New Urengoy Is a city in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the gas-producing capital of Russia, where about 75% of all natural gas is produced in the country. All this turns Novy Urengoy into a city with an active economy, industry, as well as connections with other parts of the state.
Air communication with the city
The airport in Novy Urengoy is located four kilometers from the city center and is equipped to receive both passenger and cargo planes in Novy Urengoy. There are also several helipads on the territory of the airfield. Air transportation to Novy Urengoy is carried out by several companies at once, namely Transaero, Aeroflot, U-Tair, S7 and others. There are seasonal flights to the southern destinations of the country, as well as year-round flights to the largest cities in Russia. Communication by helicopters in Novy Urengoy is conducted only in local and intraregional cases.
The airport in Novy Urengoy has a small area. On the ground floor there are ticket offices, food points, and on the second floor there are several waiting rooms. Due to the fact that the building and the surrounding area have been placed at the disposal of the local authorities, the organization is experiencing minor funding problems at this stage of time.
Helicopter service in Novy Urengoy
The helipad in Novy Urengoy is located both on the territory of the airfield and in several places in the city itself. Helicopter transportation in Novy Urengoy is most often associated with weather conditions local scale, as well as the mobile transfer of labor or small loads from one point to another.
Flight destinations
In addition to being in touch with such major cities like Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Novosibirsk and others, the city has communication with small villages located on the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. For example, the Novy Urengoy Sabetta plane is a regular one. Tickets for the Novy Urengoy Sabetta flight can be purchased both at the airport ticket offices and using numerous online services. The cargo flight Novy Urengoy Sabetta can be served by the Severtek company along with other large and local directions throughout the country.
If you are interested in the services of the transport company "Severtek", please contact us by phone or leave a request on the official website of the organization, indicating your name and contact phone number.
The unofficial "gas producing capital" of Russia is one of the few regional cities - Novy Urengoy. Helipads for this city are simply necessary due to the inaccessibility in some places. Being in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the rivers Evo-Yakha, Tamchara-Yakha, Pura and Sede-Yakha flow through the city. And given the range of deployment and high rates of industry, the infrastructure of the helipads should be developed.
The airspace itself is nothing more than a piece of territory specially equipped for helicopter takeoffs and landings. A land plot, a site on a ship or building, on a roof or in a hangar can be used as a plot or territory. In Novy Urengoy, the helipad is located at the local airport. It is ground based, on a solid basis, and in terms of operating time, it belongs to permanent ones.
Since 2014, the Okrug government has launched the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug program, which is related to the "Development of Transinfrastructure for 2014-2020". It deals with the development of the district's airports. Thus, the reconstruction of the helipads and their engineering infrastructure will be carried out.
The main operator of helicopter services in the region, as well as throughout the country, is UTair JSC. They occupy the entire area at the airport. The bulk of the helicopters are located outside, while the rest are housed in hangars. Helicopters in this region mainly operate on government orders related to industry. Private and commercial flights are most concerned with hunters, fishermen, photographers and naturalists. And taking into account the large accumulation of profitable enterprises within the borders of the rest of the northern regions, helicopter transportation of local importance is carried out on an ongoing basis. The main services are the transportation of goods and people in the interests of various enterprises.
March 12th, 2017
I could not pass by - very rare Yamal aircraft in the frame.
Note to amateurs: "... the safety instructions are issued by the commander before takeoff, and apparently careless passengers have so annoyed the helicopter pilots by dragging these instructions away from memory that after landing these leaves serve as a collective exit pass."
Original taken from varandej to Selkupia. Part 1: in a blue helicopter
The main goal of my recent trip to the North and the Urals was the abandoned village of Dolgiy on the Taz River, in the mysterious Selkupia - the southeastern corner of the giant Yamal-Nenets Okrug. There is a station of the dead Transpolar Mainline, in everyday life there are simply Abandoned steam locomotives, to which I attached, like wagons, all the other points, considering it irrational to travel thousands of kilometers for several days. But Dolgiy itself is undoubtedly the most inaccessible place I've ever been: fifty kilometers on motor boat from the nearest village Krasnoselkup, where, in turn, you still need to fly from Novy Urengoy by helicopter. From a helicopter voyage, this is a completely new way of traveling for me, and I will begin the story.
