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Kharp
Kharp (russian: Харп) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Priuralsky District of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the bank of the Sob River near the Polar Urals. Population: References {{Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Urban-type settlements in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sob (river)
The Sob (russian: Собь) is a river in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. The river is long and has a catchment area of . The Sob flows across the Priuralsky and Shuryshkarsky districts. The Salekhard–Igarka Railway stretch of the Northern Railway runs along the valley of the Sob in the Polar Urals. Since it is of relatively easy access, the river has become a tourist attraction as a Class I to IV destination for rafting and kayaking. Course The Sob is a left tributary of the Ob river. It has its sources in the eastern slopes of the southern sector of the Polar Urals. After leaving the mountainous area, the river flows roughly southeastwards and southwards among small lakes in a floodplain located at the northwestern end of the West Siberian Plain. Kharp town is located by its banks in its middle course. The area is marked by permafrost, being often swampy, and with patches of tundra and coniferous taiga. Finally the Sob meets the left bank of the Ob near Katravo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polar Urals
The Polar Urals (russian: Полярный Урал) are a mountain range in the western part of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the northeastern part of Komi, Russian Federation. The border between Europe and Asia runs along the main ridge of the Polar Urals. Google Earth The Salekhard–Igarka Railway stretch of the Northern Railway runs along the valley of the Sob in the mountains. Geography The Polar Urals are a subrange of the Urals. They stretch roughly from SW to NE for forming the northern section of the long Ural chain. The range runs from the area of the sources of the Khulga river of the Ob basin in the south, to the Konstantinov Kamen mountain rising above Baydaratskaya Bay of the Kara Sea at the northern end. The predominant elevations of the ridges range between and , with individual peaks rising slightly higher. The highest peak is high Payer Mountain, located in the middle part. The mountains display traces of massive ancient glaciation in U-shap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), ; yrk, Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ) or Yamalia (russian: Ямалия) is a federal subject of Russia and an autonomous okrug of Tyumen Oblast. Its administrative center is the town of Salekhard, and its largest city is Noyabrsk. The 2010 Russian Census recorded its population as 522,904. The Autonomous Okrug borders Krasnoyarsk Krai to the east, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug to the south, Nenets Autonomous Okrug and Komi Republic to the west. Geography and natural history The West Siberian petroleum basin is the largest hydrocarbon (petroleum and natural gas) basin in the world covering an area of about 2.2 million km2, and is also the largest oil and gas producing region in Russia. The Nenets people are an indigenous tribe who have long survived in this region. Their prehistoric life involved subsistence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priuralsky District
Priuralsky District (russian: Приура́льский райо́н; Nenets: Пэ”хэвыхы район, ''Pəꜧhəvyhy rajon'') is an administrativeLaw #42-ZAO and municipalLaw #100-ZAO district ( raion), one of the seven in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is located in the west of the autonomous okrug. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the rural locality (a '' selo'') of Aksarka Aksarka (russian: Аксарка; Nenets: Хоя’-Сале, ''Hojaꜧ-Sale'') is a rural locality (a selo) and the administrative center of Priuralsky District of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Population: Aksarka is located on t .... Population: 14,995 ( 2010 Census); The population of Aksarka accounts for 20.9% of the district's total population. References Notes Sources * * {{Use mdy dates, date=June 2013 Districts of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Types Of Inhabited Localities In Russia
The classification system of human settlement, inhabited localities in Russia and some other post-Soviet Union, Soviet states has certain peculiarities compared with those in other countries. Classes During the Soviet Union, Soviet time, each of the republics of the Soviet Union, including the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, had its own legislative documents dealing with classification of inhabited localities. After the history of the Soviet Union (1985-1991), dissolution of the Soviet Union, the task of developing and maintaining such classification in Russia was delegated to the federal subjects of Russia, federal subjects.Articles 71 and 72 of the Constitution of Russia do not name issues of the administrative and territorial structure among the tasks handled on the federal level or jointly with the governments of the federal subjects. As such, all federal subjects pass :Subtemplates of Template RussiaAdmMunRef, their own laws establishing the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Urban-type Settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, abbreviated: uk, с.м.т., translit=s.m.t.; be, пасёлак гарадскога тыпу, translit=pasiolak haradskoha typu; pl, osiedle typu miejskiego; bg, селище от градски тип, translit=selishte ot gradski tip; ro, așezare de tip orășenesc. is an official designation for a semi-urban settlement (previously called a "town"), used in several Eastern European countries. The term was historically used in Bulgaria, Poland, and the Soviet Union, and remains in use today in 10 of the post-Soviet states. The designation was used in all 15 member republics of the Soviet Union from 1922, when it replaced a number of terms that could have been translated by the English term "town" (Russia – '' posad'', Ukraine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eighth of Earth's inhabitable landmass. Russia extends across eleven time zones and shares land boundaries with fourteen countries, more than any other country but China. It is the world's ninth-most populous country and Europe's most populous country, with a population of 146 million people. The country's capital and largest city is Moscow, the largest city entirely within Europe. Saint Petersburg is Russia's cultural centre and second-largest city. Other major urban areas include Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, and Kazan. The East Slavs emerged as a recognisable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries CE. Kievan Rus' arose as a state in the 9th century, and in 988, it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
