Sovetsky (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug) is a rather young city. In 2017, he will turn 55 years old. It is located in the far north of Russia. In 1962 it was created as a village for workers of the timber industry enterprise under construction. Soviet today is a city in the Tyumen region.
Where is located
The city of Soviet Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug is located in the center of the West Siberian Plain. Its entire territory stretches in the zone of taiga forests, where pine, fir, cedar, spruce and larch species predominate. There are areas where taiga is very boggy. Pine forests alternate with dark coniferous, growing in wetlands. Forests are rich in taiga vegetation and berries: cloudberries, raspberries, cranberries, currants, blueberries, blueberries.
The closest city to the Soviet Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug is located to the city of Yugorsk - only 15 km, the distance to Khanty-Mansiysk is 367 kilometers. Other nearby cities are removed at a considerable distance: Nizhny Tagil - 583 km, Yekaterinburg - 725 km, Tyumen - 1039 km.
History of education
The post-war years of the Soviet Union was a time of intensive construction, restoration of cities, industrial enterprises and further development of the country, which needed a forest. The main stake was placed on the endless taiga open spaces of the Tyumen region and specifically on the Khanty-Mansiysk District. In 1957, the laying of the railway connecting the Urals with the Ob basin began.
It was this factor that predetermined the construction of the timber industry enterprise, and with it the village where the workers lived. The railway solved the main problem - transportation of wood. The foundation of the village occurred in 1962, when a detachment of builders in the amount of 50 people landed on the undeveloped territory of the future settlement. Initially, nine houses were built, a year later the number of inhabitants of the village of Sovetsky Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug totaled 1.5 thousand.
At the end of the summer of 1963, the Ob – Ivdel railway passed near the village. This accelerated the development of the Soviet village. Already in January of that year, he was officially declared a working village, its executive body, the Council of Deputies, was created.
Thanks to an advanced enterprise - the timber industry enterprise - the village was rapidly developing. After a year of its existence, three streets were built. In 1965, schools were opened: an eight-year-old and a school for working youth. Two years later, a kindergarten and a public library were built.
Village Development
The Soviet logging village of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug grew rapidly. Much attention was paid to the development of its infrastructure. The construction of a clinic, school, kindergarten and club attracted here young people who wanted to not only try taiga romance, but dream of creating their own families. The population growth, although it increased in large part due to the arrival of new workers, but in the village there were indigenous people who were born here.
In 1968, the population was a little less than 6 thousand people. The Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR adopted a decree on the approval of the Soviet region of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug. It included the working villages of Sovetsky, Pionersky and Komsomolsky. The significance of the region for the country can be explained by the fact that in the same year Sovetsky Airport was commissioned as the base unit of the Tyumen air squad. Here, mainly helicopters were based, with the help of which communication was made with remote settlements.
Post-soviet period
Surprising as it may seem, the post-Soviet period, which painfully hit the industrial regions of the Russian North, where many towns and cities turned into “ghosts”, having lost a significant part of the population that was leaving for the mainland, practically did not affect the population of the Soviet Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (a photo of this region you see in the article). The number of inhabitants continued to grow, and in 1996 it amounted to 20,000.
In the same year, a decision was made to classify the village of Sovetskiy as a city of regional significance. The city of Yugorsk is removed from the Sovetsky District and assigned to the cities of district significance.
Soviet city
The modern city of the Soviet Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra - continues to grow and develop. Dozens of kindergartens and schools have been built. SC "Olympus" is the pride of the Soviet, who became famous throughout the world for his students, Olympic and world champions in skiing and biathlon. These are E. Dementiev, O. Melnik, D. Ustyuzhanin, S. Vatinov and A. Dotov, swimmers A. Spiridonov and T. Andreikina.
The city has its own heroes - this is A. Buzin, who was posthumously awarded the honorary title of Hero of Russia for completing a responsible mission, courage and heroism.
The city is still growing. In 2016, its population was 29 thousand people. By ethnic composition, the majority of the city's inhabitants are Russians (86%), Ukrainians make up 5%, Tatars - 1.6%, Bashkirs - more than 1.5%, Belarusians - about 1.5%.
Many social enterprises have been built: shops, cafes, household enterprises. Particular attention is paid to the construction of apartment buildings, which are built exclusively of stone. Dozens of well-maintained playgrounds delight little townspeople.
Industry and transport
All the large enterprises of the Soviet, one way or another, are associated with wood and woodworking. It produces furniture, wooden panels (glued), furniture veneer, sets of prefabricated houses made of wood, which are made at the factory. Food enterprises and construction organizations work.
There is an airport in Sovetskoye whose planes fly to Moscow, Yekaterinburg, Tyumen, Beloyarsk, and St. Petersburg. Not far from the city is Verkhnekondinskaya station, which lies on the line connecting the Ural region and Priobye. Two concrete roads Sovetsk – Taiga through Yugorsk, Sovetsk – Urai were built.