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The city is located in the southern part of the Timan Ridge, in the valley of the Ukhta River and its tributary Chibyu (Pechora basin), 333 km northeast of Syktyvkar.

Oil springs along the Ukhta River near modern city have been known since the 17th century. In the middle of the 19th century, the Russian industrialist M.K. Sidorov drilled one of the first oil wells in Russia near Ukhta. In 1920–1921, there was a handicraft oil industry here. At the beginning of 1929, the village of Chibyu was founded near the field in the place where the Chibyu River flows into Ukhta.

In 1939, this village was renamed Ukhta. The city of Ukhta has been considered since 1943.

The hydronym Ukhta has an ancient Finno-Ugric origin, as evidenced by the widespread use of the names "Ukhta" and its variant "Okhta" in the hydronymy of the North of the European part of Russia.

There is a legend that the term "Ukhta" itself once probably meant a reservoir (river or channel), hence the name of the city located on the shore of the reservoir.

Another, more ancient legend explains the name of the city as follows: once the leader of the northern people was sailing along the river in a boat, who was looking for a place for a new settlement. It was in the summer, when northern nature, ungenerous in greenery, finally reaches its peak. He sailed for several days, but all in vain, there were only swamps around, the travelers were already beginning to despair and wanted to turn back, when suddenly the river began to narrow and a magnificent sunset opened up to the leader’s gaze. The whole sky was lilac-pink, and the sunny path was reflected in the river, as if inviting travelers to step on it. Holding his breath from what he saw, the leader exclaimed: “Wow! (according to other sources, “Oh you!”) What a beauty! So they decided to name the settlement founded here later.

There are mineral springs in the vicinity of Ukhta. There are factories "Ukhtagazstroymash" (machinery for the construction of gas pipelines), forestry engineering, mechanical (construction equipment), a furniture factory, and food industry enterprises.

The city of Ukhta is included in the directory of geographical names, as it is a large industrial centre and, in addition, the center of the oil and gas industry of the Russian north. This is where the main Natural resources countries.

That there is a combustible domanic stone on the Ukhta River. In 1697, Peter got hold of it and sent samples to Holland. But the reformer tsar never got around to Ukhta. V.N. Mainov in his essay "The Forgotten River" (about a trip to the Pechora) in the magazine "Picturesque Russia" for 1881 wrote: "...Peter was not up to Pechora, when the Neva was the same unexplored country." A paradoxical parallel can be drawn: the northern lands are now explored, but probably only the Ukhta old-timers remember that the Chibyu River was once clean and full of fish. In the minds of most citizens, it has long been a stream, and very dirty and fetid.
"Red" river
On July 18, the Chibyu River struck the townspeople with an unusual color of water: this color was given to it by liquid flowing from a pipe under the bridge along Oktyabrskaya Street. Less than a week later, the Chibyu River turned red again. On the morning of July 24, colored water flowed from the same pipe. The river remained a bright "landmark" of the city until the evening.

According to the head of the security department environment Administration of Ukhta Irina Yushchenko, engineers of the enterprise "Spetsavtodor", serving the city storm water, conducted a thorough inspection of the wells. She suggests that if the first release could be considered one-time and random, now the purposefulness of unauthorized discharge is already obvious. “We will make inquiries to the city organization and find out who was involved in the repair of the heating main during this period. To carry out these works, the organization must obtain official permission from our department and comply with the order strictly on schedule. In addition, all waste must be taken to treatment facilities,” Yushchenko said. On the same day, water samples were taken and sent to the testing laboratory of MUP "Ukhtavodokanal".

The quality of water is characterized by its transparency, turbidity, color, smell, taste, reaction of the environment, the content of dissolved salts, the degree of chemical, bacteriological pollution, etc. We analyzed the water from the river.

Objective: analyze the water taken from the river.

Material and equipment: water sample; glass vessels; test tubes, burette for titration, flasks.

Reagents: solutions of sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, silver nitrate, barium chloride, potassium thiocyanate, lime water; universal indicator.

