Surgut (Russian: Сургут soor-GOOT) is the largest city in Khantia-Mansia, the unofficial capital of oil-extraction of Russia.
Understand
[edit]While not the administrative capital of Khanty-Mansia, 300,000-strong Surgut is the largest city in the region, which is atypical in Russia. A growing population is the other distinctive feature of this city.
Geography
[edit]The city is in the north of Western Siberia at the right bank of the river Ob, 250 km east of Khanty-Mansiysk and 708 km north-east of Tyumen.
Climate
[edit]Climate-wise Surgut belongs to the Extreme North zone, winter lasts for seven months. The average temperature of January is −20.9 °C. July averages on +17.4 °C.
Get in
[edit]By train
[edit]Direct train from Tyumen (#939) and Nizhnevartovsk (#952).
By plane
[edit]Domestic flights from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, Tyumen, Khanty-Mansiysk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Ufa, Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd.
International flights from Baku and Kyiv, including charter ones from Bangkok and Hurghada.
By boat
[edit]The river port doesn't serve passenger transportation.
Get around
[edit]See
[edit]- 1 Surgut Art Museum (Сургутский художественный музей), ul. 30 let Pobedy 21/2, ☏ +7 346 2516808. Opened in 1992 and built up from scratch this museum hosts both a permanent exhibition of the region art and culture as well as several rotating exhibitions on modern art.
- 2 Holy Transfiguration Cathedral (Собор в честь Преображения Господня), ul. Melik-Karamova, 76/1.
- Historical-cultural center "Old Surgut".
- Museum of regional studies.
Do
[edit]Buy
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[edit]Sleep
[edit]- Sweet Sleep Hostel&Hotel, Ulitsa Dzerzhinskogo, 7/1. +7 800 775-50-90. Just a low-key hostel with kitchen, etc.
Connect
[edit]Go next
[edit]- Tundrino - old Russian village with 19th-century church.
- Lyantor - village of Khanti of Pim river. You will see the museum and ethnic park with traditional Khanti habitats.