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  Salekhard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Salekhard (Russian: Салеха́рд) is a town in and the administrative center of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia.
It is believed to be the only town in the world that is located right on the Polar circle.
It was renamed Salekhard in 1933 and granted a town status in 1938.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salekhard   (180 words)

  
 Salekhard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Salekhard, the YNAO's administrative centre, lies on the bank of the River Poluy, a tributary of the R.Ob'.
In 1933 it was renamed Salekhard and in 1938 it received town status.
Salekhard is linked to the outside world by direct flights to Moscow and other towns within the YNAO and Tyumenskaya Oblast'.
www.geocities.com /benselig/pic3sal.html   (271 words)

  
 Salekhard
Salekhard is changing with a remarkable speed; e.g., just two years ago, it was mostly comprised of 1-2 story wooden houses, whereas today it boasts many architecturally eclectic high-rise apartments of lively colors built by hardy Canadian and Turkish workers.
In the local Nenets language, it means "a settlement on the cape," that is a "capetown." The Russians started arriving in the 16th century, having established the outpost of Obdosrk and forcing the indigenous reindeer-herding Nenets people, who didn't want to pay the tribute, into the inhospitable tundra areas further North.
Today Salekhard is the capital of Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region and the population is mostly Russian.
www.cinetrance.com /salekhard.htm   (140 words)

  
 Salekhard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Salekhard with a population of 29,6 thousand, a centre of the Yamalo-Nenetsky region, is located on on the right bank of the Ob river.
Salekhard was founded in 1595 as Cossack fortress and was named Obdorsk.
Salekhard acquired its name in 1933 and was raised into the status of a town in 1938.
www.tourintel.ru /online/gettowndescription.asp?id=322   (93 words)

  
 Russian Bride Guide
Salekhard is an administrative centre of Yamalo-Nenetsky autonomous district, a member of the Union of the historical cities of Russia.
Salekhard is the cultural centre both of the Yamal old residents and native northern peoples.
Salekhard turns to a capital of the chief gas and petroleum territory, an administrative centre of the region - an important transport, business and financial centre.
www.russianbrideguide.com /about_russia/cities/Salekhard.shtml   (405 words)

  
 70 лет ЯНАО
During long time he worked in Yamal as a scientific employee of agricultural experimental station, the correspondent of the newspaper "Tyumen Komsomolets", the director of the state farm, the leader of the group of inspectors on agriculture, the deputy of the editor of the Area's newspaper "Krasniy Sever" (the red north).
Vasiliy Samburov is the artist from the town Salekhard- the true knight of the North, who loves nature, history, and traditions of the northern land.
Khabecha Yaungad was born in the Arctic tundra.
www.yamal.org /yanao70/kult/all_list_e.htm   (974 words)

  
 ChessBase.com - Chess News - Chess on the Arctic Circle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
That is the case for Salekhard (or Salegard), where ten teams are playing — with all participants required to be under 17 years of age, and one under ten.
The International Youth Chess Tournament “The Arctic Cup” is being held for the second time in Salekhard, Russia, at the initiative of Yury Neelov, who is the Governor of the Yamal-Nenets and also the President of the Yamal-Nenets Chess Federation.
Salekhard is the only city situated on the Arctic circle.
www.chessbase.com /newsdetail.asp?newsid=2696   (513 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
CWNews.org – SALEKHARD, Russia -- Siberia is one of the coldest and most desolate regions on earth.
And in January it went to Siberia, the Arctic north, in the region of Yamal, to the city of Salekhard, where 10 years ago, there were no churches.
Salekhard is located 150 miles inside the Arctic Circle.
www.cbn.com /CBNNews/CWN/022704siberia.asp   (672 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Ob River   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Ob is ice-bound at southern Barnaul from early in November to near the end of April, and at northern Salekhard, 100 miles above its mouth, from the end of October to the beginning of June.
Salekhard Coat of Arms Salekhard is an administrative center of Yamalia.
Notable rivers of Russia in Europe are the Volga, Don, Kama, Oka and the Northern Dvina, while several other rivers originate in Russia but flow into other countries, such as the Dniepr and the Western Dvina.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Ob-River   (1791 words)

  
 "The Dead road"
It was decided - to replace the main port of the Northern Sea Route of Ob to Igarka on the river Yenisey and to start building the railroad from Ob to Yenisey - Salekhard-Igarka with the perspective of its continuation to the East.
"To start" then was understood in real sense of it: on the 29th of January of 1949 the Governmental revision was established, and already in February of the same year the deputy of the minister, the general-colonel V.V.Chernyshov went to the town Salekhard to inspect the course of building work.
It was said, "to build the road", it meant "to build!" Our researching group went to the edge of the settlement, found in tundra the proper ground about 1,5 kilometers, and fixed the table "The ground of the future station Salekhard".
www.yamal.org /501/doc/1_e.htm   (581 words)