Progress

We took water from the Chibyu River, in the middle reaches, near the recreation park for adults.
We poured water into a beaker and examined it against the light. The water is very cloudy, which indicates a large amount of impurities
To determine the color of water, a white plate was dipped into a glass of water. The color of the water is brown, light brown.
The smell of water is swampy, very noticeable, easily detected, which indicates putrefactive processes occurring in the water.
After a daily settling, a flocculent yellowish-brown precipitate is found.
To determine the reaction aquatic environment we used a universal indicator. To do this, the test water was dropped onto a piece of universal indicator paper. Then the obtained color of the water was compared with the pH scale. The pH of the studied water is about 3.5, which indicates an increased acidity of the water.
To determine the presence of dissolved salts, two clean and defatted glass slides were prepared. A few drops of the investigated water were applied to one, and distilled water to the other. They evaporated the water from the glasses and compared them. Distilled water does not contain dissolved salts, so the glass does not turn white. A white coating on another glass indicates a large amount of dissolved salts.
To determine the qualitative analysis of water for anions and cations, schemes for studying the basic solution were used.

A quantitative analysis was made for the content of cations in the test solution using the titrimetric method. The analysis showed that lead ions - 0.04 mg / l (MPC - 0.03 mg / l), calcium - 1.5 mg / l (MPC - 1.8 mg / l), iron - 10 mg / l (MPC - 0.03 mg / l -0.5 mg/l).

According to the results of the study of water from the Chibyu River, the following conclusions can be drawn:

By revising physical properties observed high degree pollution of the reservoir;
laboratory tests showed a high content of various ions that negatively affect all living things;
the negative impact of the anthropogenic factor on the ecosystem of the reservoir (household waste, municipal waste, industrial effluents from enterprises).

Filippov Nikolay Ivanovich

Our sweet Chibyu River.

Our Chibyu river is small, narrow, sometimes quiet, sometimes nimble, free, murmuring and having fun, all year round hurries, runs into the arms of her older sister-girlfriend, the river Ukhta, dividing our beautiful and beautiful city of Ukhta into old and new parts. Taking water from the swamps, it passes through the city with a length of only a little more than three kilometers, delighting the inhabitants of the city with its cheerful, turbulent course. She, this small river, does not even know that she was the very first in Russia to show the pioneers exploring the bowels of the earth her underground storerooms. On October 25, 1930, it became the main witness of the work on its banks of the first well for industrial oil production, the first oil field discovered in the north of the country for the first time.

No wonder the inhabitants of the city named one of the streets of the city after her, there is a hotel "Chibiu". However, some of our residents forgot about the great merits of our Chibyu river, abandoned it, poor thing. Dirty, clogged with sewage, various household waste, overgrown with shrubs along the banks, it does not resist the rudeness of dishonorable people, continues its tireless work all year round.

Our most beautiful and beautiful city in the north of the country, called the "pearl of the north", is really beautiful with its buildings, decoration, good planning, green spaces. This is a great merit of the former head of the city Alexander Ivanovich Zeryunov (Chairman of the Ukhta City Executive Committee), who invested a lot of effort in the construction of Lenin and Cosmonauts Avenues, the buildings of Glavkomigazneftestroy and Gazprom Transgaz Ukhta, polyclinic No. 2 and a balneary, the city Palace of Culture and the hospital complex the city of Sosnogorsk, the liquidation of barracks, etc. For his merits, as a sign of respect and gratitude, an avenue on the right bank of the Chibyu River was named after him.

If Alexander Ivanovich had to live and work longer in our city, he would undoubtedly equip the channel and banks of our eminent Chibyu river. It seems now that he would have gathered in his office (and he often practiced this) the heads of large enterprises of the city, set them the task of determining the customer for drawing up a project for the improvement of the channel and banks of the Chibyu River, finding funds, transferring to a specific account and providing the necessary assistance in human and material resources.

Residents of the city desperately need a real, good park of culture and recreation. As such, we have a park of culture and recreation, but a number of new ones can be called appropriate for the purpose. The winter pavilion - the hut - is already falling apart. There are no attractions, entertainment and playgrounds that adults could use, they were dismantled and the metal structures were scrapped. The territory of the park is not landscaped.

Not in the best shape is the water-filling area in the summer, located near Lyceum No. 1, where wild ducks have already begun to fly. I would like to see a permanent boat rental station on the flood pond. Here it would be a permanent resting place for citizens admiring pairs of white swans and other waterfowl. But, despite the undeveloped and littered reservoir, the townspeople with families and children come to admire the smooth surface of calm calm water, to breathe in moist fresh air.

