Naryan-Mar
Naryan-Mar is the capital of Nenetsia, located on the Pechorin River. It is the largest town in Nenetsia and serves as a "hub" for the surrounding area as well as a principal river port, sea port, and airport. Due to its strategic location and booming oil business, the city has developed rapidly in the last few years and has reached some of the highest living standards in Russia.
This has also led to a price-hike and tourists should bear in mind that prices are well above average compared to other towns. Still, Naryan-Mar retains many features of a true frontier town.
Get in
By boat
When the Pechora River is not frozen (mid-July to mid-October), passenger ships run between Pechora, in the Komi Republic and Naryan Mar.
By plane
Flights (rest assured, non-daily) arrive from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, and Arkhangelsk.
Get around
Naryan-Mar may be the largest town in Nenetsia, but that just is not that big—all that there is to see can be seen easily on foot within an hour or two.
See
- 1 Naryan-Mar post office. The town's symbol is a large and beautiful, almost Victorian-looking, wooden post office.
- An Orthodox Church
- WWII memorial
- The town harbor
Do
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Sleep
- 1 Zapolyarnaya Stolitsa (Заполярная столица), ul. Lenina 33B, ☏ +8 81853 49900, info@zsthotel.ru. Newly-built business hotel, and probably the best in town, with nice rooms and on-site restaurant serving hearty Russian cuisine. Rooms from 5400 RUB.
- 2 67 parallel (Гостиница 67 параллель), Polyarnaya st. 7, ☏ +7 81853 46954, 67parallel@inbox.ru. The hotel is located in five minutes of a foot walk from the center of Naryan-Mar – on Polyarnaya Street the house 7. From windows of hotel "67th parallel" the magnificent view to Naryan-Mar opens. The hotel has own parking. Our guests appreciate hotel the high level of service and a convenient arrangement in the city. All most important sights of Naryan-Mar – within walking distance. To the river station and the coast of Big Pechora only five hundred meters. Rooms from 3000RUB.