  
 Personal Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Salekhard is located on the Arctic Circle and is home to about 30,000 people.
Salekhard is the capital of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region.
Some of the homes in contemporary Salekhard were used by the camps as living quarters for guards.
www.msu.edu /~herrone2/personal.htm   (554 words)

  
 Kommersant - Russia's Daily Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The capital is the city of Salekhard (formerly known as Obdorsk), which celebrated its 400th anniversary in 1995.
The Yamalo-Nenets National Area, with its center in Obdorsk (later Salekhard), was formed in December 1930 by a resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK).
An experimental farm station was established in Salekhard in 1933; and fur farming (silver and blue fox and mink) began in 1936.
www.kommersant.com /tree.asp?rubric=5&node=373&doc_id=-30   (3131 words)

  
 Salekhard - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The bankruptcy hearing is scheduled for March 11 at the Salekhard Arbitration Court.
Salekhard is in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district, a Gazprom stronghold rich in natural gas reserves.
Salekhard is in the Yamal-Nenetsk Autonomous District, a Gazprom stronghold rich in natural-gas reserves.
www.highbeam.com /ref/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:Salekhar   (298 words)

  
 Salekhard Travel Information | RUSSIA - SIBERIA | TRAVEL GUIDE
I got fooled the first time believing that the 50 Rubel would take me all the way to Salekhard, arriving at the ferry and realizing that it was not the case I decided to continue by foot.
On the other side of the river passes the citybus around midnight that will take you back to the Salekhard city center for 30 Rubel and to the airport (which is close to Hotel Ob and Sibir) for 15 Rubel.
Because of the local time difference with Moscow the train arrives at 22:00 local time so you better hurry up a little to be able the bus because it is the last one until next morning.
www.hansrossel.com /travel-information/russia-siberia/salekhard.htm   (1356 words)

  
 Arctic Peoples Alert
On Wednesday the entire day in Salekhard was spent discussing the problems of the North.
When the decision was being made as to where the president shall go, Salekhard rated higher than Yakutsk and other northern towns due to its modern infrastructure good roads and comfortable hotels.
The word “Yamal” translated from the Nenets means “the edge of the world” and it is here at this very “edge” where the process of finding a solution to the main problems in the country begin.
home.planet.nl /~innusupp/poetin.html   (2716 words)

  
 Peter Hambro Mining Acquisition
The nearest city is Salekhard which is 30km from the licence area.
Salekhard is the regional capital of the district and benefits from the revenue generated in the area from local oil and gas projects.
Salekhard also benefits from a highly developed infrastructure.
www.advfn.com /news_acquisition_7298468.html   (621 words)

  
 NEWS - Information agency SEVER-PRES. Salekhard
The films about life of the ethnic minorities of the Arctic region, their culture and mentality, minimally influenced by the modern civilization, will be presented in the frames of the festival.
The initiative group of the Journalists Council appealed to the Representative office of the Okrug in Saint-Petersburg with the idea of conducting the press-tour in Yamal, which was supported by the Administration of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
On the 18th of September the Administration of the town Salekhard will conduct the first auction on selling the right for concluding the contracts of rent of 8 sectors for building.
www.yamal.org /news/news_e/index.htm   (4706 words)

  
 Ice-Floe: Contributors by Language: Inuktitut, Italian, Karelian, Khanty, Mansi, Nanai, Nenets, Norwegian, Nynorsk, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Leonid Lapcij (1932-1982) was born in the village of Novy Port in the Yamal Peninsula.
Educated as a physician, he lived in Salekhard, Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Territory, where he worked as the editor of a territorial newspaper published in the Nenets language and in the territorial structures of the Communist Party.
Gennady Puyko, Nenets, was born in 1935 and is known primarily as a childern's poet.
www.icefloepress.org /countries5.shtml   (4119 words)

  
 Cruise Boot Ob Rivier | RUSLAND - SIBERIE | REISGIDS
Vertrek ship in Salekhard : er zijn 3 afvaarten van de Ob per maand in juni en september en 4 afvaarten per maand in juli en augustus.
Ferry reis reserveren : zie de telefoonnummers bij het reisverslag van Salekhard om de boottocht op de Ob rivier te reserveren.
In Salekhard moeten de tickets gekocht worden via een agentschap (telefoon 35177).
www.hansrossel.com /reizen-informatie/rusland-siberie/ob-rivier-boot.htm   (1046 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
From Khanty-Mansiisk we traveled by hydrofoil up the Ob River to Salekhard, with a stopover in Borosova, where we met with a Mansi woman, a friend of Aipin’s, who is in charge of local native affairs.
Unlike in Khanty-Mansiisk and Salekhard, where facilities and accommodations are surprisingly world class, Borosova is third world.
An enthusiastic group of 22 native authors, scholars, and educators attended the conference in Salekhard, where we received the commendation from Galina Shoporenkova, the Institute host.
www.onu.edu /icc/report.htm   (850 words)

