Ukhta is a city of republican subordination. The population, taking into account the suburbs, is about 127 thousand people, excluding suburbs - 103.5 thousand people.
Ukhta is the third largest city in the Komi Republic after Syktyvkar (245 thousand people) and Vorkuta (180 thousand people), as well as 157th in the list of major cities in Russia (after Kyzyl and before Sarapul).
Ukhta is located in areas equated to the regions of the Far North. The district coefficient to wages is 30%, the northern allowance is 50%.
The distance to Syktyvkar by road is 320 km. The distance from Ukhta to Moscow is 1650 km. From the airport, regular flights to Moscow are carried out, there is a railway station (north to the stations of Pechora, Usinsk, Vorkuta, Labytnangi), a bus station (routes to the cities: Syktyvkar, Vuktyl, Sosnogorsk).
The basis of the city's economy are enterprises and structural units of Gazprom, Lukoil, Transneft, RAO UES. The volume of industrial production is 7.8 billion rubles per year (11% of the Komi Republic). Retail trade turnover is 12.4 billion rubles per year (18% of the Komi Republic). The unemployment rate of 0.7% is the lowest among the cities of the Komi Republic. The average accrued salary for September 2004 amounted to 12.2 thousand rubles per month. Demographic composition of the population: men - 48.4%, women - 51.6%. The city's telephone code is 82147. The telephone code of the city in the Republic of Komi is 247. Phone numbers are five-digit (X-XX-XX). Postal code: 169,300. Geographical coordinates of the city: 63°33' north latitude, 53°38' east longitude
The city is in the same time zone with Moscow (Moscow time). Time difference with Greenwich +3 hours.
Ukhta is a promising and young city that has entered the stage of active development.
History and geography:
The city of Ukhta, located on the territory of the Republic of Komi, 320 km northeast of Syktyvkar - the capital of the Republic. The distance to Moscow by rail is 1,560 km. The city is located in the southern part of the Timan Ridge, in the valley of the Ukhta River and its tributary Chibyu (the basin of the Pechora River). The Ukhta railway station is located on the Kotlas-Vorkuta line of the Northern Railway.
According to the results of the last census, the population of the city together with the suburbs (Lake, Dalny, Vetlosyan, Podgorny, Shudayag, Yarega, Nizhny Domanik, Vodny, Yugar, Borovoy, Merry Kut, Gardjel, Camdin, Izvail, Laikovo, Kedlov, Poromes, Pervomaisky) is 125 thousand people. The territory of the Ukhta district is 13.2 thousand square kilometers.
About oil sources on the river Ukhta, near the modern city, was known in the XVII century. In the middle of the XVIII century, the Arkhangelsk miner Fyodor Pryadunov created a fishery here - an "oil plant", which existed for more than two decades. In the middle of the XIX century, the industrialist M. K. Sidorov drilled near Ukhta one of the first oil wells in Russia. In the late XIX - early XX centuries, private companies and an expedition of the Mining Department of the Ministry of State Property were engaged in the search for oil in the Ukhta River basin. In 1920-21 there was an artisanal oil industry.
Modern Ukhta was founded by the geological exploration expedition of the OGPU, on August 21, 1929 as the settlement of Chibyu, the status of the city of Ukhta was received on November 20, 1943 (since a large detachment of prisoners from the Solovetsky camps was sent here to develop oil fields). Until 1953, Ukhta was built mainly by prisoners of the Gulag system. Currently, the city of Ukhta is the center of the oil and gas industry of the Russian North-West. In the vicinity of the city discovered oil fields.
