The relatively small city of Nizhnevartovsk, thanks to a developed industrial base, makes a very tangible contribution to the Russian budget. However, a small one is very arbitrary, because it exceeds the size of most European cities. It has grown rapidly in just half a century, and has continued to develop since then.
It was founded back in 1909 as a wood pier. For a long time it was not even considered a city, but in the 60s oil production began, and the city grew rapidly. Nizhnevartovsk is one of the main Russian oil production centers. From year to year he is on the list of the safest cities in our country. The level of criminogenic danger here remains low. The center of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, in which Nizhnevartovsk is located, is, in fact, Khanty-Mansiysk itself, but Nizhnevartovsk is superior in population. Once, record frosts of -57 degrees were recorded here. The city is located on the banks of the mighty Ob River. In the spring, it often spreads and floods the surrounding areas. A particularly severe flood occurred in 2015.
Due to harsh climatic conditions, Nizhnevartovsk is equated to the regions of the Far North. A lot of cedar pine trees grow in the surrounding forests, from which tasty and healthy pine nuts are harvested. Nizhnevartovsk is actually built on swamps, and on all sides it is surrounded by forests, swamps and lakes. 4 years after its foundation there were only three courtyards and 17 inhabitants. For 8 years, Nizhnevartovsk, then a village called Vartovskoye, was part of the Tobolsk province.
In 1967, two years after the start of the oil boom, its own television center was built here. Nizhnevartovsk received the status of the city in 1972, and then direct air service was established between it and Moscow. The average annual temperature here is below 0 degrees. Nizhnevartovsk is mentioned in the novel “The Red Storm Rises” by the famous American writer Tom Clancy.
