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About Salekhard Most Viral,
About Salekhard Most Viral,
We had two hours free time to see the city and surrounding area. Not a lot of, well, not because Paris ...) to call a taxi, arrived pretty Volga, with a colorful man of about fifty. A ride-ka you have Dad in Yamal bit!
01. The driver at first confused (which take us?), But in the end had a good tour for us to tinker around the city and surrounding area, describing his life in Yamal, for which we are sincerely grateful.
02. First, we visited Obdorsky jail, so imbued with the spirit of history was to be. The name comes from the river Ob and the Komi word dor, with a value of Beach, so Obdorsk means Priobsky Beach.
03. Ostrog was built by Cossacks in 1595. Goal? Probably for the collection and storage of tribute from the Samoyeds, as well as the protection of the latter from the raids of foreign thieves. Well, it's almost the official version.
04. Since 1635 there are permanent residents, which eventually leads to the gradual transformation of the fortress in Obdorsk civil settlement.
05. In 1807, the stockade was torn down, the territory expanded and healed habitual rural life. By the middle of the XIX century, lived here continuously for about two hundred Russian families, mostly fishermen once came from Tobolsk and Berezov. The main attraction of the day - New Year's Fair, when compared to January in Obdorsk merchants from Siberia and Europe (Arkhangelsk, Nizhny Novgorod and Veliky Ustyug). What is traded? However, what is rich northern region - products of reindeer herding, fishing and hunting. In good years, some exchange of goods reached 1 million rubles, the then!
Up until 1923 Obdorsk remained the administrative center Obdorsk Parish, Berezovsky district, Tobolsk Province. But then came the advice ... Remember how in the International sung the whole world of violence, we razed to the ground, and then we ours, we construct a new world ...? All private crafts, shops and businesses were nationalized, the peasants brutally suppressed revolts. Obdorsky jail was finally demolished and in its place came the old (as they say today) River Station.
06. On the other hand, the industry began to develop the region. Lesotarny construction plant, there is electricity, fish-canning industry (existing up to the present day).
07. The city is growing mainly due to the special settlers from the southern regions, but enthusiasts arrived at the call of the party and Komsomol to perform feats. But first of course more. After the Second World War in Salekhard (1933 Obdorsk becomes Salekhard, from the Nenets town on the Cape) based management of the famous 501st construction, a leading construction of the railroad from Salekhard to Nadym ... / Igarka / Chukotka ...
08. Miraculously survived those years, stone (first in Yamal), the temple of Peter and Paul, built in 1894. After the war the building was used as a vegetable store, warehouse, school sports.
09. And the potatoes are growing ..)
10. In the second half of the XX century, the city grows, new residential buildings, cultural facilities, improving infrastructure. Salekhard becomes a base for expeditions leading geological and Intelligence work on the discovery of new oil and gas fields.
11. Our taxi driver came here thirty years ago a young man in search of a better life, simply put to work. And I fell in love was to be in the north or in the future of his wife. Since then, and lives here and is happy with his words. And the town has changed markedly in his eyes, turned into a bright and easy-to-life center. The photo entertainment center Polaris.
12. To be honest I was surprised. From the river, the city looks pretty depressing
13. But little Trains on the streets,
14. The impressions are formed very different.
15. Salekhard - really bright varied atypical city.
16. Most of the buildings that were built not typical (I could be wrong, it's just my impression) in the post-Soviet period. The building of the National Library of Yamal.
17. Unique bridge torch through Shaytanka river, built in 2004. Besides that glows in the dark, like a Christmas tree, so also a restaurant with a viewing platform is located on the top of it. True closed in 2016 ...
18. And on the other side Shaytanka River, with views of the private sector, and even see the traditional northern barracks. Well Prosecutors YaNAO sparkles so to speak.
19. But if you look a little, it is easy to see, and a completely new house, which replaced thus a two-story barracks.
20. The main characters of today's tourist Salekhard.
21. The mosque seems the most northern in Russia, and perhaps on the planet. Corps Yamal versatile college opened in 2008
22. Clearly visible here and construction of the temple complex of the Transfiguration.
23. On being built waterfront Shaytanka river met our cadets with the ship mechanic Kalashnikov. The guys got out on the free tour. Exchanged experiences and dispersed. See you there ever anything else? )