Transport & communications
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18 basic road corridors of Russia "The Northern route" (Perm - Serov - Ivdel - Khanty-Mansiysk - Nefteyugansk - Surgut - Nizhnevartovsk - Tomsk) and "Siberian corridor" (Tyumen - Surgut - New Urengoi - Nadym - Salekhard) pass on the territory of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonmous Okrug - Ugra. The acting bridge transition over the Ob river and the bridge over the Irtysh river are on the way of these road corridors passage.
At present 19 motor public transport enterprises carry out transportation of passenger by motor transport on 279 s routes, passign though 17 twns nad 40 settlement. Annual passenger turnover, executed by motor transport enterprises accounts for over 77 million passenger-kilometers. To support technical readiness, modernization of passenger bus depot, development of public transport, financial funds are provided from the Autonomous Okrug budget to purchase vehicles. Thus, for the last 10 years over 850 buses which had been given fro exploitation by Autonomous Okrug motor transport enterprises, were purchased.
At present the civil aircraft complex of the Okrug is represented by 10 airports which carry out receipt and dispatch of the passengers and cargoes in and out of the Okrug. In the towns of Surgut, Khanty-Mansiysk, Nizhnevartovsk, Kogalym the airports have international status.
Autonomous Okrug air companies cover all kinds of services concerning passenger and cargoes transportation, carry out works on service of the objects of fuel & electric power complex, oil and gas deposits. In 2008 airports of the Autonomous Okrug serviced 39667 flights of crafts, passenger traffic accounted for 1274.1 ths. people, volumes of works on cargoes service amounted to 18.13 ths. tons, the volume of airport services - 3052.2 mln. rubles. Railway transport. Trunk railway on the territory of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug provides transport & economic communication with industrial areas of Russia and Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The total trunk railway length in use is 1106 km. The railway in the Western part of the Okrug serves the timber industrial enterprises, in the North-West - oil & gas industry enterprises. 3 department of Sverdlovsk railway - branch of the JSC "Rossiiskie zheleznye dorogi" (Russian Railway) operate on the territory of the Autonomous Okrug: Surgut department (length of lines is 650 km); Nizhny Tagil department (length of lines is 339 km); Sverdlovsk department (length of lines is 117 km). The largest railway junctions are Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, Pyt-Yakh, Kogalym, Megion, Langepas, Nyagan, Ustie Akha (settlement of Mezgdurechensky), Probie.
Stable growth of industrial production is observed in the Okrug, it affects increasing of traffic flows on the Okrug territory, in 2008 10.1 million tons of cargoes were sent, it increased by 3.3% in comparison with 2007. Passenger traffic is rather high and stable on the Okrug territory, in 2008 it accounted for 3236.2 million pas/km, it increased by 7.8% in comparison with 2007. To realize regional policy in the sphere of railway transport services, Government of the Autonomous Okrug and Sverdlovsk railway - branch of the JSC "RZhD", conclude social and economic agreements on interaction. Autonomous Okrug Government, leaders of Sverdlovsk railway terminal and municipal entities have planned and are constructing and reconstructing Sverdlovsk railway terminal at the Nyagan, Surgut, Verkhnekondinskaya, Pyt-Yakh stations by joint efforts. Construction of multifuctional terminal at the Priobje station which unites motor, water and railway transport, is carried out. Construction of these objects is socially significant and is necessary to improve transport service of enterprises and organizations, to make favorable infrastructure for providing regular cargoes, luggage, passengers transportation between the Yamalo-Nenetsky and Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Okrugs and south of the Tyumen Region. Planned construction of terminal at Priobje and Nyagan stations, reconstruction of stations in Surgut, Verkhnekondinskaya, Pyt-Yakh in cooperation with Sverdlovsl railway terminal and municipal entities, is socially significant and necessary to improve transport service of enterprises and organizations, to make favorable infrastructure, providing regular cargoes, luggage, passengers mixed (railway and water) transportation between the Yamalo-Nenetsky and Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Okrugs and south of the Tyumen Region. Taking into account the necessity of serviced passenger railway vehicles, increasing of its number and improvement of its technical reliability, Autonomous Okrug Government has purchased 56 passenger carriage to form "Ugra" train on the route Nizhnevartovsk-Moscow which is very popular among the Okrug population. To keep availability of passenger transportation by railway transport and to make suburban service rates cheaper, tickets cheapening policy is carried out in the Autonomous Okrug. Structure of internal and external passenger traffic which has been radically changed for the last decade, gradient overcoming of consequences of the system crisis in 1990s and way to the trajectory of stable economic growth need elaboration of priority directions of transport system development in Russia. At present Strategy of railway transport development in RF till 2030 is adopted by Decree of the RF Government #877-r dated June, 17, 2008. To speed-up economic growth of the Autonomous Okrug and Ural-Siberian region, railway transport should get advance dynamical development concerning railway system widening, modernization of existing material and technical basis and qualitative improvement of transport provision of the Autonomous Okrug and the whole country. In connection with it Autonomous Okrug Government is interested in realization of the Strategy on the Autonomous Okrug territory to provide qualitative support of Autonomous Okrug population and industrial enterpeises' need in railway and transport service. Construction of new railway lines on the Autonomous Okrug territory is provided by these Strategy: - Khanty-Mansiysk - Salym with the length of 200 km; - Khanty-Mansiysk - Priobje (extension of the line Khanty-Mansiysk - Salym), the length of the line will be defined during design; - Severo-Sibirian railway main line (Nizhnevartovsk - Bely Ya - Ust-Ilimsk) with the length of 1892 km; - Polunochnoe - Obskaya - Salekhard with the length of 856 km, new transport corridor allows to connect industrial Urals and timber industry zone of the north of the Sverdlovsk Region and Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and deposits of brown coal of Pre-Polar and Polar Urals, ore deposits of the Urals, zone of oil production in Yamal; - construction of the second lines between Tobolsk and Surgut with the length of 199 km and between Surgut - Ult-Yagun with the length of 34.8 km, this event allows to provide complete discovery of regional need in all-cargo service and create conditions for positive tendencies keeping in development of the Okrug enterprises and realization of investment projects on the Okrug territory, allows to increase the number of passenger trains, it improves the level of social protection of the Okrug townsmen taking into account increasing of the Okrug population and its mobility. Construction of railway in the considered region will favour construction cheapening of the industrial production objects by expenses decreasing on transport, materials and equipment. At present Agreement on joint activity between the Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and JSC "RZhD" on realization of the events of the Strategy of social and economic development of the Autonomous Okrug till 2020 and Strategy of railway transport development in RF till 2030 on the Okrug territory.
