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Ukhta
Ukhta is a city of republican subordination, the center of the eponymous municipality in the Komi Republic (from April 1999) and petroleum industries. Ukhta lies within the Pechora River basin, an important oil and gas-producing region. The settlement was founded as the village of Chibyu in 1929, but in 1939 it was renamed Ukhta. It received town status in 1943 when it was linked to the Pechora Railway.
The distance to Syktyvkar by road is 331 km. Distance from Ukhta to Moscow - 1650 km. From the airport there are regular flights to Moscow, there is a railway station (north station to the Pechora, Usinsk, Vorkuta, Labytnangi), bus station (routes in the city: Syktyvkar, Vuktyl, Sosnogorsk)
The population is 127 thousand people, excluding the suburbs – 103,500.
Head of Lenin
Right above station on the mountain is the main attraction of Ukhta - the world's largest head of Lenin, made of metal pipes. In Soviet times, Lenin's head had built-in lights. This sight is the hallmark of Ukhta.
Historical museum
Exhibit: "How Ukhta was started," "Geology and Mineral Resources of the Timan-Severouralsk region," "Flora and Fauna of Ukhta," and "Ethnography of the Komi and Russian peoples of the North."
Address: Ukhta, st. Mira, 5b, tel. +7 (82147) 5-21-12, +7 (82147) 5-16-74
Open: Mon - Fri 9-00 to 16-00
State Museum "The nature of the Earth" (Ukhta)
Tel: +7 (82147) 4-6768
Address: 169300, Komi Republic, Ukhta, st.Oplesnina 28
Directions: From the city of Syktyvkar bus 567. In the city of Ukhta buses 1, 11
Working hours: * Monday - Friday: 8.00 to 15.00, except Saturday - Sunday
Please note: by appointment only
Internet: www.museum.ru/M2526 - official web page
Sightseeing in Ukhta
Information prepared by Elizaveta Shiryaeva
Edited by Randy Leyshon
A monument of A. Pushkin cast in bronze in 1937 by sculptor H. Bruni and installed in 1999. Address: Ukhta, Octyabrskaya Square.
Just opposite the monument there is an interesting Church. Externally, the church looks like a theater or cultural center (actually, previously it was a house of culture) and is known only by the cross at the top of the building. A nun said that the architect built the structure during the Soviet era as a House of Culture (building churches being out of the question) and then put the dome inside the church.