The financial budget of the city is full of large and small holes, like an old sieve of a grandmother from a fairy tale. Being a resident of our city for over 50 years, I don’t remember a case when the city’s financial budget once converged to the waist, that is, to zero, income, expenditure, constantly deficit, deficit. There is no reason to hope for funding for the development of the channel and banks of the Chibyu River from the federal, republican, and even more so city budgets.

In our beautiful city we live, teach and educate our children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren. No matter how difficult, but we have always strived for the best, beauty. Yes, the task is not simple - the arrangement of the channel and banks of our small and sweet Chibyu river. But it is necessary to find a way out, and we have it:

The first is to unite. Create a separate fund to raise funds for the improvement of the channel and banks of the Chibyu River with the name, for example, “Let's equip the Chibyu River” (with the creation of such a fund to raise funds for such an important cause, I would be the first to make my monetary contribution from my “large” labor pension ). Is it bad that, at the initiative of Russian President Putin V.V. , one of the first in the country's government to make a financial contribution to the construction of a monument to Stolypin, it was erected near the government house.

Second. To ask Mayor Igor Mikhel to organize a meeting with the heads of large industrial enterprises, trade and other organizations, to accept financial support in drawing up a project (if it is not available) for the arrangement of the channel and banks of the Chibyu River, the length of which in the city is only a little more than three kilometers, and natural water area, which will become a real recreation area for our citizens. Or maybe we, the inhabitants of the city, will be lucky that one of the financially wealthy people or collectively make a decision and cover the banks of the reservoir with a noble colored stone? This would be great.

Berdnikova Julia. The city of Ukhta - "Pearl of the North"

chibiu - small tributary Izhma and the village of the same name, built by prisoners in the 1920s. She laid the foundation for the village Ukhta expedition of the OGPU, arrived 21 AB 1929. The first buildings - barrack-type log houses of a room system with a common corridor, built ordinary prisoners without participation architects. In the early 1930s, on the left bank of the Ukhta River in the area of the modern streets of Mira, Oktyabrskaya, Pervomaiskaya Square, the buildings of the Camp Administration, the fire department, the VOKhR, the Operchekotdel, and the commandant's office were built. On the right side of the river 1932 near the camp No. 1, a working settlement was built for civilian employees: a dining room, a food stall, a commandant's office, a red corner, a medical center, a bathhouse, a club, one-story residential buildings of a standard type for four families each. 26 DK 1933 Chief camps Moroz Ya.M. ordered the construction of a new cultural center Ukhtpechlaga. A pine forest on the left bank of the Ukhta River was chosen as a place for it, i.e. territory of modern historical parts of the city. The design organization quickly prepared the necessary documentation. AT 1934 a special percussion construction Group and a special group for the cultural and artistic design of objects under construction. Its leaders were the former artist of the Harbin Theater Mikhailov N.I. and architect-artist from Moscow Levin Yu.V. The work was supervised by the head of the camp Ya.M. Moroz, who said more than once that "the city should be bright and cheerful." AT 1935 in the village of Chibyu, the architects Orlov and Kalinovsky appeared, convicted of counter-revolutionary activities for five and ten years, respectively. The first in In the 1930s, he built a two-story wooden building of school No. 1 and the central house of culture, and the second - designed industrial and various economic facilities. AT 1937 the architects Levitan and Zhizhimontov arrived at the design department, convicted of counter-revolutionary activities, respectively, for eight and five years. Levitan was immediately connected to work in his specialty. He designed a whole series of buildings on the street Pushkin- very expressive two-storey wooden houses. Zhizhimontov, until 1945, was assigned to the art workshops of the Ukhta Theater and was only occasionally involved in the design. The modern streets of Oktyabrskaya, Pervomaiskaya, Krems were equipped, the buildings of the department store, canteen, clinic, Soviets, stadium. Their work is strongly influenced by traditions antique architecture. At the first stage of the construction of the city, wood was the main building material, but this did not prevent architects and builders from creating buildings using elements classical architecture: columns, porticoes, colonnades. Distinctive features of this stage of construction were also individuality each project. Next to the new houses stood oil towers, which gave a special contrast to the new city. Almost no buildings from this period have survived.

