Yamburg (russian: Ямбург) is a

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(a settlement) in

Nadymsky District Nadymsky District (russian: Нады́мский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #42-ZAO and municipalLaw #111-ZAO district (raion), one of the seven in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Tyumen Oblast, Russia. It is located in the central an ...

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 ...

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, north of the

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on the

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. The name of the settlement is derived from the

Yamburg gas field The Yamburg gas field is the world's third largest natural gas field located north of the Arctic Circle in the Tazovsky and Nadymsky districts in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast, Russia. History It was discovered in 1969 by ...

, which was discovered in 1969. Yamburg was constructed in the early 1980s as the base of operations for the exploration and development of the gas field. Yamburg is a

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, and the vast majority of its 5,000–6,000 inhabitants are employees of

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. The settlement is well served by transport infrastructure, including an

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, as well as river, motor and railway connections to other points in Russia.

References

{{Reflist Rural localities in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug