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32-674: Surgut (Russian: Сургу́т , IPA: [sʊrˈgut] ; Khanty : Сәрханӆ, Sərhanł, Сө̆ркут, sörkut ) is a city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug , Russia , located on the Ob River near its junction with the Irtysh River . It is one of the few cities in Russia to be larger than the capital or the administrative center of its federal subject in terms of population, economic activity, and tourist traffic. The population as per

64-521: A continental subarctic climate ( Köppen climate classification Dfc ), with long, frigid winters and short, warm summers. Precipitation is moderate, and is higher from May to October, during which rain is more frequent than in the rest of the year, when snow is more frequent. The annual snow cover gets thicker than further east in Siberia due to lesser influence of the Siberian High , and some moisture from

96-468: A quarter for bachelors and a pound and a half for married couples). The inhabitants were supplied with weapons and ammunition. At the end of the 19th century (according to the census of 1897), the population of Surgut was 1100 people. The main occupations of the inhabitants were fishing, gathering of wild plants, trade, cattle breeding, and firewood harvesting. In 1835 the Cossack school was founded, and in 1877 –

128-648: A silver tail end, walking along the azure land", was approved on November 20, 2003, by decision of the city duma on November 4, 2003. Surgut is twinned with: Khanty language The Khanty language has many dialects . The western group includes the Obdorian , Ob , and Irtysh dialects. The eastern group includes the Surgut and Vakh - Vasyugan dialects, which, in turn, are subdivided into thirteen other dialects. All these dialects differ significantly from each other by phonetic , morphological , and lexical features to

160-521: Is a port on the Ob River . As of 2021, the ethnic composition of Surgut was: As of July 1, 2016, there are 54 preschools, 5 private kindergartens, 33 schools, 3 gymnasiums and 4 lyceums in Surgut. The system of additional education includes 4 music schools, a children's choreography school, an art school, 2 art studios, 10 foreign language schools (one of the schools is an English-style Big Ben), 8 children's and youth sports schools, and others. Surgut has

192-412: Is an administrative division of a federal subject of Russia which is equal in status to a district but is organized around a large city ; occasionally with surrounding rural territories. According to the 1993 Constitution of Russia , the administrative-territorial structure of the federal subjects is not identified as the responsibility of the federal government or as the joint responsibility of

224-436: Is not a part of it. As an administrative division, it is incorporated separately as the city of okrug significance of Surgut —an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts . As a municipal division , the city of okrug significance of Surgut is incorporated as Surgut Urban Okrug . The city is home to the largest port on the Ob River , the largest road/railway junction in northwest Siberia, and two of

256-599: The Cyrillic alphabet (with the additional letter ⟨ң⟩ for /ŋ/ ) from 1937. Khanty literary works are usually written in three Northern dialects, Kazym , Shuryshkar , and Middle Ob. Newspaper reporting and broadcasting are usually done in the Kazym dialect. Khanty is divided in three main dialect groups, which are to a large degree mutually unintelligible , and therefore best considered three languages: Northern, Southern and Eastern. Individual dialects are named after

288-773: The adverbial participle which is -va (-ve) today but used to be -ván (-vén) . Note also the regularity of [xot]-[haːz] "house" and [sot]-[saːz] "hundred". ɬʉβət miːnɐt miːntem minɐti məŋɐti niŋɐti nʉŋɐtenɐ nʉŋɐtijɐ ɬʉβɐtinɐ ɬʉβɐtɐ miːntemɐ niːnɐtenɐ niːnɐtijɐ ɬiːnɐtinɐ məŋɐtemɐ nəŋɐtenɐ nəŋɐtijɐ ɬəɣɐtinɐ mɐːnə, mɐːnnə mɐːn nʉŋnə nʉŋən, nʉŋn ɬʉβɐtinə ɬʉβnə, ɬʉβən miːntemnə miːnnə, miːnən niːnən ɬiːnɐtinnə ɬiːnnə, ɬiːnən məŋɐtinnə məŋnə, məŋən nəŋən, niŋnə ɬəɣɐtinnə ɬəɣnə, ɬəɣən mɐːni nʉŋɐteni nʉŋi ɬʉβɐtini ɬʉβɐti, ɬʉβi miːntemi miːnɐti, miːni niːnɐteni niːni ɬiːnɐtini ɬiːnɐti, ɬiːni məŋɐtini məŋɐti, məŋi City of federal subject significance City of federal subject significance

