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Khanty-Mansiysk is an oil boom town in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, the administrative center of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug?Yugra , or Khantia-Mansia, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . The people native to the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob Ugric people....
. It is located on the Irtysh River, 15 km from its confluence
Confluence (geography)

Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water. It usually refers to the point where a tributary joins a more major river, called the mainstem , when that major river is also the highest Strahler Stream Order in the drainage basin....
 with the Ob
Ob River

Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, it is the country's fourth longest....
. The population as of the 2002 Census
Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
 was 53,953, up from 34,462 recorded in the 1989 Census
Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
. It is served by Khanty-Mansiysk Airport
Khanty-Mansiysk Airport

Khanty-Mansiysk is an airport in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia located 5 km northeast of Khanty-Mansiysk. It services medium-size airliners....
.

It was founded in 1930 as a work settlement
Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement is an official designation for a certain type of urban localities used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union....
 Ostyako-Vogulsk after the obsolete names of Ostyaks and Voguls for the Khants and Mansi
Mansi

Mansi are an endangered indigenous people living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khantia-Mansia, the Khanty language and Mansi language languages have co-official status with Russian language....
 peoples. In 1940, it was renamed Khanty-Mansiysk, and it was granted town status in 1950, merging with the village of Samarovo, known since the 16th century, along the way.

A bridge crossing the Irtysh was opened in Khanty-Mansiysk in 2004.






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Khanty-Mansiysk is an oil boom town in Russia
Russia

Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
, the administrative center of Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug

Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug?Yugra , or Khantia-Mansia, is a federal subjects of Russia of Russia . The people native to the region are the Khanty and the Mansi, known collectively as Ob Ugric people....
. It is located on the Irtysh River, 15 km from its confluence
Confluence (geography)

Confluence, in geography, describes the meeting of two or more bodies of water. It usually refers to the point where a tributary joins a more major river, called the mainstem , when that major river is also the highest Strahler Stream Order in the drainage basin....
 with the Ob
Ob River

Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia, it is the country's fourth longest....
. The population as of the 2002 Census
Russian Census (2002)

Russian Census of 2002 was the first census of the Russian Federation carried out on October 9 through October 16, 2002. It was carried out by the Goskomstat ....
 was 53,953, up from 34,462 recorded in the 1989 Census
Soviet Census (1989)

The 1989 Soviet Census was the final and most comprehensive Soviet Census taken within the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics....
. It is served by Khanty-Mansiysk Airport
Khanty-Mansiysk Airport

Khanty-Mansiysk is an airport in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia located 5 km northeast of Khanty-Mansiysk. It services medium-size airliners....
.

It was founded in 1930 as a work settlement
Urban-type settlement

Urban-type settlement is an official designation for a certain type of urban localities used in some of the countries of the former Soviet Union....
 Ostyako-Vogulsk after the obsolete names of Ostyaks and Voguls for the Khants and Mansi
Mansi

Mansi are an endangered indigenous people living in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, an autonomous okrug within Tyumen Oblast in Russia. In Khantia-Mansia, the Khanty language and Mansi language languages have co-official status with Russian language....
 peoples. In 1940, it was renamed Khanty-Mansiysk, and it was granted town status in 1950, merging with the village of Samarovo, known since the 16th century, along the way.

A bridge crossing the Irtysh was opened in Khanty-Mansiysk in 2004. The bridge consists of fourteen spans and has a total length of 1,315.9 meters. Its main span is 231 m long.

Khanty-Mansiysk was the venue of the 2003 Biathlon World Championships
Biathlon World Championships

The first Biathlon World Championships was held in 1958, with individual and relay contests for men. The number of events has grown significantly over the years....
, and in 2005 the first Mixed Biathlon Relay
Biathlon World Championships

The first Biathlon World Championships was held in 1958, with individual and relay contests for men. The number of events has grown significantly over the years....
 (4×6 km) took place here. The town also hosted the 2005 Chess World Cup
Chess World Cup 2005

The Chess World Cup 2005 served as a qualification tournament for the FIDE World Chess Championship 2007. It was held as a 128-player tournament, between 27 November and 17 December 2005, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....
 and the 2007 Chess World Cup
Chess World Cup 2007

The Chess World Cup 2007 served as a qualification tournament for the World Chess Championship 2009. It was held as a 128-player single-elimination tournament, between 24 November and 16 December 2007, in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia....
 from November 22 through December 18, 2007,.

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