The start of the trip turned out to be very irrational: the fact is that I changed the air ticket from Moscow to Urengoy to a ticket to Moscow from Nadym - on the last one I went in March for the Reindeer Herder's Day, but closer to the point, the prospect of going on an all-terrain expedition across the tundra fell on me from Vokruta, and of course I could not miss such a chance. Helicopters to Krasnoselkup by the standards of the Far North fly often, almost every day, in turn from Novy Urengoy and Tarko-Sale, but the summer schedule did not coincide with the winter one, and although I changed my ticket so that I could spend several hours in Novy Urengoy , in the end it turned out that I flew here for a day. However, this is, in principle, the specificity of travel in the Far North - long waiting times for transport in uninteresting places.
However, in this sense, I was not alone: the overwhelming majority of passengers got to the small and uncomfortable airport of Novy Urengoy in transit, someone was waiting for a shift in the square in front of the airport, but the path of most shift workers lay further by plane and helicopters - to Sabetta, Yamburg, Vankor and many other places to extract our Russian budget from the frozen ground. As in the last visit, I rented a bed from the Azerbaijani Arys for 1,500 rubles, but everything that could be booked in advance was even more expensive, and I categorically did not want to look for something on the spot. On the occasion of pressure testing, there was still no hot water in the apartment, and all my neighbors were waiting for flights to Sabetta - a recently built rotational city for 19 thousand people serving a gas port on the northern edge of the Yamal Peninsula.
The first thing that I saw in Urengoy was thick brown smog, and as I stepped out onto the ladder, inhaling dry Siberian air, I felt a strong smell of burning. The scale of the disaster was, of course, not the same as in Moscow-2010, but quite at the level of Moscow-2002, and after looking at the wi-fi from Arysov satellite online map, I realized that I had flown into the very heart of the forest fires that had engulfed Siberia. On the day of my return from Selkupia, the wind blew in the other direction, and one of them was perfectly visible from the Urengoy airport - and when I just arrived in Urengoy from Moscow, all this smoke covered the city:
It looked something like this, and in the guise of a sultry summer Nur there was something Kazakhstani - high-rise buildings on sandy wastelands, an abundance of southern faces and clothes, a general feeling of uncomfortable uninhabitedness.
But even the heat cannot hide the flavor of the oil and gas Yugoria. On the industrial zone separating the airport and the city, "six-legged" tracks scurry about:
Corporate buses with the logos of Gazprom and subsidiaries under the windshield:
And even here Donbass does not want to let go. In the rest of Russia, this is not written on fences, but in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, three thousand refugees alone were identified, and how many people from those regions came on their own, on watch and to their relatives who had settled here for a long time?
In general, after chatting around the Urengoy idle, swimming in the shallow river Sede-Yakha, sandy beaches which other seas will envy, having slept off at Arys (I found myself alone in the room, since the morning neighbor, who had been waiting for his board for Sabetta for three days, finally flew away), in the morning of the next day I went to the airport again. The helicopter tickets look like this (the price tag is attached + 430 rubles of insurance), are sold in 45 days (like a train), and you should not look for them on the Yamal Airlines website - it is not entirely obvious that the latter are not identical to Yamal airlines, and in everyday life local first called "aircraft company", and the latter, respectively, "helicopter company". A ticket from Urengoy to Krasnoselkup is issued via the Internet, and tickets from Krasnoselkup to Urengoy are only at the box office, but nevertheless they can be bought directly in Moscow. Whether there are congestions here, when, due to several days of bad weather, people who have accumulated at the airport are put on board in a "first-hand queue" (of course, stretching for weeks), I have not figured out. According to the locals, delays in one or two days or departures are not about the schedule here, but I have not encountered this.
And although there are three separate heliports in Novy Urengoy, rotational workers fly from them, and landing on scheduled helicopters is exactly the same as on an airplane - check-in counters, baggage check, drive, shuttle around the airfield ... The only difference is that the helicopter does not have a baggage compartment , therefore, both in the departure hall and in the shuttle passengers sit with huge luggage, which, however, is listed as hand luggage- the knife may still be held, but the gas cylinder is unlikely. The passengers of the helicopter return from their vacations, and these go on vacations once a year with a lot of money from places where everything is expensive and only a little, so they carry so many other things that do not fit into 20 kilograms per person. This, however, does not matter either - half of the passengers know each other and of course will take the excess luggage on themselves.
