Surgut
Surgut is the largest and most populous city in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Russia, located on the Ob River.
It is one of the few cities in Russia to be larger than the capital or the administrative center of its federal subject in terms of population, economic activity, and tourist traffic. The population as per the 2021 Russian censuses was 396,443.
Getting to Surgut
Direct train from Tyumen (#939) and Nizhnevartovsk (#952). Domestic flights from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Omsk, Tyumen, Khanty-Mansiysk, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Perm, Ufa, Krasnodar, Yekaterinburg, Samara, Saratov, Volgograd. International flights from Baku and Kyiv, including charter ones from Bangkok and Hurghada. The river port doesn't serve passenger transportation.
Worth seeing
- 01Surgut Art Museum
Opened in 1992 and built up from scratch this museum hosts both a permanent exhibition of the region art and culture as well as several rotating exhibitions on modern art.
- 02Holy Transfiguration Cathedral
Getting around Surgut the local way
- Get inInternational flights from Baku and Kyiv, including charter ones from Bangkok and Hurghada.
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