Labytnangi

Labytnangi (English)
Лабытнанги (Russian)
лапыт нангк (Khanty)
-  Town[1]  -

Location of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug in Russia
Labytnangi
Location of Labytnangi in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Coordinates: 66°39′26″N 66°25′06″E / 66.65722°N 66.41833°E / 66.65722; 66.41833Coordinates: 66°39′26″N 66°25′06″E / 66.65722°N 66.41833°E / 66.65722; 66.41833
Coat of arms
Administrative status (as of September 2009)
Country Russia
Federal subject Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug[1]
Administratively subordinated to town of okrug significance of Labytnangi[1]
Administrative center of town of okrug significance of Labytnangi[1]
Municipal status (as of December 2004)
Urban okrug Labytnangi Urban Okrug[2]
Administrative center of Labytnangi Urban Okrug[2]
Head[3] Leonid Savchenko[3]
Statistics
Population (2010 Census) 26,936 inhabitants[4]
Time zone YEKT (UTC+05:00)[5]
Founded 1890[3]
Town status since 1975[3]
Official website
Labytnangi on Wikimedia Commons

Labytnangi (Russian: Лабытна́нги; from Khanty: лапыт нангк; lit. seven larches) is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the left bank of the Ob River, 20 kilometers (12 mi) northwest of Salekhard. Population: 26,936(2010 Census);[4] 27,304(2002 Census);[6] 31,501(1989 Census).[7]

History

It was established in 1890.[3] It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1952 and town status in 1975.[3]

Labytnangi is connected to the European Russia by a branch of the Konosha-Vorkuta railway. It is the terminus station on this short stub branch; however, it was built in the early 1950s by Gulag inmates as the first stage of an ambitious project under which the railway would have crossed the north of Tyumen Oblast and reached Igarka on the Yenisei River. The project was abandoned after Joseph Stalin's death.

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as the town of okrug significance of Labytnangi—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[1] As a municipal division, the town of okrug significance of Labytnangi is incorporated as Labytnangi Urban Okrug.[2]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Law #42-ZAO
  2. 1 2 3 Law #105-ZAO
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Official website of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Information about Labytnangi
  4. 1 2 Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). "Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1" [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года (2010 All-Russia Population Census) (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service. Retrieved June 29, 2012.
  5. Правительство Российской Федерации. Федеральный закон №107-ФЗ от 3 июня 2011 г. «Об исчислении времени», в ред. Федерального закона №271-ФЗ от 03 июля 2016 г. «О внесении изменений в Федеральный закон "Об исчислении времени"». Вступил в силу по истечении шестидесяти дней после дня официального опубликования (6 августа 2011 г.). Опубликован: "Российская газета", №120, 6 июня 2011 г. (Government of the Russian Federation. Federal Law #107-FZ of June 31, 2011 On Calculating Time, as amended by the Federal Law #271-FZ of July 03, 2016 On Amending Federal Law "On Calculating Time". Effective as of after sixty days following the day of the official publication.).
  6. Russian Federal State Statistics Service (May 21, 2004). "Численность населения России, субъектов Российской Федерации в составе федеральных округов, районов, городских поселений, сельских населённых пунктов – районных центров и сельских населённых пунктов с населением 3 тысячи и более человек" [Population of Russia, Its Federal Districts, Federal Subjects, Districts, Urban Localities, Rural Localities—Administrative Centers, and Rural Localities with Population of Over 3,000] (XLS). Всероссийская перепись населения 2002 года [All-Russia Population Census of 2002] (in Russian). Retrieved August 9, 2014.
  7. Demoscope Weekly (1989). "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. Численность наличного населения союзных и автономных республик, автономных областей и округов, краёв, областей, районов, городских поселений и сёл-райцентров" [All Union Population Census of 1989: Present Population of Union and Autonomous Republics, Autonomous Oblasts and Okrugs, Krais, Oblasts, Districts, Urban Settlements, and Villages Serving as District Administrative Centers]. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 года [All-Union Population Census of 1989] (in Russian). Институт демографии Национального исследовательского университета: Высшая школа экономики [Institute of Demography at the National Research University: Higher School of Economics]. Retrieved August 9, 2014.

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