En Name: | Labytnangi |
Ru Name: | Лабытнанги |
Other Name: | лапыт нангк |
Other Lang: | Khanty |
Other Name1: | Лабытнаӈгы |
Other Lang1: | Nenets |
Coordinates: | 66.6572°N 66.4183°W |
Map Label Position: | bottom |
Image Coa: | Coat of Arms of Labytnangi (Yamal Nenetsia).png |
Federal Subject: | Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug |
Adm City Jur: | town of okrug significance of Labytnangi |
Adm Ctr Of: | town of okrug significance of Labytnangi |
Inhabloc Cat: | Town |
Urban Okrug Jur: | Labytnangi Urban Okrug |
Mun Admctr Of: | Labytnangi Urban Okrug |
Leader Title: | Head |
Leader Name: | Leonid Savchenko |
Pop 2010Census: | 26936 |
Established Date: | 1890 |
Current Cat Date: | 1975 |
Website: | https://lbt.yanao.ru/ |
Labytnangi (Russian: Лабытна́нги; from Khanty: лапыт нангк; lit. seven larches; Nenets: Лабытнаӈгы. Labytnaŋgy) is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the left bank of the Ob River, 20km (10miles) northwest of Salekhard. Population:
It was established in 1890.[1] It was granted urban-type settlement status in 1952 and town status in 1975.
Labytnangi is connected to the European Russia by a branch of the Konosha-Vorkuta railway. It is the terminus station on this short stub branch; however, it was built in the early 1950s by Gulag inmates as the first stage of a large project under which the railway would have crossed the north of Tyumen Oblast and reached Igarka on the Yenisei River. The project was abandoned after Joseph Stalin's death.
Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is incorporated as the town of okrug significance of Labytnangi—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts.[2] As a municipal division, the town of okrug significance of Labytnangi is incorporated as Labytnangi Urban Okrug.[3]