The capital of Yamal is celebrating the 421st anniversary

The capital of Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug the town Salekhard is celebrating its 421st anniversary on the 11th of September.

The town named Obdorsk was founded by Russian Cossacks in 1595, and since 1933 it had received the name Salekhard, in 1938 it received the status of the town. It is the only one town in the world situated in the latitude of the Northern Polar Circle. By right, it is one of the most attractive places of the Russian Arctic, as the press-service of the governor of Yamal informs. Originally Obdorsk was the outpost of the Russian state on northern boarders of the Fatherland. The whole chronicle of exploration of the Russian Arctic was reflected in history of Salekhard. During the time of strengthening of the Russian state and extension of its borders Cossacks, merchants, missioners brought new economic relations, cultural ties, religion to the Arctic. Today Salekhard is the administrative center of the strategically important Russian region, where 80% of the whole gas and 10% of the whole oil of the country are extracted. This is a socially and cultural active, modern and comfortable town, where northerners of tens of nationalities reside in peace and harmony, with their work forming prosperity of Yamal and greatness of the Fatherland.