Considered at meetings of the village council and the issue of creating master plan construction and development of the village. Moreover, the heads of various departments of the Ukhtkombinat interfered with its creation and did not make their proposals. However, in k. 1939 - n. 1940 plan The first plan for the planning and development of Ukhta under the leadership of Orlov, Urban, Zhizhimontov, Levitan was completed. AT 1937 The village was renamed into a city. In the early years of Chibyu construction, each enterprise had its own design organization, which was extremely inconvenient in the conditions of large-scale construction. 26 OK 1937 a single design department was created under the management of Ukhta plant. AT 1937 the design department was replenished with newly arrived architects - Urban, Krushelnitskaya, Kozhevnikov, Pchelin. AT FV 1939 in Chibyu, a village council was created. One of the issues that he dealt with was monitoring the housing and communal condition of the village. The main problem was the lack of housing for civilians, of whom there were 3,500 since 1939. human, while the total area of 45 residential buildings was 12.5 thousand square meters, i.e. less than 4 sq.m per person. With such a state of the housing stock, no housing construction was planned in the village for 1939. By that time, the village already had 3 schools, 3 clubs, a library, 2 kindergartens, a nursery, 2 baths, a post office, a telegraph, a telephone exchange, and a radio center. AT 1942 Architect Urban built the first three-storey stone house for the employees of the Ukhta CHPP. But in military For years, there was no major construction in Ukhta. During this time, the architects Levin and Pchelin died. The city continued to be a branch of the Ukhtpechlag, which was part of Gulag. The extraction of radium, oil, gas, the construction of a site railway Kotlas-Vorkuta; logging.

The emergence of the village (early XX - 1928)

Ukhta City Council. Brief information

The emergence of the village of Chibyu.

REFERENCE

SIDOROV MIKHAIL KONSTANTINOVICH (March 16, 1823, Arkhangelsk - July 12, 1887, Aachen) Participated in the organization and financing of expeditions to explore the North. Numerous expeditions were organized at the expense of Sidorov, including the British captain D. Wiggins, who several times penetrated the Ob and Yenisei through the Kara Sea. Sidorov also participated in the equipment of the expedition of the Swedish polar explorer A. Nordenskiöld.
In August 1864, M.K. Sidorov organized a river shipping company on the Pechora.

KALITSKY KAZIMIR PETROVICH (4.3.1873, St. Petersburg, - 28.12.1941, Leningrad).
Soviet oil geologist, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences, professor (1941). His main works are devoted to the problem of the genesis of oil and the formation of its deposits. Developed the hypothesis of the origin of oil from marine plants. He believed that the migration of oil does not play a role in the formation of oil deposits.
K. P. Kalitsky compiled one of the first textbooks on oil geology (1921).

GUBKIN IVAN MIKHAILOVICH (1871-1939) - Russian geologist, founder of Soviet petroleum geology, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929).
Graduated (1903-1910).
In 1918, I. M. Gubkin, at the suggestion of V. I. Lenin, became a member of the Main Oil Committee, and from 1919 he was the head of Glavslanets. In 1920-25 he was chairman of the Special Commission for the Study of the Kursk Magnetic Anomaly (KMA). From 1920 professor, from 1922 rector of the Moscow Mining Academy, from 1930 rector, head of the department of geology and oil fields.

GANSBERG ALEKSANDR GEORGIEVICH (born 6. 9.1857, Latvia) - mechanical engineer, oilman. Graduated from the Riga Polytechnic.
On Ukhta since 1899, where in 1905 he began production drilling. From a depth of 30 sazhens, oil came out - 130-150 pounds per day. The work went on with long interruptions due to lack of funds. Hopes for obtaining large oil did not materialize, and the "Partnership" organized by him broke up in 1914. In 1915 he built an oil refinery, began to produce kerosene for the population and lubricants for shipping on the Pechora. In the spring of 1919, the Whites captured the area of the Ukhta River, Gansberg was accused of assisting the Soviet government and was escorted to Arkhangelsk. Further fate unknown. (Encyclopedia of the Republic of Komi, 1997)

