Add to favorite
 
russian visa
    Ukhta

Ukhta is a Russian town located in the southern part of Timan Ridge, in the valley of River Ukhta and its inflow Chibyyu (the basin of Pechora), 333 km to the northeast of Syktyvkar. It is a railway station.

The town with the overall area of 13261 sq km has the population of 121.7 thousand people.

It is the town with the second largest population after Syktyvkar in the Komi Republic.

History of Ukhta

Oil sources on River Ukhta near the modern town were known as far back as in the 17th century. In the mid 19th century the industrialist M.K. Sidorov drilled one of Russia's first oil wells near Ukhta. At the end of the 19th - beginning of the 20th centuries private firms and an expedition of the Mining Department of the State Property Ministry were engaged in oil searches in pool of the Ukhta River. In 1920-21 oil field industry existed as a cottage craft there.

In 1929 a prospecting expedition founded the Chibyya Settlement at the confluence of River Chibyyu into River Ukhta. In 1938 it became an industrial community. In 1939 the settlement was renamed into Ukhta. It became Ukhta town in 1943.

The river name Ukhta has an ancient Finno-Ugric origin; wide dissemination of the names Ukhta and its version Okhta in the names of rivers of the North of the European part of Russia testifies to it. Apparently, there existed the term “Ukhta meaning “a river, a channel.

Till 1953 Ukhta was mostly constructed by prisoners of the GULAG system.

Culture

The state museum Earth Nature, Oil and Gas Museum with Y. Krems’ office, the Ukhta Local History Museum, and Ukhto-Pechorsky Memorial.



Tags: Ukhta Komi Republic    


Region:


City:






Comment on our site


RSS   twitter      submit


Ïàðòåð


Ukhta
  (Komi Republic)

Cities of the region

    Syktyvkar
    Vorkuta
    Inta
    Usinsk


TAGS:
Exhibitions in Moscow  St. Petersburg  Krasnoyarsk  transfer to Kaliningrad Airport  Children's Books  Moscow Museums  Norilsk Nickel  Russian Cinema  Moscow tourism  Bolshoi Theatre  Russian business  Modern Art  Natural Science Exhibitions  Moscow skyscrapers   Moscow  ENEA  Vologda Oblast  Russian Chanson  Central Bank  Educational Tourism  Russian economy  odd news  Perm Territory  Russian cities  Russian opera singers  Russian tourism  Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia  Vaccines  Koryakia  Chukotka  Moscow Zoo  North Caucasus  Opposition  Russian tourists  immigrant  Russian scientists  Kuban State University   Russian science  AIDS  Suzdal  Nikolai Karachentsov   Russian sportswomen  Kalashnikov Gun  Boris Panteleymonov  Russian musicians  Russian taxation  St. Patrick's Day and Night  iPhone 6  Sculpture  Anton Nosik 


Travel Blogs
Top Traveling Sites