Heliport Novy Urengoy. New Urengoy helipad
Novy Urengoy is a city in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the gas-producing capital of Russia, where about 75% of all natural gas in the country is produced. All this makes Novy Urengoy a city with an active economy, industry, and links with other parts of the state.
Air communication with the city
The airport in Novy Urengoy is located four kilometers from the city center and is equipped to receive both passenger and cargo aircraft in Novy Urengoy. There are also several helipads on the territory of the airfield. Air transportation to Novy Urengoy is carried out by several companies at once, namely Transaero, Aeroflot, U-Tair, S7 and others. There are seasonal flights to the southern destinations of the country, as well as year-round flights to the largest cities in Russia. Helicopter communication in Novy Urengoy is carried out only in local and intra-regional cases.
The airport in Novy Urengoy is notable for its small area. On the ground floor there are ticket offices, food points, on the second floor there are several waiting rooms. Due to the fact that the building and the surrounding area was placed at the disposal of the local authorities, the organization is experiencing minor problems with funding at this stage of time.
Helicopter service in Novy Urengoy
The helipad in Novy Urengoy is located both on the territory of the airfield and in several places in the city itself. Helicopter transportation in Novy Urengoy is most often associated with local weather conditions, as well as the mobile transfer of labor or small cargo from one point to another.
Flight directions
In addition to communication with such large cities as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Ufa, Novosibirsk and others, the city also has communication with small settlements located on the territory of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. So, for example, the Novy Urengoy Sabetta aircraft is regular. Tickets for the Novy Urengoy Sabetta flight can be purchased both at the airport ticket offices and through numerous online services. The cargo flight from Novy Urengoy to Sabetta can be served by Severtek along with other large and local destinations throughout the country.
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March 12th, 2017
I could not pass by - a very rare Yamal aircraft in the frame.
Note to amateurs: "... leaflets of safety instructions, they are issued by the commander before takeoff, and apparently negligent passengers so sickened the helicopter pilots by dragging these instructions as a keepsake that after landing these leaflets serve as a collective exit pass."
Original taken from varandej in Selkupia. Part 1: in the blue helicopter
The main goal of my recent trip to the North and the Urals was the abandoned village of Dolgiy on the Taz River, in the mysterious Selkupia - the southeastern corner of the giant Yamalo-Nenets district. There is a station of the dead Transpolar Highway, in everyday life there are simply Abandoned steam locomotives, to which I attached all the other points, like wagons, considering it irrational to travel thousands of kilometers for several days. But Dolgiy itself is certainly the most inaccessible place I have ever been: fifty kilometers by motorboat from the nearest village of Krasnoselkup, where, in turn, you still have to fly from Novy Urengoy by helicopter. With a helicopter voyage, this is a completely new way of transportation for me, and I will begin the story.
The start of the trip turned out to be very irrationally planned: the fact is that I exchanged an air ticket from Moscow to Urengoy for a ticket to Moscow from Nadym - the last time I went in March for Reindeer Breeder Day, but closer to the point, the prospect fell on me to go on an all-terrain expedition across the tundra from Vokruta, and of course I could not miss such a chance. By the standards of the Far North, helicopters to Krasnoselkup fly often, almost every day, in turn from Novy Urengoy and Tarko-Sale, only the summer schedule did not coincide with the winter one, and although I changed the ticket in such a way as to spend several hours in Novy Urengoy , in the end it turned out that I flew here for a day. However, this is, in principle, the specifics of traveling in the Far North - long waiting times for transport in places of little interest.
However, in this sense, I was not alone: the overwhelming majority of passengers got to the small and uncomfortable airport of Novy Urengoy in transit, someone was waiting for a shift on the square in front of the airport, but the path of most shift workers lay further by plane and helicopter - to Sabetta, Yamburg, Vankor and many other places to extract our Russian budget from the frozen ground. I, like on my last visit, rented a bed from the Azerbaijani Arys for 1,500 rubles, but everything that could be booked in advance was even more expensive, and I categorically did not want to look for something on the spot. There was still no hot water in the apartment on the occasion of pressure testing, and all my neighbors were waiting for flights to Sabetta, a newly built rotational city for 19 thousand people serving a gas port at the northern edge of the Yamal Peninsula.
