Among dozens of petrogrades of the Yugra North (such as Nizhnevartovsk, Kogalym and Noyabrsk) and its two small administrative centers (Khanty-Mansiysk, Salekhard), Surgut stands apart – the largest Siberian city north of the Trans-Siberian (340 thousand inhabitants), almost the same age as Tobolsk, most similar to a large and noisy center of a rich region.
Basically Surgut looks something like this - gray high–rise buildings, tall new buildings, excellent roads, a general view of well-groomed and affluence. For 100 years, the city has grown 100 times, was built extremely thoroughly, and there are few traces of its past guises, remembering shaggy geologists and Komsomol first-builders.