320-406: The 1960s, when it became a center of oil and gas production. On June 25, 1965, the work settlement of Surgut was granted town status. The city's holiday is celebrated annually on June 12. The Surgut Bridge is the longest one-tower cable-stayed bridge in the world. Within the framework of administrative divisions , it serves as the administrative center of Surgutsky District , even though it

352-618: The 250 largest industrial centers of Russia. The city is served by the Surgut International Airport , which offers flights to Moscow , St. Petersburg , Dubai , Irkutsk , and a number of other cities. Through Surgut run trains to the east (in Novy Urengoy , Nizhnevartovsk ), and to the south-west (in Tyumen , Moscow , Novosibirsk , Ufa , Chelyabinsk , Yekaterinburg ). Road P-404 connects Surgut with Tyumen . There

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384-523: The Khanty varieties is the reflexation of the lateral consonants, *ɬ (from Proto-Uralic *s and *š) and *l (from Proto-Uralic *l and *ð). These generally merge, however with varying results: /l/ in the Obdorsk and Far Eastern dialects, /ɬ/ in the Kazym and Surgut dialects, and /t/ elsewhere. The Vasjugan dialect still retains the distinction word-initially, having instead shifted *ɬ > /j/ in this position. Similarly,

416-431: The basis of the fish section, the first industrial enterprise was created – the fish canning factory. In 1929 a collective farm was organized, in 1930 – a forest site, and in 1931 – a timber enterprise. In the 1930s in Surgut, attempts were made to extract minerals. October 23, 1934 was the publication date of Surgut's first newspaper – the "Organizer" (today, the "Surgut Tribune"). Rapid urbanization of Surgut took place in

448-481: The city of Surgut ranked 2nd in terms of the socioeconomic development of the municipalities of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug – Ugra in the field of "Physical Culture and Sport", and ranked 3rd in terms of the effectiveness of the use of sports facilities among the municipalities of the district. Sport Club: The modern coat of arms of Surgut, featuring "in the golden field – a black fox with

480-514: The city, is the second-largest gas-fired power station in the world. In Surgut, Tyumen Energy Retail Company, the region's largest energy sales company, is Tyumen's guaranteeing supplier of electric power. It ranks first in terms of the value of the productive supply of electricity among the energy distribution companies of the Urals Federal District, and second among the energy sales companies in Russia. The management office of OJSC TESS,

512-573: The development of original *č similarly to a sibilant /ʂ/ (= UPA: š ) in Northern Khanty, partly also in Southern Khanty. The nominal suffixes include dual -ŋən , plural -(ə)t , dative -a , locative / instrumental -nə . For example: Singular, dual, and plural possessive suffixes may be added to singular, dual, and plural nouns, in three persons, for 3 = 27 forms. A few, from məs "cow", are: The personal pronouns are, in

544-689: The end of the century there were 185 inhabitants in Surgut. Since 1782, the county town of the Surgut district of the Tobolsk province had been formed. In 1785, the city's coat of arms was approved. At the end of the 18th century, in connection with the development of southern Siberian cities, it lost its administrative significance. Since 1868 – district, and since 1898 – the county town of Tobolsk province. The inhabitants of Surgut, like other Siberians, were on state security. Servants annually received money (5 rubles and 25 kopecks), bread (8 quarters for bachelors and 11 quarters for married couples) and salt (a pound and

576-508: The extent that the three main "dialects" (northern, southern and eastern) are mutually unintelligible. Thus, based on their significant multifactorial differences, Eastern, Northern and Southern Khanty could be considered separate but closely related languages. The Khanty written language was first created after the October Revolution on the basis of the Latin script in 1930 and then with

608-439: The federal government and the federal subjects. This state of the matters is traditionally interpreted by the governments of the federal subjects as a sign that the matters of the administrative-territorial divisions are the sole responsibility of the federal subjects themselves. As a result, the modern administrative-territorial structures of the federal subjects vary significantly from one federal subject to another; that includes

640-459: The humid European winters reaching across the Ural Mountains . Surgut is the largest city in the world with a subarctic climate . Sport and recreation complexes "Friendship", "Fakel", and "Neftyanik" are known far beyond the city limits, as they hold high-level sports competitions. In 2006, they added the multi-functional sports complex "Sparta", beginning construction of its stadium. In 2009,

672-475: The largest enterprise of the Urals Federal District, is located in the city. It operates in the sphere of complex service maintenance, overhaul, and reconstruction of electric power facilities. In addition, Surgut is home to many factories: gas processing, condensate stabilization, and motor fuel production. The dairy, meat processing, timber, and building materials industries (mainly for the production of reinforced concrete structures) are also important. In 2013,

