Kogalym is a Russian city in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area. It is a railway station on the line Surgut — Novy Urengoy.
The basic infrastructure of the LUKOIL JSC, in particular, its main branch LUKOIL-West Siberia JSC is located in Kogalym.
From 1991 to 1993 Sergey Sobyanin was the mayor of Kogalym.
The city is located in the territory of the Surgut Region of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area between the rivers Inga-Yagun and Kirill-Vysjyagun. The city with the population of 62 191 people takes the area of 20,5 sq km.
The city of Kogalym is equated to the region of the Far North.
The city's major oil and gas extraction enterprise LUKOIL-West Siberia JSC is part of the LUKOIL corporation. Vagit Alekperov, the president of the Lukoil company took leading posts in the oil-extracting enterprises of Kogalym from 1983 to 1990.