Helicopters are waiting for passengers at a separate site. We got the Mi-8, which is not surprising - this is perhaps the most massive helicopter in Russia, since 1961 more than 12 thousand of them have been built, and they serve everywhere from the "flying armored personnel carriers" of the army to the "flying buses" of the northern airlines.
The cabin of the helicopter, to put it mildly, is not very comfortable, it takes up to 24 passengers on board:
When filled, it looks like this - luggage is piled up in the middle, people sit on the sides with their backs to the windows, equally on each side, so as not to cause a roll. On the right are the safety instructions, issued by the commander before take-off, and apparently careless passengers have so annoyed the helicopter pilots by dragging these instructions away from memory that after landing these leaves serve as a collective exit pass.
Passengers communicate noisily, share their impressions of their vacations, but at some point the engine roars piercingly and the blades start spinning faster and faster with a heavy whistle, and a fine hard vibration goes through the windows. It becomes possible to talk only by shouting into the very ear of a neighbor. I expected the helicopter to take off straight from the spot, but instead it taxied to the runway, drove out to its very beginning, and only there almost imperceptibly took off from the ground and went up a steep diagonal. This is how the NUR airport looks from above - on the left is a pink airport terminal next to white planes, on the right is a heliport, along this path our car was taxiing, but I never saw a helicopter traveling on the ground from the outside.
The porthole does not shine with cleanliness, and most of the frames were taken on the way back, when the wind dispersed the smog of fires. Novy Urengoy itself remains on the port side, and this is how it looks from a height of "from 150 to 300 meters." 115 thousand people live here, I suspect thousands more are on watch and in transit. The structure of the city is clearly visible, stretched between the rivers Varenga-Yakha (winds in the frame below) and the confluence of Tomchara-Yakha and Sede-Yakha, behind a dark forest along which a special Northern region can be seen on the left - compared to the Southern one, it is smaller, neater and that is where it is located most public facilities from the City Hall to the Victory Memorial. In the foreground is the endless industrial zone of various warehouses and technical bases. The nature around Urengoy - as you can see, a forest-tundra with rare larch needles stuck into a reindeer cushion:
We go over the center - from a helicopter the views are approximately the same as from a skyscraper. Southern region is divided into older "numbered" and newer "registered" microdistricts. Here in the frame it is the last ones - colorful high-rise buildings that are unlike the rest of the city in their neatness and comfort of the Optimists microdistrict, the more modest buildings in the Sozidateli and Polyarny microdistricts are a little closer, and finally the barracks of the SMP-700 and Yagelny microdistricts. The houses in the background are sandwiched in a narrow strip between the dreary Novy Urengoy-Nadym railway and the Tamchara-Yakhi cliff, and on the left, behind a gray five-story building, you can distinguish the minaret of the mosque:
To the right, between the microdistricts of Optimists and Enthusiasts, there is also the Epiphany Church, behind it is a railway embankment, and houses in the Tamchara-Yakhi bend mark the place where on September 22, 1973 geologists hammered a peg with the inscription "Yagelnoye" - the beginning of the future city near the super-giant Urengoyskoye field gas. But notice how much sand there is! Natural Sahara is hidden under the moss and grasses of Yamal and Yugra:
Old "numbered" microdistricts - St. Petersburg "house-ships" on vacant lots, in one of which I spent the night. The huge red building in the foreground is the office of Gazpromdobycha-Yamburg, due to the closed nature of Yamburg itself, a shift town a couple of hundred kilometers north of Urengoy, located here. The Yamburgskoye field is the second largest in Russia after the Urengoyskoye field itself, that is, NUR deserves the fame of the "gas capital". In the opening of the street to the right of the single-storey buildings one can discern a blue railway station, at the left edge of the frame - a green Mi-8 on the roof of the Helicopter shopping center, and in the background the compact and high Northern District.
