Novy Urengoy is the largest and most developed industrial city in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area. In 2010, the city celebrated its 35th anniversary. Novy Urengoy is located on the left bank of the Pur River in the subarctic part of the West Siberian Plain.
The city consists of four districts: the Southern, Northern, Korotchayevo and Limbya-Yakha. As of January 1, 2010, its permanent population totalled 119,600 people. The city's economy employs 72,200 people.
Today, Novy Urengoy is the centre of Russia's gas producing industry. It accounts for 54.1% of all gas produced in the Russian Federation, and 65% of all gas produced in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area.
Gazprom subsidiaries, Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy and Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg, and the affiliate Urengoy Bureniye of Gazprombureniye, are Novy Urengoy's core companies. The production facilities of smaller fuel and energy companies - Novatek, TNK-BP and others - are also located here.
As a municipal district, it is provided with all types of transport. Its airport handles flights from Moscow, St Petersburg, Tyumen, Samara, Rostov, Yekaterinburg, Omsk,Novosibirsk, Mineralnye Vody, Krasnodar and other Russian cities. Korotchayevo Station, the Surgut division of the Sverdlovsk Railway, is a transport hub with branch lines passing to Novy Urengoy and Nadym and stretching south, which are linked up with the Russian railway system via Tobolsk and Tyumen. In 2004, the 117-km motorway Purovsk-Korotchayevo, a section of the Surgut-Salekhard road, was opened connecting Novy Urengoy with roads all over Russia.
The city has 18 general educational institutions and seven branches of universities and colleges, including Tyumen State University, Yamal Oil and Gas Institute, etc. A total of 37 pre-school facilities, which provide care and education to 6,000 children annually, operate in the city.
There are 236 sports facilities. Over the past five years the Yamalstroi Company has built new gyms, the Yamal entertainment centre, and Sports School No. 17. Playgrounds have been provided in all of the city's neighborhoods, and the children's physical fitness and sports club Olimp and children's and youth sports school Piramida have been opened. At the end of 2009, the Yamburg Sports Palace was inaugurated in the Southern District, built by Gazprom Dobycha Yamburg.
The city has a developed entertainment infrastructure, its main grounds being the Gazodobytchik Cultural and Sports Centre, the Centre for Ethnic Cultures, and the cultural and sports complexes in Korotchayevo and Limbya-Yakha. The rebuilding of the city's main stage, the City Palace of Culture Oktyabr, is being finished. Its inauguration is scheduled for December 2010, which is the 80th anniversary of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Area.