Noyabrsk is the largest
city in
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug,
Russia, located in the middle of the West
Siberian oil fields, on the
Tyumen–
Novy Urengoy railway about north of
Surgut. Population:
History
The city history dates back to 1975 when a landing party arriving by
helicopter disembarked on the ice of the Itu-Yakha River to start developing Kholmogorskoye oil field. In November 1976, the first party of railway builders arrived at the site of the future city and camped out by Lake Khanto with the task of creating a settlement. On October 26, 1977, the settlement of Noyabrsk, which grew around the
railway station of Noyabrskaya, was officially registered. It was decided to choose the name of "Noyabrsk" instead of the other proposal, "Khanto", to perpetuate the memory of the first arrival in November 1976, as the Russian word for November is "" (
noyabr). The settlement was granted
work settlement status on November 12, 1979 and that of a town on April 28, 1982.