The first thing I saw in Urengoy was a thick brown smog, and going out onto the gangway, inhaling the dry Siberian air, I felt a strong smell of burning. The scale of the disaster, of course, was not the same as in Moscow-2010, but quite at the level of Moscow-2002, and after looking at the satellite online map from Arysov Wi-Fi, I realized that I had flown into the heart of the forest fires that had engulfed Siberia. On the day of my return from Selkupia, the wind was blowing in the other direction, and one of them was perfectly visible from the Urengoy airport - and when I first arrived in Urengoy from Moscow, all this smoke covered the city:
It looked something like this, and in the guise of a sultry summer Nur there was something Kazakhstani - high-rise buildings on sandy wastelands, an abundance of southern faces and clothes, a general feeling of uncomfortable outback.
But even the heat cannot hide the flavor of oil and gas Yugoria. On the industrial zone separating the airport and the city, "six-legged" trackers scurry about:
Corporate buses with the logos of Gazprom and subsidiaries under the windshield are constantly going somewhere through the city:
And even here Donbass does not want to let go. In the rest of Russia, this is not written on the fences, but in the YNAO alone, three thousand refugees were identified, and how many people from those parts came on their own, on shifts and to relatives who had long settled here?
In general, after chatting around Urengoy idle, swimming in the shallow river Sede-Yakha, the sandy beaches of which other seas will envy, sleeping off at Arys (I ended up alone in the room, as the morning neighbor, who had been waiting for his board for three days in Sabetta, finally flew away) , the next morning I went to the airport again. Helicopter tickets look like this (the price tag is attached + 430 rubles of insurance), they are sold for 45 days (like for a train), and you should not look for them on the Yamal Airlines website - it is not quite obvious that the latter are not identical Yamal airlines, and in everyday life, the locals call the former "aircraft company", and the latter, respectively, "helicopter company". A ticket from Urengoy to Krasnoselkup is issued via the Internet, and tickets from Krasnoselkup to Urengoy - only at the box office, but nevertheless they can be bought directly in Moscow. Whether there are traffic jams here, when, due to several days of non-flying weather, people who have accumulated at the airport are put on board in a “live queue” (of course, stretching for weeks), I have not figured it out. According to the locals, delays of one or two days or departures not about the schedule are not uncommon here, but I did not encounter this.
And although there are three separate heliports in Novy Urengoy, shift workers fly from them, and landing on regular helicopters is exactly the same as on an airplane - check-in counters, baggage check, storage, shuttle around the airfield ... The only difference is that the helicopter does not have a luggage compartment , therefore, passengers sit in the departure hall and the shuttle with huge luggage, which, however, is listed as hand luggage - they can also hold a knife, but a gas cylinder is unlikely. Helicopter passengers return from vacations, and these vacations go once a year with big money from places where everything is expensive and there is not enough, so they carry so much that they do not fit into 20 kilograms per person. This, however, is also not a problem - half of the passengers know each other and of course they will take on excess luggage.
Helicopters are waiting for passengers on a separate platform. We got the Mi-8, which is no wonder - this is perhaps the most massive helicopter in Russia, more than 12 thousand have been built since 1961, and they serve everywhere from the "flying armored personnel carriers" of the army to the "flying buses" of northern airlines.
The cabin of the helicopter, to put it mildly, is not very comfortable, it takes up to 24 passengers on board:
When filled, it looks like this - luggage is piled up in the middle, people sit on the sides with their backs to the windows, equally on each side, so as not to cause a roll. On the right are safety instructions sheets, they are given out by the commander before takeoff, and apparently negligent passengers have so sickened the helicopter pilots by stealing these instructions as a keepsake that after landing these sheets serve as a collective exit pass.
Passengers communicate noisily, share their impressions from the holidays, but at some point the engine roars piercingly and the blades with a heavy whistle begin to spin faster and faster, and a small hard vibration goes through the windows. It becomes possible to talk only by shouting in the very ear of a neighbor. I expected the helicopter to take off straight from the spot, but instead it taxied to the runway, drove to its very beginning, and only there almost imperceptibly took off from the ground and went up in a steep diagonal. This is what the NUR airport looks like from above - on the left is a pink terminal near white planes, on the right is a heliport, our car taxied along this path, but I could not see a helicopter traveling on the ground from the outside.