Then there are only endless warehouses and industrial zones, parallel highways and a railway, which will remain inseparable until Noyabrsk itself, and a monument at the R-1 exploration well, which Vladmir Polupanov's expedition discovered the Urengoyskoye field in 1966. I have described all this in more detail in the post about the city, but it is impressive how small details are visible from a helicopter flying low (from 150 to 300 meters) and unhurriedly (or rather quickly by "ground" standards).
But here and there - swamps, countless small lakes, winding rivers, cunning patterns of a deserted land:
In the rivers, the bottom is visible in places. A trained eye could probably distinguish between animals escaping with the noise of the propellers:
But I took most of these shots, as already mentioned, on the way back. And on the way "there" in the sultry calmness the earth looked more like this:
A small specimen of a forest fire, this most terrible predator of forests and steppes:
And his traces:
The view of these spaces is about the same for an hour and a half during the flight, but for the first half an hour, about 70 kilometers, below you can see the road with scurrying cars - alas, I flew overlooking it only on a "smoky" day, so I could not take a picture (or rather, as just the same smog and photographed). On the other hand (if you fly from Urengoy - on the left) after half an hour of flight Limbyayakha (2.8 thousand inhabitants) floats:
On the lake with the hardly pronounced name Yamylimuyagunto:
It was founded in 1983 for the construction of the Urengoyskaya GRES, rather small (489 MW) and seemingly absolutely modern:
In 1988, Limbyayakha became an urban settlement, and in 2004 it became part of Novy Urengoy as its remote area. It is easy to look directly into the courtyard from a helicopter:
In general, there is a junction of three villages here - a little further on the starboard side you can see Korotchaevo (6.9 thousand inhabitants), a village of railway workers, the terminal station of Russian Railways and the starting station of the Yamal railway company, which leases both the Urengoy station and the line to Nadym. The latter runs along the route of the former Stroyka-501, the Stalinist Dead Road, which was supposed to connect the mouth of the Ob with the mouth of the Yenisei, and to which my goal, Dolgy, also belonged. Somewhere here is the Tikhaya station, where the line, restored in the 1960s and 70s, turns off the route of the 501st construction site to the south. A huge pile driver is also visible here - this is the Tyumen superdeep well, one of the "younger sisters" of the legendary Kola superdeep well, drilled in 1987-96 to a depth of 7502 meters.
Center Korotchaev with the Church of the Annunciation. Alas, no matter how hard I tried, the station did not get into the shot, and there were no successful shots with the Urengoy port located here. We will see Korotchaevo more closely in the post about railways Ugra North:
And we cross the Pur - with Taz it has one mouth in the Taz Bay, which in turn, flowing into the Ob Bay, forms such a characteristic blue, either "h", or lambda (" λ ") on the map of Eurasia. Pur, in turn, merges from the two rivers Aivasedpur and Pyakupur, and together with the latter, its length is 1024 kilometers, the flow rate at the mouth is 1040 cubic meters per second - that is, it is a river of Don scales. in the history of the Transpolar Mainline, delimiting Construction-501, a stretch from Salekhard to the east and still reaching the embankment, and Construction-503, which went from the banks of the Yenisei to the west, but reached only Taz. it is on the right) railway workers - civilians and convicts - did not have time to reach, only a telegraph line passed there.
On the starboard side, two narrow pontoon bridges over Pur and one more village are clearly visible:
This is Urengoy proper (10.1 thousand inhabitants), which gave the name to the largest gas field, but itself remained aloof from oil and gas. It was founded in 1932 as a trading post - that is, a point where the Nenets handed over the products of their economy and received or bought the necessary goods; on the Transpolar Mainline, a role was prepared for it central station with a base depot, and in 1966 it was here that geologists-gas detectors were based. The urban settlement Urengoy became a year earlier than Novy Urengoy became a city - in 1979, but that is how the settlement remained. There is a Vvedenskaya church and a hotel "Polyarnaya" with a chum-cafe in the courtyard, but in general, in the guidebook I have, Urengoy is described as "one of the most uninteresting and poorest villages in Yamal." And although officially this is Urengoy "by default", and that city is Novy Urengoy, in practice the opposite is true - there is Urengoy "by request", and this is in everyday life Old Urengoy.