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704-482: The last four Russian censuses: 396,443 ( 2021 Census ) ; 306,675 ( 2010 Census ) ; 285,027 ( 2002 Census ) ; 247,823 ( 1989 Soviet census ) . It was founded in 1594 by order of Tsar Feodor I . Surgut at the end of the 16th century was a small fortress with two gates and five towers, one of which had a carriageway . In 1596 the Gostiny Dvor was built. In the 17th and 18th centuries it

736-420: The manner in which the cities of federal subject significance are organized and the choice of a term to refer to such entities. In the federal subjects which have closed administrative-territorial formations , those are often given a similar status. Occasionally, this status is also given to the areas organized around the inhabited localities which are not cities, but smaller urban-type settlements . As of 2013,

768-465: The men's folk school. The women's parochial school also began operation, along with a weather station in 1878, the library-reading room, the people's house, and since 1913, the telegraph. Since November 3, 1923, the city has been the administrative center of the Tobolsk district of the Ural region. Since April 5, 1926, due to the small population of 1300, Surgut was transformed into a district village. In 1928, on

800-407: The nominative case: The cases of ma are accusative manət and dative manəm . The demonstrative pronouns and adjectives are: Basic interrogative pronouns are: Khanty numerals, compared with Hungarian and Finnish, are: The formation of multiples of ten shows Slavic influence in Khanty, whereas Hungarian uses the collective derivative suffix -van (-ven) closely related to the suffix of

832-554: The palatalized lateral *ľ developed to /lʲ/ in Far Eastern and Obdorsk, /ɬʲ/ in Kazym and Surgut, and /tʲ/ elsewhere. The retroflex lateral *ḷ remains in Far Eastern, but in /t/-dialects develops into a new plain /l/. Other dialect isoglosses include the development of original *ć to a palatalized stop /tʲ/ in Eastern and Southern Khanty, but to a palatalized sibilant /sʲ ~ ɕ/ in Northern, and

864-431: The rivers they are or were spoken on. Southern Khanty is probably extinct by now. A general feature of all Khanty varieties is that while long vowels are not distinguished, a contrast between plain vowels (e.g. /o/ ) vs. reduced or extra-short vowels (e.g. /ŏ/ ) is found. This corresponds to an actual length distinction in Khanty's close relative Mansi . According to scholars who posit a common Ob-Ugric ancestry for

896-464: The two, this was also the original Proto-Ob-Ugric situation. Palatalization of consonants is phonemic in Khanty, as in most other Uralic languages. Retroflex consonants are also found in most varieties of Khanty. Khanty word stress is usually on the initial syllable. 19 consonants are reconstructed for Proto-Khanty, listed with the traditional UPA transcription shown above and an IPA transcription shown below. A major consonant isogloss among

928-408: The village there were special buildings – handicraft workshops, in particular, a smithy. By the name list of 1625 there were 222 servicemen living here. Subsequently, due to high mortality, the population of Surgut gradually decreased. In 1627 it was home to 216 people, which shrank to 200 in 1635, and 199 in 1642. In the second half of the 17th century the population fluctuated around 200 people, and by

960-510: The volume of shipped goods, work performed, and services by large and medium-sized producers of industrial products amounted to 100.7 billion rubles.[47] The structure of industrial production by types of economic activity in 2013: "Production and distribution of electricity, gas and water" – 87.8%; "Extraction of minerals" – 6.7%; "Processing industries" – 5.5%. The average monthly salary (for large and medium-sized organizations) in 2013 amounted to 68.7 thousand rubles. Surgut ranks third out of

992-563: The world's most powerful power plants, the SDPP-1 (State District Power Plant 1) and SDPP-2 (State District Power Plant 2) , which produce over 7,200 megawatts and supply most of the region with relatively cheap electricity. Surgut's economy is tied to oil production (the city is known as "The Oil Capital of Russia") and natural gas processing. The most important enterprises are the oil firm Surgutneftegaz and Surgutgazprom (a unit of Gazprom ). The Surgut-2 Power Station , providing energy for

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1024-462: Was a center of the Russian development of Siberia. The fortification, built of strong wood, was located on the cape, so that it was impossible to approach it unnoticed either from the river or from the land. In the central square of the ancient settlement there was a cult shrine. Along the perimeter, the fortress was surrounded by a moat, which was blocked by the structures of the defensive system. Outside

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