Tarko-Sale (russian: Та́рко-Сале́, Nenets: Тарка’ саля, ''Tarkaꜧ salja''; Forest Nenets: Таӆка’ хаӆя) is a

town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ...

and the

administrative center An administrative center is a seat of regional administration or local government, or a county town, or the place where the central administration of a commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or ...

Purovsky District Purovsky District (russian: Пу́ровский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #42-ZAO and municipalLaw #113-ZAO district (raion), one of the seven in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is located in the center a ...

Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO; russian: Яма́ло-Не́нецкий автоно́мный о́круг (ЯНАО), ; yrk, Ямалы-Ненёцие автономной ӈокрук, ) or Yamalia (russian: Ямалия) is a fed ...

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

. It is located on the

Pyakupur River The Pyakupur (russian: Пякупур) is a river in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, the left source river of the Pur. The length of the Pyakupur is 542 km. The area of its basin is 31,400 km2., erroneously called "Ayvaseda" The ...

near its confluence with the Ayvasedapur river, southeast of

Salekhard Salekhard (russian: Салеха́рд; Khanty: , ''Pułñawat''; yrk, Саляʼ харад, ''Saljaꜧ harad'') is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, serving as the okrug's administrative centre. It crosses the Arctic Circle, th ...

the administrative center of the

autonomous okrug Autonomous okrugs ( rus, автономный округ, ''avtonomnyy okrug''; more correctly referred to as "autonomous districts" or "autonomous areas") are a type of federal subject of the Russian Federation and simultaneously an administrati ...

. The population of Tarko-Sale was

History

Tarko-Sale was founded in 1932, granted

urban-type settlement Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...

status in 1976, and town status on March 23, 2004. The Purovsky District Museum of History and Local Lore is located in Tarko-Sale. The museum houses over 26,990 items in its collection, including items related to natural history,

ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

archeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

local history Local history is the study of history in a geographically local context, often concentrating on a relatively small local community. It incorporates cultural and social aspects of history. Local history is not merely national history writ small bu ...

, and

fine art In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork ...

Geography

Tarko-Sale is located near the Yamal and Gyda peninsulas, south of the

Kara Sea The Kara Sea (russian: Ка́рское мо́ре, ''Karskoye more'') is a marginal sea, separated from the Barents Sea to the west by the Kara Strait and Novaya Zemlya, and from the Laptev Sea to the east by the Severnaya Zemlya archipelago. ...

. It lies just south of the

Arctic Circle The Arctic Circle is one of the two polar circles, and the most northerly of the five major circles of latitude as shown on maps of Earth. Its southern equivalent is the Antarctic Circle. The Arctic Circle marks the southernmost latitude at w ...

, in the Northern Temperate Zone. It has a

subarctic climate The subarctic climate (also called subpolar climate, or boreal climate) is a climate with long, cold (often very cold) winters, and short, warm to cool summers. It is found on large landmasses, often away from the moderating effects of an ocean, ge ...

with the

Köppen climate classification The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems. It was first published by German-Russian climatologist Wladimir Köppen (1846–1940) in 1884, with several later modifications by Köppen, notabl ...

''Dfc.'' Nearby towns include Gubinsky,

Muravlenko Muravlenko (russian: Муравленко) is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located southeast of Salekhard. Population: History It was founded as the oil-extracting settlement of Muravlenkovsky () in 1984. It was granted t ...

, and

Urengoy Urengoy (russian: Уренго́й; Nenets: Пюра ңо, ''Pjura ŋo'') is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) in Purovsky District of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Population: History Urengoy was founded in 1932 as a ...

, as well as the Kharampur and

Urengoy gas field The Urengoy gas field in the northern West Siberia Basin is the world's second largest natural gas field after South Pars / North Dome Gas-Condensate field. The gas field has over ten trillion cubic meters (1013 m³) in total deposits. It li ...

s. The nearest city is

Novy Urengoy Novy Urengoy (russian: Но́вый Уренго́й, lit: “New Urengoy”; Nenets: Едэй Уренгой, ''Edėy Urengoy'') is a city in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia. Population: It is the second largest city in the autonomous ...

Climate

Administrative and municipal status

Within the framework of administrative divisions, Tarko-Sale serves as the

, to which it is directly subordinated.Law #42-ZAO As a municipal division, the

of Tarko-Sale is incorporated within Purovsky Municipal District as Tarko-Sale Urban Settlement.Law #113-ZAO

Economy

Russia's largest independent gas producer,

Novatek Novatek (russian: ПАО «НОВАТЭК», , ) is Russia's second-largest natural gas producer (behind Gazprom), and the seventh-largest publicly traded company globally by natural gas production volume. The company was originally known as OAO F ...

, is headquartered in Tarko-Sale. Oil and natural gas production is a key industry in the region, with an estimated 80% of Russia's natural gas and 15% of the world's natural gas supply stored in

. Tarko-Sale also hosts a

wood processing Wood processing is an engineering discipline in the wood industry comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil. Paper engineering is a subfield of wood processing. The major wood pro ...

plant by Yamal LPK LLC (Ямальский лесопромышленный комплекс), which produces

glued laminated timber Glued laminated timber, commonly referred to as glulam, is a type of structural engineered wood product constituted by layers of dimensional lumber bonded together with durable, moisture-resistant structural adhesives so that all of the grain run ...

and MHM panels. The Tarko-Sale Airport was founded in 1962 and expanded greatly after the discovery of oil and natural gas deposits in the area in the 1970s. Its

IATA code IATA codes are abbreviations that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) publishes to facilitate air travel. They are typically 1, 2, 3, or 4 character combinations (referred to as unigrams, digrams, trigrams, or tetragrams, respecti ...

is TQL. A 500kV substation is scheduled to be built in Tarko-Sale in 2021-2022.

Gallery

File:Памятник геологам, monument geologist. - panoramio.jpg, Monument dedicated to geologists in Tarko-Sale (2000) File:Панорама завода ЯЛПК.jpg, Aerial panorama of the YALPK wood processing plant (2019) File:В память о войне 1941 г, in memory about war 1941 - panoramio.jpg, War memorial in Tarko-Sale (2007) File:Рейс на Тюмень а-к Ютейр, flight on Tymen UTair - panoramio.jpg, Airplane landing in Tarko-Sale (2007) File:Магазин Северная бухта, shop north bay - panoramio.jpg, Shops on the north bay (2007)

References

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* * {{Use mdy dates, date=November 2011 Cities and towns in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug