On the geographical map of Russia there are many places with strange names that do not correspond to reality. Most often, their origin is due to someone else's mistake. And one of these places is Cape Kamenny on the Yamal Peninsula. After all, when you set foot on its territory, you expect to see piles of stones or a mountain range. But there is a complete absence of stones. In winter - snow and ice, in summer - tundra and sand. So where does this strange name come from?
Where is he?
Finding the village will not be difficult if you enter its coordinates into the navigator: N 68°28'19.7724" E 73°35'25.2492". Although it received the status of a rural settlement only in 2004. But if you don’t have the opportunity to use the navigator, then find on the map the capital of the district - Salekhard, and draw a straight line from it to the northeast. After 380 km you will see the settlement.
Endless tundra around a small dot, a mole on the body of the Yamal Peninsula on the left bankOb Bay in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. This is what Cape Kamenny looks like on the map. But the significance of the village for the country is great.
Where does such a strange name come from? The mistake made by the navigator I. N. Ivanov back in 1828 became fatal. And all this is due to the fact that in the language of the indigenous population of the Nenets, the name of the village sounds "Pey-sala" (means Crooked Cape), similar in sound to "Pe-sala" (translated as Stone Cape). But the Nenets are not offended by a mistake and even poured a two-meter barrow in honor of Ivanov on the banks of the Malygin Strait. It is called "Turman-Yumba" - Navigator's Mound.
A bit of history
The village is divided into three parts, which clearly reflect the history of the development of the village itself: Airport, Geologists, Polar Geophysical Expedition (ZGE). Moreover, each of the microdistricts stands apart, and the distance between them is from 1 to 5 km. But if you look at the map of the USSR of the 40-60s of the last century, then you will not find this village. And all because of secrecy. Indeed, in 1947 of the 20th century, the construction of the secret port of the Northern Navy began here. Later it turned out that the depth of the water area near the Gulf of Ob was too shallow, so that the port could not be located here, but the airport had already been built, and a closed military base was placed on it, guarding the borders of the USSR.
In the 50s, the airport began to receive civilian ships. Active development of the territory of the Yamal Peninsula and its geological research began. Oil and gas fields were discovered, which began to be actively developed in the seventies. Wells have been installedwhich the first gas was obtained in 1981.
The third part of the village Cape Kamenny (ZGE) was built in the 80s. In the future, thousands of meters of drilled wells, the construction of hundreds of drilling rigs, and the discovery of new oil and gas fields were waiting for them.
But 1992 came. The USSR collapsed, many industries, including oil and gas production, fell into decay. The people who worked in Stone Cape, whose photo shows how inhospitable the peninsula is, are looking for something better. Population drops from 6,000 to 2.
Pressure oil pipeline
But time goes by, a new century begins, and a new round of development of the bowels of the earth. 2013, February, the construction of a pressure oil pipeline from the Novoportovskoye field to the acceptance point near the village of Cape Kamenny began. The first line was completed by 2014, construction of the second one has begun.
The length of the oil pipeline was 102 km, and the diameter of the pipe was 219 mm. Harsh climatic conditions and difficulties in construction could not stop the desire to enrich themselves at the expense of oil fields.
Today
If in 2014 the population in the village was only 1,635 people, then with the development of oil and gas production, the population began to increase, including due to immigrants from the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine. The social sphere is highly developed here. It's hard to believe that you are in the North, everything is so civilized - post office, hospital, clinics.
Simultaneously with the second string of pipelines in 2014began to build a subarctic terminal in the village of Cape Kamenny, which will allow loading liquid fuel into tankers that can go both by sea and along rivers. The planned volume of downloads is up to 6.5 million tons per year.
In 2017, the construction of a power plant with a gas turbine began, which is planned to be put into operation at the end of this year. It will supply electricity to the Geologist residential area as well. At the same time, facilities are being built for the intake and purification of water, which will be supplied, including to residential areas.
Social facilities are also being built - kindergartens, schools, residential buildings. Apartments in new buildings are intended both for relocation of residents from dilapidated housing, and for newcomers.
