Salekhard

Salekhard is a town and the regulatory focus of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. It crosses the Polar circle, the principle parts being around 1 kilometer south and rural areas extending toward the north of the circle. The settlement of Obdorsk was established in 1595, in the place of a Khanty settlement called Polnovat-Vozh, by Russian pioneers after the success of Siberia. It was arranged on the Ob River, and its name as far as anyone knows gets from that.

The land around Obdorsk was alluded to as Obdorsky krai, or Obdoriya. The town was regularly utilized as a position of outcast amid the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Among outstanding individuals who invested energy here was the Doukhobor profound pioneer Pyotr Verigin and Leon Trotsky. The town and adjacent territory contained three Soviet camps where around 6,500 detainees were held, captured for their confidence in God.

At the port of Salekhard, roughly 1,500 detainees stacked and emptied products at the dock, or mined metal minerals. Around 5,000 detainees in two camps close Salekhard were appointed to clean precious stones mined from Mir mine. On December 10, 1930, Obdorsk turned into the authoritative focal point of the new Yamal National Okrug. It was renamed Salekhard in 1933, and allowed town status in 1938.