The main passenger carrier in the Okrug is the JSC "Severrechflot", founded in 1998 by the Government of the Autonomous Okrug to carry out the social order, i.e. to organize and carry out the passenger transportation by water transport in the Okrug, in which it is the only available mean of transportation. The enterprise has the modern speed passengers watercrafts in its disposal as follows: "Meteor", "Raketa", "Linda", "Zarya", "Moskva", "Tramvai", hydrojet boats of new team navigation - "Irtysh", modern air-cushioned ships of MARS-200 type. Regular passenger transportation is carried out on 33 routes within the limits of the Autonomous Okrug, the volume of passengers transportation increases annually, in 2008 it accounted for over 400 ths. people.
These crafts can solve problems of passenger transportation in shallow water and off-season by means of new kind of transportation usage. Air-cushioned ships can solve problems of passenger transportation in low-flow period of navigation and transitional seasons as well. Communications and telecommunications. On January 1, 2009, over 525 operators of different kinds of departmental subordination and property forms had licenses on communication services rendering in the Okrug. Regional, local communication, CTV, data communication network access are among the services rendering by operators. By the beginning of 2009 quota of the population covered with fixed telephone communication amounted to 42.0%. This index exceeded the All-Russia level in 2000 (average All-Russia level amounted to 22.6%; 28.6% - over the Okrug). At present digitization of local communication network, cross-connect equipment in the urban area of the Autonomous Okrug amounted to 100%. Use of digital technologies allowed to improve serve quality of local and long-distance telephony, date communication, offers new different types of communication to rural people and economic enterprises of the Okrug. Within the frameworks of national project "Education" all secondary schools of the Okrug have an Internet access. Project on implementation of the universal post services is realize. In the result of it 210 two-way communication coin-box telephones were installed in 195 populated localities of the Autonomous Okrug for populated localities the population of which exceeds 500 people, public access point functioning of which allow to solve several socially significant objectives the most important of which is access provision to information resources and information inequity liquidation, are organized. Development of cellular communications started in 1997, there was one operator of mobile communication, today over 2 million subscribers of MTS, Utel, Beeline, Megafon which have a wide national and international roaming with 170 world countries are registered in the Okrug. Quota of the population covered with communication will account for 157.8% by the end of 2008. This index has been exceeding the All-Russian index since 2004. On the Okrug territory the regional satellite network of "Yugoria" programs is constructed by means of the Okrug budget. Construction was carried out in 123 populated localities of the Okrug. In the result of the projects realization Okrug residents have got an access to some modern services including TV and radio, telephone communication, date communication in the remote populated localities of the Autonomous Okrug, through the space satellite "Express-80". Coverage of population with "Ugra" television in analog broadcasting at present accounts for 99.6%. Within the framework of federal purpose-oriented program realization "Development of TV and radio broadcasting in the Russian Federation" the program on implementation of digital television in realized in the Okrug. Execution of the project in 2007-2009 allows to transfer the existing analog network of TV and radio broadcasting on digital format and it will provide social support of 8 free TV programs in all populated localities of the Autonomous Okrug. Post services to the population of the Autonomous Okrug is rendered by Federal Postal Service Board of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - branch of the FSUE "Pochta Rossii". 8 post offices, 213 departments of post offices are within the structure of the branch. Implementation of information
technologies "CyberDengi", "CyberPochta", express post are the of the
priority directions of post communication. Non-core directions as
follows are developed as well: realization of consumer goods,
telephone payment cards, lottery; photo service by post, insurance
services, post services of trading organizations. Branch of the
FSUE "Pochta Rossii" is developing events aimed on
optimization of post services and transport map on the Okrug territory
to make stable the situation in the sector . |
The largest companies regarding the volume of works
in the Okrug are as follows: JSC 