Ukhtapechlag 1929 - 1938

Ukhta expedition of the OGPU

In 1929, the OGPU sent a large expedition here. From Arkhangelsk, the expedition arrived by sea on a steamboat at the mouth of the Pechora, then by river boats to the village of Shchelyayur, and then to the village of Izhma, where the equipment was again overloaded, and the expedition set off along Izhma and Ukhta.
On August 21, 1929, the expedition, which included 125 people - prisoners (political, criminals, "household workers"), dispossessed, exiled, civilian workers, security guards - arrived at the mouth of the Chibyu River. The construction of the village, called Chibyu, began. By the time the expedition arrived, there were only two old buildings on the shore. A 12-hour working day without days off was introduced, and logging for buildings was carried out. Spent the phone in Ust-Ukhta.
In October and December, 2 more groups of prisoners arrived, and by the beginning of 1930, according to A.N. Kaneva, there were about 200 people here. In six months, 2 barracks, a kitchen, a punishment cell, etc. were built. In November 1929, a camp power structure took shape; the head of the camp point was Ya.M. Moroz. In official documents, the Chibyu Labor Colony was called The base of the Ukhta expedition of the OGPU.
In October 1929, a prominent geologist arrived here N. N. Tikhonovich. The expedition drilled several shallow structural wells. By the spring of 1930, a drilling rig (No. 5) was built. In the autumn of 1930, the well gave an industrial flow of oil.
In 1930, a workshop was built (5 machine tools and a forge with one hearth), which became the basis of the future mechanical plant.
That same year, several new rounds of prisoners arrived in Chibyu. In the middle of 1931 there were already approx. 2000 prisoners.
In July 1931, the Ukhtpechlag Administration was located in Chibyu, which included 5 camp departments; in Chibyu itself there was the 1st camp (1st Fishery).
During the years of the 1st five-year plan, the first dirt road Chibyu-Ust-Vym was laid.
In 1932, a small power plant was built to illuminate the village, the first school for civilian children was opened, a working camp for special settlers and colonized people was laid, a state farm 1 km from the mouth of the Chibyu (in Ydzhyd).
On July 1, 1933, there were 4666 prisoners in Chibyu, 206 civilians, 421 colonized, 313 special settlers.
In the summer of 1933, they transferred to Chibyu from the village. Izhma Ukhta-Pechora Mining and Oil Technical School, for which an educational building and a hostel were built.
In 1933, 2 new buildings were built for the workshop (forging and mechanical departments), new equipment appeared. At the same time, on the site of the old craft of the 1920s. a single-cube periodically operating oil refinery was built, which began to work steadily in 1934.
In 1934, electricity began to be generated for industrial needs.
In August 1936, a decision was made to build the Ust-Vym-Chibiu railway, but it was soon revised, and in Sept. In the same year, surveys began on the future Knyazhpogost-Chibiu highway.
In 1936, Chibyu had two-story wooden houses for civilians and colonized, barracks for prisoners, a school, an educational building and a hostel for a mountain technical school, a theater club (a theater troupe of prisoners was organized in the camp), a park with a summer theater, a department store, a stadium , a canteen, a hotel, there was a water supply system, a sewerage system, a radio network, camp newspapers "Northern Miner" (since 1931), "Vyshka" were published.
The settlement was officially divided into streets: Zavodskaya, Komsomolskaya, Neftyanaya (Bushueva), Embankment (Gubkina), Pervomaiskaya, Oktyabrskaya, Pionerskaya (Pervomaiskaya Square). In the mid 1930s. the village, even in official documents, was often called " Chibyu City".
On October 27, 1936, a massive protest hunger strike of Ukhtapechlag political prisoners began. For 132 days, the starving people demanded the separation of political prisoners from criminals, normal food, and an 8-hour working day.
In the summer of 1937 there were 6890 prisoners. In 1937, there were 1,220 civilian employees in Chibyu.
In the second half of 1937, all the Ukhtapechlag newspapers (Northern Miner, Vyshka, On Guard, On Watch, At the Shipyard, Trakt) and the magazine Nedra Sovetskogo Soyuz were closed.
On March 1, 1938, mass executions of political prisoners of the Ukhtapechlag began in the area of the Yun-Yaga River. The punitive operation was led by the famous executioner, GULAG detective lieutenant E. I. Kashketin. In total, about 3 thousand people were shot.
(According to the Ukhta-Pechora branch of the Memorial society, in 1937-1938 they were shot: in the village of Chibyu - 86 prisoners, in the region of the Ukhtarka River - 1,779. In total, over these 2 years, they were executed by various methods, without deaths from hunger and disease - 2,614 people).
On October 26, 1938, the village of Chibyu, Izhma District, was transformed into a workers' settlement; the camp authorities gave way to the leadership of the civil administration.