The porthole does not shine with cleanliness, and most of the shots were taken on the way back, when the wind dispersed the smog of fires. Novy Urengoy itself remains on the port side, and this is how it looks from a height of "from 150 to 300 meters". 115 thousand people live here, I suspect thousands more are on duty and passing through. You can clearly see the structure of the city, stretched between the Varenga-Yakha rivers (winding in the frame below) and the merging Tomchara-Yakha and Sede-Yakha, behind the dark forest along which a special Northern region can be seen on the left - compared to the Southern one, it is smaller, neater and it is there most public facilities from the City Hall to the Victory Memorial. In the foreground is an endless industrial zone of various warehouses and technical bases. The nature around Urengoy is, as you can see, a forest-tundra with rare larch needles stuck into a reindeer pillow:
We go over the center - from a helicopter the views are about the same as from a skyscraper. The southern district is divided into older "numbered" and newer "nominal" neighborhoods. Here it is the latter in the frame - the colorful high-rise buildings of the Optimist microdistrict, which is unlike the rest of the city with its neatness and comfort, the more modest buildings of the Sozidatel and Polyarny microdistricts a little closer, and finally the barracks of the SMP-700 and Yagelny microdistricts. The houses in the background are squeezed in a narrow strip between the dreary Novy Urengoy-Nadym railway and the Tamchara-Yakha cliff, and on the left, behind the gray five-story building, you can discern the minaret of the mosque:
To the right, between the neighborhoods of Optimists and Enthusiasts, there is also the Church of the Epiphany, behind it you can see the embankment of the railway, and houses in the bend of Tamchara-Yakhi mark the place where on September 22, 1973, geologists hammered a peg with the inscription "Yagelnoye" - the beginning of the future city near the supergiant Urengoy field gas. But pay attention to how much sand is here! Natural Sahara is hidden under the moss and grasses of Yamal and Yugra:
The old "numbered" micro-districts are St. Petersburg "ship-houses" in wastelands, in one of which I spent the night. The huge red building in the foreground is the office of Gazpromdobycha-Yamburg, due to the closed nature of Yamburg itself, a rotational town a couple of hundred kilometers north of Urengoy, located here. The Yamburgskoye field is the second largest in Russia after the Urengoyskoye proper, that is, NUR deserves the fame of the "gas capital". In the opening of the street to the right of the mono-storey buildings, one can distinguish the blue railway station, at the left edge of the frame - a green Mi-8 on the roof of the Helicopter shopping center, and in the background the compact and high Northern District.
Then there are only endless warehouses and industrial zones, parallel highways and the railway, which will remain inseparable until Noyabrsk itself, and a monument on the R-1 exploratory well, which in 1966, the expedition of Vladmir Polupanov discovered the Urengoyskoye field. I told more about all this in a post about the city, but it is impressive how small details are visible from a helicopter flying low (from 150 to 300 meters) and slowly (or rather, quickly by "ground" standards).
But here and there - swamps, countless small lakes, winding rivers, cunning patterns of deserted land:
In the rivers, the bottom is translucent in places. A trained eye, probably, could also distinguish animals running away at the noise of propellers:
But I shot most of these shots, as already mentioned, on the way back. And on the way "there" in the sultry calm, the earth looked more like this:
A small instance of a forest fire, this most terrible predator of forests and steppes:
And his footprints:
The view of these spaces is approximately the same for the entire hour and a half of the flight, but for the first half hour, 70 kilometers, you can also see the road with scurrying cars below - alas, I flew with a view of it only on a "smoky" day, so I could not take a picture (or rather, how once again smog and photographed). On the other hand (if you fly from Urengoy - on the left), after half an hour of flight, Limbayakha swims (2.8 thousand inhabitants):
On the lake with the unpronounceable name Yamylimuyagunto:
It was founded in 1983 for the construction of the Urengoyskaya GRES, rather small (489 MW) and absolutely modern in appearance:
In 1988, Limbayakha became an urban-type settlement, and in 2004 it became part of Novy Urengoy as its remote area. From a helicopter it is easy to look directly into the courtyard:
In general, there is a junction of three villages here - a little further on the starboard side you can see Korotchaevo (6.9 thousand inhabitants), the village of railway workers, the final station of the Russian Railways and the starting station of the Yamal railway company, which rents both the Urengoy station and the line to Nadym. The latter passes just along the route of the former Stroyka-501, the Stalinist Dead Road, which was supposed to connect the mouth of the Ob with the mouth of the Yenisei, and to which my goal Dolgy belonged. Somewhere here is the Tikhaya station, where the line, restored in the 1960s and 70s, turns south from the 501 construction site. A huge pile driver is also visible here - this is the Tyumen super-deep well, one of the "little sisters" of the legendary Kola super-deep well, drilled in 1987-96 to a depth of 7502 meters.
