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Surgut

Country:
Russian Federation
State:
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
City:
Surgut
Type of Location:
Multiple
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How to Reach

By Air

Surgut Airport (IATA: SGC, ICAO: USRR), also listed as Surgut North Airport, is an airport in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia located 10 km (6 mi) north of Surgut.It services medium-sized airliners.In 2008 Surgut Airport handled 1,013,179 passengers.

By Train

The Tyumen–Novy Urengoy railway line passes near the city.Going towards Tyumen, the next station is Salym, where Royal Dutch Shell has a substantial development.Surgut pass through the train to the east (in Noyabrsk Tarko Sale, Nizhnevartovsk) to the southwest (in Tobolsk, Tyumen).Center of rail Surgut is the main railway station of the city - Surgut station.The building of the railway station Surgut built in 1988, its total area - 5900 square meters. m.The complex includes: ticket hall, 2 waiting rooms, lounges for passengers, a restaurant and a luggage compartment.

By Ferry

This is a major transportation hub and one located in the Middle Ob in Khanty-Mansiysk.The second largest in the Ob-Irtysh Shipping Company.In the years of rapid development of the region in Surgut river port delivered a heavy bulky equipment for power plant, oil fields, millions of tons of cargo for numerous construction projects.

By Bus

Suburban bus service from the bus station in Surgut implemented in various areas of the city and county.Also in Surgut was built the first cable-stayed bridge across the Ob River.Its length is 2110 meters.It has a height of 149 meters pylon and 130 guy attached to it.Start of operation - 2000.

Key places to visit
Surgut Music and Drama Theatre, Surgut Art Museum, Surgut Museum of Local Lore, Transfiguration Cathedral

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Places to Visit

Surgut Music and Drama Theatre

is located in the city of Surgut in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug.Create a professional theater in the heart of one of the largest cultural centers in Western Siberia was needed ten years ago.The city acquired the official status of the people who came to the time for development of oil and gas fields have remained in the city forever.Creating cultural space, forming a harmoniously developed personality surgutyanina - was the most important task of the Surgut Music and Drama Theatre.His first season with the Surgut theater began September 4, 2000.The first of the acting troupe, typed in 1996, was prepared by the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts (GITIS).Director of the theater since its inception is the Honored Worker of Culture of Russia Tamara Lychkataya.Creative leadership provides the main theater director, a graduate of RATA - Vladimir Matiychenko. February 22 Surgut theater celebrated its first 10 years.Theatre today - a separate building with an auditorium for 600 people on the street Griboedova 12.

Surgut Art Museum

The Museum was founded in 1994.Its mission is to encourage and develop the creative, aesthetic and spiritual interest of its visitors as well as to assist them with their understanding of visual art.The Museum doesn't have any permanent exhibitions because its management considers rotating exhibits from various artistic and cultural projects to be more effective.Two of these projects were considered in Open society Institute contest and were awarded grants.For the development of the single-piece exhibition "Odin's Steel" museum was awarded the Firste prize of the Second International Museum Biennale (Krasnoyarsk, 1997).The Museum's activity includes not only collecting, studying and displaying artifacts but also the restitution program of unique collections of medieval bronze artifacts, taken away from the region.The Museum coordinates activities on the conservation of ruined monuments of historical and cultural heritage and studies the culture of the region's indigenous people.

Surgut Museum of Local Lore

The Museum was founded on the 30th of November in 1963 as a museum on public principles.It is one of the oldest city establishments in sphere of culture with a long-term operational experience in the field of study of local lore.The founder of a Museum was the Veteran of the Great Patriotic War and Labour, the Honourable citizen of Surgut city, Deserved art worker in Russia Pokazanyev Flegont Yakovlevich. Municipal establishment of culture "Surgut Museum of Local Lore" is a leading museum in Khanty-Mansy Autonomous District-Yugra.All museum activity is focused on preservation, studying and popularization of the historic and cultural heritage and expansion of the museum communications behind frameworks of city and district.The Surgut Museum of Local Lore represents uniqueness of regional culture, history and nature, results of interaction of various cultures on region territory, a place and a role of Surgut and the Surgut territory near by the Ob River in history of Russia.Mission of a Museum is realized through various forms of interaction with the visitor.All educational activity of the Surgut Museum of Local Lore is built on a line of presentation of the collections according to a paradigm of subject knowledge, with reference to interests and needs of visitors.The main purpose of the Surgut Museum of Local Lore is not an abstract education and familiarizing with achievements of a science and culture, but the development of a heritage for self-realization of the person in modern society.The visitor for a museum is an interlocutor and the partner and exhibits - means of a dialogue.

Transfiguration Cathedral

the main temple of the city of Surgut and one of the most beautiful temples of the Khanty-Mansiysk region.For the construction of the temple was was chosen place near a river.Next to the monastery planted cedars, specially brought from the Altai.The first pile was blocked in May 1992.Money for the construction of Surgut collected all the world: helping oilmen, businessmen, part of the money was transferred from the city treasury.Surgut Transfiguration Church was designed by architects in Moscow in the form of a cross, its area - 3800 square meters.This architectural masterpiece has no equal in the area of beauty and grandeur.At the church installed the most largest bell in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - he weighs 6 tons.The smallest bell weighs 8 kg. The bells were cast for Surgut shrines in Moscow.Most of the bells nominal, established by donations from parishioners.Construction of the temple was completed in 2002.At Sunday, December 29, 2002, a solemn ceremony of the transfer of new church of the Transfiguration to Orthodox community.23 September 2003 in Surgut ceremony of consecration of the church of the Transfiguration. Temple consecrated Archbishop of Tobolsk and Tyumen Dimitri Blessing of Water.The event was participated chorus Tobolsk Theological Seminary and Municipal Choir of Light "of the city of Surgut.Recently in Surgut at Transfiguration Church has opened a new building of the Orthodox high school a three-storey building with an area more than 1,5 thousand square meters.Orthodox high school has existed for about 8 years.Here is trained over a hundred teenagers.In addition to classes in the new building are iisportivny assembly halls, a spacious dining room.

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October - March
April - August

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