  
 The King of the Werewolves
Stalin sent to Salekhard one of his most cunning agents, a werehyena from Tbilisi, to find the werewolf king, kill him, and bring his corpse back to Moscow.
This agent was also a necromancer who could read the breath of the dying in the night wind and draw echoes of a soul's last throes from the rocks and the grass.
The werewolf clan of Salekhard hunted as a pack, and the honor of the kill always belonged to the king.
www.youngstranger.com /king.html   (3872 words)

  
 Governor in Russian north and Putin upbeat on regional economic potential - Gateway To Russia - News From Russia
Salekhard, 29 April: Yuriy Neyelov, governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, today promised to submit dozens of new national-level projects to the country's leaders.
At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Salekhard, he said "there are dozens of projects which would benefit Russia".
The governor said the proposals would be presented to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade.
www.gateway2russia.com /st/art_232640.php   (661 words)

  
 Pravda.RU:Putin expects his visit to Salekhard to be substantiated by specific solutions
President Vladimir Putin has said his visit to Salekhard (capital of the Yamal-Nenets autonomy in North-western Siberia) will be substantiated by specific solutions to the problems facing Russia's northern areas.
We held routine meetings, which must be substantiated by administrative and legislative solutions," President Putin said in closing remarks at a meeting with representatives of Russia's northern peoples in Salekhard.
Mr Putin said Russia was a large country, which was facing a great many problems, while a variety of solutions was being advanced.
newsfromrussia.com /main/2004/04/29/53707_.html   (572 words)

  
 His Excellency John Ralston Saul Address Made Upon the Conferral of an Honorary Degree (Honoris Causa) Herzen State ...
Yesterday we were in Salekhard, where we had a chance to meet and to listen to members of the Nenet and the Hanti-Mansi Peoples.
We also experienced the exact opposite of that idea of history as a certainty when we were taken to Camp 501, a construction camp, outside of Salekhard.
Everyone who came with us from Salekhard spoke of the importance of remembering; of learning by remembering.
www.gg.ca /media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=4030   (1468 words)

  
 Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenets, Russia current local time from WorldTimeServer.com
This site specializes in keeping up with local laws and declarations that affect time zone rules and daylight saving time adjustments, so you can always depend on our accuracy.
A comprehensive list of other locations in addition to Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenets, Russia is also available which you can view current time by country name or by city name.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Yamalia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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Russian trappers and merchants came to the region that is now Yamalia in the 11th century, and it was incorporated into the Russian state in 1595 when a fort, called Obdorsk (today Salekhard), was built at the mouth of the Ob' River to house a military garrison.
Canada and the World Backgrounder: Focus: central Asia and the former Soviet Union: facts for students and educators
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Yamalia   (2115 words)

  
 Vladimir Putin has said his visit to Salekhard will be substantiated by specific solutions to the problems facing ...
Vladimir Putin has said his visit to Salekhard will be substantiated by specific solutions to the problems facing Russia's northern areas.
"I do not want today's and yesterday's meetings in Salekhard to be regarded as historic, as the search for specific solutions may, thereby, recede into the background.
We held routine meetings, which must be substantiated by administrative and legislative solutions," President Putin said in closing remarks at a meeting with representatives of Russia's northern peoples in Salekhard.
www.russiannewsroom.com /send.aspx?id=683   (545 words)

  
 salekhard - OneLook Dictionary Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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 Heat Wave Brings Fires To Yamal Tundra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Salekhard (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area) -- A heat wave in Russia's Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area, with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius, has triggered tundra fires in the region, sources from the local department for emergency situations told Itar-Tass on Friday.
They said six fires are registered on the Taz Peninsula at the present moment.
Dry thunders have become the main reason behind the fires.
www.fire.uni-freiburg.de /media/2005/news_20050815_ru.htm   (149 words)

  
 The Northern Forum - Event Details
The II International Wooden Sculpture Festival “Legends of the North” will be held in Salekhard, Yamalo-Nenets AO, Russia from August 30 – September 7, 2006.
The Festival is organized by the Department for Culture, Art and Cinematography of Yamalo-Nenets autonmous district, Department for International and Interregional Relations of Yamalo-Nenets autonomous disrict, District Crafts Center and Shemanovsky Museum and Exhibition Center.
The specially organized committee will choose the best sketches out of all sent and the succeful candidates will have an opportunity to demonstrate their skills here in Salekhard.
www.northernforum.org /servlet/eventdetails?id=87   (226 words)

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