- Khanty-Mansiysk
Khanty-Mansiysk ( _ru. Ха́нты-Манси́йск) is an oil boom town in
Russia , the administrative center ofKhanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug . It is located on theIrtysh River , 15 km from its confluence with the Ob. The population as of the 2002 Census was 53,953, up from 34,462 recorded in the 1989 Census. It is served byKhanty-Mansiysk Airport .It was founded in 1930 as a work settlement Ostyako-Vogulsk ( _ru. Остяко-Вогульск) after the obsolete names of
Ostyaks andVoguls for theKhants andMansi peoples. In 1940, it was renamed Khanty-Mansiysk, and it was granted town status in 1950, merging with the village of Samarovo, known since the 16th century, along the way.A bridge crossing the Irtysh was opened in Khanty-Mansiysk in 2004. The bridge consists of fourteen spans and has a total length of 1,315.9 meters. Its main span is 231 m long.
Khanty-Mansiysk was the place of the 2003
Biathlon World Championships , and 2005 the first Mixed Biathlon Relay (4×6 km) took place here. The town also hosted the 2005 World Chess Cup and hosted the 2007 Chess World Cup fromNovember 22 throughDecember 18 ,2007 , [http://www.ugra-chess.ru/eng/main.html] and the38th Chess Olympiad in 2010.External links
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* [http://www.admhmansy.ru The Official Information Portal of Khanty-Mansiysk Self-Government ru icon] en icon
* [http://www.hmao.wsnet.ru/capital/capital.htm Brief information] ru icon
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* [http://www.suvenirograd.ru/geography.php?id=131&lang=2 Sights of Khanty-Mansiysk]
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