is very resistant to white pine blister rust ( Cronartium ribicola ). This fungal disease was accidentally introduced from Europe into North America , where it has caused severe mortality in

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528-409: The water regime, it belongs to the type of rivers with spring and summer floods and floods in the warm period of the year. The duration of the flood is on average 60–130 days. The appearance of ice formations on rivers is typical for the second half of October—early November. The average duration of ice build-up is 180–200 days. In hydrographic terms, the taiga zone of the Ob river differs sharply from

552-471: The wealthiest cities in the country. Nizhnevartovsk is home to Nizhnevartovsk State University , a higher education institution with over 5,000 students. Nizhnevartovsk features prominently in the opening of Tom Clancy 's novel Red Storm Rising , which details a hypothetical war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact . In the novel, Nizhnevartovsk is depicted as a significant center for petroleum in

576-527: Was formed. Nizhnevartovsk remained a relatively small settlement until the 1960s when the Soviet authorities began widespread prospecting for the petroleum industry in the Western Siberia region, discovering the Samotlor oil field , one of the largest oil fields in the world, beneath the nearby Lake Samoltor to the north of Nizhnevartovsk. The discovery saw its rapid development and growth from

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