Ukhtarka. Cemetery without a name

This place cannot be called a cemetery in the civilized sense of the word.
The burial is located on the Ukhtarka stream, which flows into the Ukhta River in its upper reaches - in the forest. It can only be reached on foot. The burial place is marked by several rough wooden crosses driven into the ground. This burial is connected with the horrors of the humiliation of the camp authorities over the prisoners, and the events that took place near these places in 1937-1938.
Here is how an eyewitness describes the events that took place in those distant times (quoted verbatim): “Every night they executed on Ukhtark. During the day, the prisoners dug their own graves, and at night they were shot. The performers lightly covered the corpses with earth, and a new batch of convicts made further backfilling. And then she dug her own grave. Here is a conveyor. On one of these nights, these special agents locked the prisoners in the barracks, many, more than a hundred of them were there, doused the barracks with diesel fuel and set it on fire. When it flared up like a torch, some kind of pillar, enclosed from the inside, apparently standing up from the bunks, managed to knock out the barrack door. But those who ran out of this fire were mowed down to death with a machine gun by guys from the team of that Chekist. ( cm. The oldest cemeteries of Ukhta)

REFERENCE

NKVD USSR

TIKHONOVICH NIKOLAI NIKOLAEVICH (1872 - June 17, 1952) - Soviet geologist.
Graduated from Kharkov University (1897). From 1904 he worked in the Geological Committee.
According to the “Geolkom case” of 1929 (a counter-revolutionary and espionage organization in the Geological Committee), N.N.
In 1943-52 he was a professor.
Basic works on oil geology. Conducted hydrogeological surveys in the Southern Urals, geological research on Sakhalin, in the Emba basin, East Kazakhstan, the North Caucasus. He made an important contribution to the geotectonic and paleogeographic study of the Timan-Pechora oil and gas basin, as well as to the study of the deep structure and oil content of the Devonian of the Russian Platform.

Ukhta is a city.

