Natural resources

	Oil and gas
	Specially protected natural sites of the Okrug

Ugra possesses great natural resources. Woods are very valuable and at the same time preserve and nurse fur-bearing animals and forest-birds. Water basins contain valuable species of fish, attract the water-fowl. Life of the native population has depended on fishing and hunting for many centuries.

At present Okrug is the main oil and gas-bearing region of the Russian Federation. The largest oil and gas deposits in the Okrug are Samotlorskoe, Fedorovskoe, Mamontovskoe and Priobskoe.

Placer gold, vein quartz and collection raw materials are extracted in the Okrug. Fields of brown and black coal were discovered on the territory of the Okrug. Iron-ore deposits, copper, zinc, lead, niobium, tantalum, the manifestations of bauxite, etc. are discovered as well. Deposits of decorative stone, brick-claydite clays, construction sands are at the stage of preparation.

On the territory of the Okrug adjacent to the Urals, rocks with a high filter and absorbent properties are discovered. Volcanic formations and other specimen of rocks are among them.

Exploitation reserve of mineral (iodine bromic) waters are developed and agreed.