Ukhta ( Russian : Ухта́ ; Komi : Уква , Ukva ) is an important industrial town in the Komi Republic of Russia . Population: 97,899 ( 2021 Census ) ; 99,591 ( 2010 Census ) ; 103,340 ( 2002 Census ) ; 110,548 ( 1989 Soviet census ) .
4-606: It was previously known as Chibyu (until 1939). Oil springs along the Ukhta River were already known in the 17th century. In the mid-19th century, industrialist M. K. Sidorov started to drill for oil in this area. It was one of the first oil wells in Russia. There was homecraft oil-field in 1920–1921 in Ukhta. Lying on the river of the same name, the settlement was founded as the village of Chibyu in 1929, but in 1939 it
8-590: Is piped to oil refineries between St. Petersburg and Moscow . There have been a few gas pipeline explosions at a distance of Eight kilometres (five miles) from the town since the 1990s. Ukhta has a continental subarctic climate ( Dfc ) with long, very cold winters and short, warm summers. Compared with areas at a similar latitude in Siberia , winters are less extreme, but still much longer than summer and bitterly cold by European standards. Ukhta River Too Many Requests If you report this error to
12-494: The town of republic significance of Ukhta —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , the town of republic significance of Ukhta is incorporated as Ukhta Urban Okrug . Ukhta lies within the Timan-Pechora Basin , an important oil and gas -producing region. The oilfields lie just south of the city. Some of the Ukhta's oil is refined locally; most, however,
16-597: Was renamed Ukhta. It was granted town status in 1943 when it was linked to the Pechora Railway . To the east of the town is Sosnogorsk , and to the southwest— Yarega . In addition to its rail link, Ukhta also has an airport . The town expanded in the 1940s and 1950s by use of political prisoners' forced labor (see: gulag ). Within the framework of administrative divisions , it is, together with four urban-type settlements ( Borovoy , Vodny , Shudayag , and Yarega ) and thirteen rural localities , incorporated as
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