In general, it is not entirely obvious that our Far North is not distinguished from the foreign north by emptiness, but, on the contrary, by habitability, especially here, where oil or gas is produced. In some places, the pipelines themselves are visible, apparently going from Vankor in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
So we flew for an hour and a half, I did not have the opportunity to look out the window all the time (after all, I was sitting with my back to the window), but looking out, I saw the same thing over and over again: swamps, rivers, lakes, forest, tundra, roads, compressor stations , fires, and the blades of a helicopter flashing above ... big river, in which I, of course, immediately recognized the Taz: its length is 1401 kilometers, and the discharge at the mouth is up to 1450 cubic meters per second, that is, on average per year it comes out as a river of the Oka scale. We flew over Taz through a large fire train, which we will still see from a motor boat:
Along the Taz it goes unhurriedly by auto-ferry - you can get here not only by helicopter, this vessel (I already showed such a vessel last year in a post about the fleet of northern rivers) will drag a day to the village of Gaz-Sale (Gazovy cape) already on the Tazov Bay, and from there still 300 kilometers of road to Novy Urengoy. I don't remember exactly how much it costs to spend on such a car - it seems to be one much more expensive than a helicopter ticket, and three or four is clearly cheaper. As a passenger, you can also travel for free - this is a note to hitchhikers.
The helicopter drops noticeably over the river, and beyond the river meets the large and colorful Krasnoselkup (6 thousand inhabitants) - the village-regional center of the unusual area Yamalo-Nenets Okrug - only here in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug do not produce oil and gas, and only here, in addition to the usual Nenets and Khanty, there lives another Selkup people, according to which the Taza valley itself is often called Selkupia.
The village justifies its name - its favorite color is really red, and despite the absence of nearby deposits, it is almost the most well-groomed rural locality Russia. A huge multi-colored building in the center of the frame is a school, behind it is a long-term sports palace, to the right of the school under a gable roof is a museum with a micro-scan in the courtyard, and by the coast wooden church Basil of Mangazeisky.
In Krasnoselkup there is an airfield with a runway longer than the village itself, but only this runway is unpaved and therefore aircraft are rarely on it:
A wooden airport terminal, except perhaps without carved platbands, and a helicopter of the Turukhan airline, apparently sent here from the neighboring Krasnoyarsk Territory to extinguish fires - later I will show it in action:
We sit down. Smog is so dense in Krasnoselkup that the photographs look like sepia; such a dense gnome that many people even walk around the village in encyphalites. From the first seconds you understand how far you have climbed.
Please note that the heliport is wet through and through - and this despite the fact that the rains here for the second month waited like manna from heaven. In fact, the soil is specially watered, because otherwise every takeoff and landing of the helicopter would have turned into a local dust storm:
The company dealing with the airports of the Krasnoselkupsky region has an extraordinary beautiful name... In fact, it is justified - after all, to Mangazeya it is a hundred kilometers down the Taz.
There is also a check-in counter, a baggage scanner and a drive, only they are all small, small. However, I have already seen a similar terminal in Kodinsk, from where I flew not by helicopter, but by plane the size of a minibus. For some reason, hangs in the departure hall old circuit Krasnoselkupa:
Airport terminal view from the village. Due to the lack of land roads, the entrance stele stands right here:
And in general, I want to say, I didn't like flying in a helicopter. The plus is that the helicopter does not have such a painful descent as in small aircraft, but the flight itself at the echelon is quite difficult - either pitching, or vibration, or noise, or an uncomfortable position (sideways), but rather all together in an hour and a half of the flight, they completely unsettle, I left both flights almost all day. Finally - the same Mi-8 in the sky, returning to Krasnoselkup from Tarko-Sale:
In the next part about Krasnoselkup itself, where I spent a total of 4 days.
NORTH-URAL-2016
Review of the trip and table of contents of the series.
Selkupia
Helicopter over the tundra.
Krasnoselkup.
Dead road. River Taz and station Dolgiy.
Dead road. Dolgy village and hike along the line
Oil and gas region- there will be posts.
Mining Ural- there will be posts.