Chibyu village - Ukhta village - Ukhta city

In the winter of 1938-1939 The first village Council of Deputies was elected and began to operate. According to A.N. Kaneva, in the autumn of 1938 there were 3654 civilians in Chibyu, the Komi made up less than 6% of them.
In July 1939 G. Chibi was renamed Ukhta. In the same year, a thermal power plant was launched, an oil refinery was put into operation, replacing the previous primitive installation.
November 7, 1939 opened the movement of trains on railway Aikino-Shezham-Ukhta.
In 1939-1940, according to A. Sivkova, the leadership of Komi put forward the idea of moving the capital of the republic from Syktyvkar to Ukhta in order to bring the republican authorities closer to the northern districts, the development of which was actively carried out at that time; it was assumed that the transfer of the capital would contribute to "further advancement of culture to the north". The arrangement of the new capital of the Komi ASSR was to be carried out in 3 years by the forces of prisoners gathered from all the camps of the republic.
The Council of People's Commissars of the USSR postponed consideration of this proposal until 1941, and the outbreak of war put an end to these plans.
During the Great Patriotic War a gas processing plant was evacuated to Ukhta from Maykop, which was developed in the II half. 1940s - early. 1950s
20 November 1943 worker the village of Ukhta was transformed into the city of Ukhta. Then it was ok. 6 thousand people In 1944, a railway technical school was opened. transport.
The first stone buildings appeared in the city in the middle. 1940s (mining and oil technical school and 2 residential buildings). In the 1940s in Ukhta, a mechanical, foundry, boiler-welding and blacksmith shops of a mechanical plant were built. In 1952, 21.4 thousand people lived in the city.
In 1953, the autotractor shop of the mechanical plant was commissioned, central repair and mechanical workshops were built for the repair of logging equipment (repair and mechanical plant).
Since November 12, 1953, Ukhta has been a city of republican subordination.
The Ukhta City Council was formed.
In 1958, a forestry technical school was transferred to Ukhta from Syktyvkar.
In the same year, a new Druzhba cinema was built in the city.
In 1959, the first large-panel house was built.
On July 23, 1960, TV screens in Ukhta lit up for the first time. As part of the Ukhta television studio, there were editorial offices of Latest News, social-political, youth, children's, film production with a complete technological. cycle. The Ukhta studio covered us with its broadcasts. Ukhtinsky and Troitsko-Pechora districts.
In August 1971, television programs began to be broadcast from Moscow and Syktyvkar. The Ukhta television studio closed on April 30, 1976.
In 1960-1965 several new buildings for the mechanical plant were built (forge shop, metal structures shop, etc.).
On March 21, 1967, the Ukhta Industrial Institute was opened.
On August 22, 1981, the State Ukhta City Museum of Local Lore was opened. Expositions: "Geology and minerals of the Timan-Severoural region", "Flora and fauna of Ukhta and the suburban area", "Ethnography of the Komi people and Russian peoples of the North"
(in 1983 a branch was opened - an office-museum Andrei Yakovlevich Krems).
In 1990, the construction of the Emva-Ukhta highway was completed.
In the same year, the second ski stadium in the republic was built in Ukhta.
On April 20, 1995, two policemen were killed while on duty in Ukhta. This is the first case in the history of the Komi militia since the 60s.
In the same year, on April 27, there was an explosion on the Ukhta-Torzhok gas pipeline near Ukhta.
In 1996 it received the status of the State Museum "Nature of the Earth". The museum was created (1948) on the private initiative of its director Kirill Fedorovich Sedykh
(more than 50 years ago, as a boy, he ended up in a German concentration camp near Leningrad. And after his release, he immediately landed in the Soviet one). Of particular value are insects, bones of extinct animals, a pelican (1849), a penguin, a crocodile, a lynx, a seal, and a bear cub. The largest exhibit is a stuffed African lion shot in 1861 ( cm. ).
On May 13, 1997, boxer Eduard Zakharov, master of sports of international class, champion of Russia in 1994, participant in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta (USA, 7th place) was killed in Ukhta.
On December 29, 1998, the premiere of the first striptease show in the republic took place in the Ukhta restaurant "Timan".
On June 6, 1999, a monument to A. S. Pushkin was unveiled in Ukhta. The author of the monument Nikolay Bruni from an illustrious Italian family. Grand opening monument took place on the day of the 200th anniversary of the poet. The opening was attended by Bruni's relatives - daughter Anna, daughter-in-law Zoya and two grandchildren - Mikhail and Alexei (by the way, Alexei is a famous violinist, plays his grandfather's violin) cm. The rebirth of the monument
In 1970, 80 thousand people lived in the city, in 1989 - 112.1 thousand people.
In 2000 - 100.2 thousand permanent residents.

REFERENCE

KREMS ANDREY YAKOVLEVICH (1899-1975) - Russian geologist, doctor of geological and mineralogical sciences (1947). In 1938 he was repressed, worked until 1940 as a prisoner as a geologist in the design of the Yaregskaya oil mine in the Komi ASSR.
Works related to the geological exploration of oil and gas fields. State Prize of the USSR (1947, 1951).
Professor at the Ukhta Industrial Institute (late 1960s-1975).
A species from the brachiopod class in the Devonian of the Russian Platform is named after him.
cm. Oriental sage on the banks of the Ukhta

