Nizhnevartovsk

Nizhnevartovsk is a town in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Nizhnevartovsk turned into founded in 1909, constructed as a carrier point for service provider steamships operating on the Ob River to gather stocks of firewood to energy their boats. The new village had five homes with a populace of 11 people, and become named Nizhnevartovskoye, in reference to the Vartovskaya River, a tributary of the Ob located 180 versts downstream. In early 1924, Nizhnevartovsky Selsoviet was formed.

Nizhnevartovsk remained a especially small agreement till the 1960 while the Soviet government started out sizable prospecting for the petroleum enterprise inside the Western Siberia place, discovering the Samotlor oil discipline, one in every of the most important oil fields in the international, beneath the nearby Lake Samoltor to the north of Nizhnevartovsk. The discovery noticed its speedy development and growth from a big village to a boomtown, Komsomol volunteers had been introduced in from across the us of a to construct the metropolis, and Nizhnevartovsk's population skyrocketed from 2300 human beings in 1959 to 15,663 in 1970. Town reputation turned into granted to Nizhnevartovsk on March 9, 1972.