Center Korotchaev with the Church of the Annunciation. Alas, no matter how hard I tried, I didn’t get the station in the frame, and the Urengoy port located here didn’t work out good shots either. We will see Korotchaevo more closely in a post about the railways of the Yugra North:
And we cross the Pur - with Taz it has one mouth in the Taz Bay, which, in turn, flowing into the Ob Bay forms such a characteristic blue either "h", or lambda (" λ ") on the map of Eurasia. Pur, in turn, merges from the two rivers Aivasedpur and Pyakupur, and together with the latter its length is 1024 kilometers, while the water flow at the mouth is 1040 cubic meters per second - that is, it is a river of the Don scale. The Pur was also of particular importance in the history of the Transpolar Highway, delimiting Stroyka-501, which pulls the way from Salekhard to the east and still reaches this embankment, and Stroyka-503, which went from the bank of the Yenisei to the west, but reached only as far as the Taz. it is on the right) the railway workers - civilians and convicts - did not have time to get there, only a telegraph line passed there.
On the starboard side, two narrow floating bridges across the Pur and another village are clearly visible:
This is actually Urengoy (10.1 thousand inhabitants), which gave the name to the largest gas field, but remained aloof from oil and gas. It was founded in 1932 as a trading post - that is, a point where the Nenets handed over the products of their economy and received or bought the necessary goods, on the Transpolar Highway he was preparing the role of a central station with a base depot, and in 1966 it was here that geologists-gas detectors were based. Urban settlement Urengoy became a year earlier than Novy Urengoy became a city - in 1979, but the urban settlement remained so. There is the Vvedenskaya Church and the hotel "Polyarnaya" with a plague-cafe in the courtyard, but in general, in the guidebook I had, Urengoy is described as "one of the most uninteresting and poor villages of Yamal." And although officially this is Urengoy "by default", and that city is Novy Urengoy, in practice the opposite is true - there is Urengoy "by default", and this is Old Urengoy in everyday life.
In general, it is not quite obvious that our Far North is distinguished from the foreign north not by emptiness, but, on the contrary, by habitation, especially here, where oil or gas is produced. In some places, the pipelines themselves are visible, going, it seems, from Vankor in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
So we flew for an hour and a half, I didn’t have the opportunity to constantly look out the window (after all, I was sitting with my back to the porthole), but looking out, I saw the same thing over and over again: swamps, rivers, lakes, forests, tundras, roads, compressor stations , fires, and helicopter blades flashing above ... At some point, a large river appeared ahead, in which, of course, I immediately recognized the Taz: its length is 1401 kilometers, and the discharge at the mouth is up to 1450 cubic meters per second, that is, on average for a year it turns out to be a river of the size of the Oka. Over the Taz we flew through the plume of a large fire, which we will still see from a motor boat:
A car ferry slowly travels along the Taz - you can get here not only by helicopter, this vessel (I already showed such vessels last year in a post about the fleet of the northern rivers) will drag for a day to the village of Gaz-Sale (Gas Cape) already on the Taz Bay, and from there 300 kilometers of the road to Novy Urengoy. I don’t remember exactly how much it costs to spend on such a car - it seems to be much more expensive for one than a helicopter ticket, and for three or four it is clearly cheaper. As a passenger, you can also pass for free - this is a note to autostop drivers.