Nature of Ukhta

Natural monuments of Ukhta

ROCK OUTPUTS of the Timan Ridge with remains of vegetation and relict insects along the banks of the rivers Ukhta, Sedyu, Domanika, Chuti.
EXPOSURES with minerals and fossils of the Devonian, Carboniferous and Jurassic periods on the rivers Ukhta, Domanik, Chut, Sedyu, Suzu, Izhma, Badiol.
KARST - karst basins, sinkholes, caves and disappearing rivers and streams on Timan - pp. Slightly, Sedyu, Izhma, Ukhta, Ukhtarka.
Here it is worth noting the infamous karst caves on Ukhtarka. Local places are considered "bad". Several people have gone missing in these forests. This is explained by the frivolity of tourists. Caves are not visible from above, but one careless step - and a person falls into the depths of the earth. It is almost impossible to get out of such a cave alone. And one more thing - on the territory of karst caves there is a high concentration of burial places of former prisoners, many of whom lived in terrible conditions and died long before natural death ..
MINERAL SPRINGS with healing water, located in the city area - highly mineralized, deep bromine and often iodine healing mineral waters.
Ukhta GEOLOGICAL MONUMENT, created on March 29, 1984. It is located along the Ukhta River from the Sirachoy tract to the mouth of the river (Ukhta City Municipality). The sediments of the lower part of the Ukhta Formation of the Frasnian Stage of the Upper Devonian are limestones and dolomites with interlayers of clays, siltstones, less often sandstones. Has scientific value.
LYAYOL GEOLOGICAL MONUMENT, located in the middle reaches of the Lyayol River and in the lower reaches of the Sedyu River - the left tributaries of the Izhma River.
The primary outcrops of the Frasnian stage of the Upper Devonian: the Lyayolskaya suite, are represented by Domanik-type limestones, bituminous marls. A unique co-occurrence of deep sea and normal marine fossil fauna: ammonoids, brachiopods, ostracods, conodonts, spores and pollen.
It is of exceptional scientific importance.
NEFTYOLSKIY GEOLOGICAL MONUMENT is located on the right bank of the Ukhta River between the mouths of the Neftyel stream and the Yarega River.
The stratotypical section of the Timan Formation of the Upper Devonian is represented by variegated clays with thin lenses and interlayers of organogenic limestone. Rich complex of brachiopods, pelicepods, gastropods, ostracods, conodonts.
WHITE KEDVA, a complex reserve. It is of particular value; multiple populations of rare species of plants, lichens, vertebrates and invertebrates have been found on its territory.
CHUTYINSKY GEOLOGICAL MONUMENT is located on the right bank of the Ukhta River in the region of the mouth of the Yarega River, on the right bank of the latter, 1 km from the mouth and on the left bank of its tributary, the Chut River, in the region of the bridge.
The section of the stratotypical Upper Devonian Ust-Yarega Formation is represented by deposits of greenish-gray clays with interlayers of knotted organogenic limestones. A rich complex of fossil fauna of marine organisms: brachiopods, ostracods, corals, etc.
Created by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Komi ASSR on March 29, 1984.
CHUTYINSKY COMPLEX RESERVE, located in the upper reaches of the Chut River, the left tributary of the Ukhta River (terr. Municipality "City of Ukhta").
Spruce and pine forests, bilberry, long moss and sphagnum forests predominate. There are larch-blueberries. Stand height 12-18 m, maximum up to 30 m, cf. diam. pines - up to 22, spruces - 20-24, larches - up to 24 cm.
The reserve was created by the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the Komi ASSR on October 24, 1967 to preserve favorable conditions for the reproduction of valuable game animals.
The local population actively uses forests and reservoirs of reserves and natural monuments for recreational purposes - for hunting and fishing, as evidenced by fresh footprints on the ground, fires, chopped trees, the presence of used hunting huts, motor boats, bird traps. In some protected swamps used by locals to collect cranberries, a decrease in its stocks has been noted.
PARASKINY LAKES water monument of nature (1989), near the village of Tobys, 52 km of the Ukhta-Syktyvkar highway. According to legend, the Paraskina Lakes are named after Praskovya, a local resident (Praskovya Kirillovna Mikhailova), who has lived since the late 1920s. in the area of the Ukhtarka river near the Ukhtpechlag lagpuk (see USTU Museum).
And here is what you can read about this lake on the site uhta.net:
"About the lakes, you can learn more ...
Approximately the 42nd kilometer (or the 52nd ... oh, I haven’t been in my homeland for a long time) on the Ukhta-Syktyvkar road, exit to the right in front of the Ukhtarka River (like)
there, already along the knurled road to a muddy lake, there, in any case, you will run into the river tobys.
it’s cool there, and the river and lakes are 100 meters away, it’s nice to go fishing around the forest with white moss, you can pick mushrooms, beautiful places are horror
that lake that is transparent, turn from the road to Syktyvkar to the right immediately after the Ukhtarka River, there is still such a large area cleared, taxi all the time to the right along the forest road, I think you will find it, on the odometer like 3-4 kilometers from the highway, I recommend this lake, especially you don’t buy in it (it’s hard to enter from the shore - snags), but it’s noticeably more beautiful, if you have a rubber boat - be sure to take it, there is also a forest around, the places are wonderful, the lake is completely transparent 5-7 meters deep, very beautiful. Along the same road, you can get further to a dark lake, but it’s not so interesting there, there is a swamp around, and it itself is less pleasant to look at, but the fishing is better than on the others.