The helicopter noticeably descends over the river, and across the river it meets the large and colorful Krasnoselkup (6 thousand inhabitants) - the village-district center of the most unusual region of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug - only here in the YaNAO they do not produce oil and gas, and only here, in addition to the usual Nenets and Khanty, lives another people is the Selkups, according to whom the Taz Valley itself is often called the Selkupia.
The village justifies its name - the favorite color in it is really red, and despite the absence of deposits nearby, this is perhaps the most well-groomed rural settlement in Russia. A huge multi-colored building in the center of the frame is a school, behind it is a long-term sports palace, to the right of the school under a gable roof is a museum with a micro-scansen in the yard, and near the shore is a wooden church of Vasily Mangazeya.
In Krasnoselkup there is an airfield with a runway longer than the village itself, but only this runway is unpaved and therefore planes are rarely on it:
The wooden terminal is perhaps without carved platbands and the helicopter of the Turukhan airline, apparently sent here from the neighboring Krasnoyarsk Territory to put out fires - later I will show it in action:
We sit down. In Krasnoselkup, the smog is so dense that the photographs seem to be sepia; such a dense midge that even in the village many walk in encephalitis. From the first moment you realize how far you have come.
Please note that the heliport is wet through and through - and this despite the fact that the rains here were expected for the second month like manna from heaven. In fact, the soil is specially watered, because otherwise every takeoff and landing of a helicopter would turn into a local dust storm:
The company dealing with the airports of the Krasnoselkup region has an unusually beautiful name. Actually justified - after all, Mangazeya is a hundred kilometers down the Taz.
Here, too, there is a check-in desk, a luggage scanner and a drive, only they are all small, small. However, I already saw a similar terminal in Kodinsk, from where I flew not by helicopter, but by a minibus-sized airplane. For some reason, the old scheme of Krasnoselkup hangs in the departure hall:
View of the airport from the village. In the absence of land roads, the entrance stele stands right here:
And in general, I want to say that I did not like flying in a helicopter. The advantage is that the helicopter does not have such a painful decline as small aircraft, but the flight itself at the level is quite difficult - either pitching, or vibration, or noise, or an uncomfortable position (sideways), but rather all together in an hour and a half, the flight is completely unsettling, I departed from both flights almost all day. Finally - the same Mi-8 in the sky, returning to Krasnoselkup from Tarko-Sale:
In the next part, about Krasnoselkup itself, where I spent a total of 4 days.
SEVER-URAL-2016
Trip review and series table of contents.
Selkupia
Helicopter over the tundra.
Krasnoselkup.
Dead road. Taz river and Dolgiy station.
Dead road. The village of Dolgy and a hike along the line
Oil and gas region- there will be posts.
Gornozavodskoy Ural- there will be posts.
The unofficial "gas producing capital" of Russia is one of the few regional cities - Novy Urengoy. Helipads for this city are simply necessary because of the inaccessibility in some places. Being in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the rivers Evo-Yakha, Tamchara-Yakha, Pura and Sede-Yakha flow through the city. And given the range of deployment and the high pace of industry, it is necessary to develop the infrastructure of helipads.
The airspace itself is nothing more than a piece of territory specially equipped for helicopter takeoffs and landings. A land allotment, a platform on a ship or a building, on a roof or in a hangar can be used as a plot or territory. In Novy Urengoy, the helipad is located at the local airport. It is ground-based, on a solid basis and, according to the time of operation, belongs to the permanent ones.
Starting from 2014, the Okrug government launched the YNAO program, which refers to the "Development of transinfrastructure for 2014-2020". It deals with the development of the district's airports. Thus, the reconstruction of helipads and their engineering infrastructure will be carried out.
The main operator of helicopter services in the district, as well as throughout the country, is UTair OJSC. They occupy the entire area at the airport. The bulk of helicopters is located on the street, and the rest are placed in hangars. Helicopters in this region mainly operate on government orders related to industry. Private and commercial flights are most concerned with hunters, fishermen, photographers and naturalists. And taking into account the large accumulation of profitable enterprises within the borders of the remaining northern regions, local helicopter transportation is carried out on an ongoing basis. The main services are the transportation of goods and people in the interests of various enterprises.
