Brief historical information

1637 - Foundation of the Samarovsky Yam. (horse-drivers with their families were dispatched to settle there by the Tsar Mikhail decree)
1675 - The first traveler, an Envoy from Moscow Nicolai Gavrilovich Spafariy Milesku, visited Samarovo on his way to China
The end of the XVII century - A well-known traveler, Ebergard Isbrant Ides, visited Samarovo, the settlements of horse-drivers
1708 - Samarovo joined the Siberian Province
Summer of 1712 - The Siberian Metropolitan Filofey Leschinskiy visited Samarovo to Christianize the Ob Ostyaky
1722 - The establishment of the Yam Department aimed to protect the interests of the yams, and the Yam Office
July 2, 1740 - Professor Lil with his companion Kenigsfeld installed the observatory at the Samarovo Hill and carried out a series of observations
40s of the XVIII century - Gerard Fredric Miller, famous traveler and scientist, visited Samarovo on the assignment of the Russian Academy of Science to collect and study the information on the History of Siberia
1748 - According to the census data, 487 horse-drivers lived in Samarovo. In administrative and postal terms, Samarovo was referred as USamarovskiy Yam, a Sloboda of the Siberian District of the Tobolsk Province on the Eastern bank of the Irtysh in the Tobolsk Discrete.
1808-1816 - Construction of the stone Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin
1838 - Samarovo was a village having a church, chapel, building of the district administration, post office, salt and baker's shops, college, and tavern. There were about 200 houses in
1853 - The 9th census results showed that 370 men and 350 women lived in Samarovo
1858 - The merchant Ryazanov obtained the 10 years permit to provide a steamship communication between Tobolsk and Beryesovo and built a 36 horse-powers steamer
1860 - The first trip from Tobolsk to Beryesovo with calling at Samarovo took place
1861 - The beginning of the scheduled steamship communication on the Irtysh River
1873 - The construction of a new quay and corduroy.
June 29, 1873 - His Imperial Highness, Grand Duke Aleksey Aleksandrovich visited Samarovo
1879 - The Governor-general of the Tobolsk Okrug visited Samarovo and introduced the idea to connect Tobolsk and Samarovo by telegraph communication covering the distance of 500 miles
The end of the 80s of the XIX century - A.A. Dzerzshinskiy and A.A. Pavlinov began to accomplish the village. The streets were marked, the buildings that were found to be on the traffic ways were destroyed, streets were paved
July 9, 1891 - A well-known French ethnographer Sharl Rabo mentioned Samarovo in his works
1889 - His Imperial Highness Cesarevitch Nikolai Aleksandrovich (Nikolai II) visited Samarovo
1906 - The first group of 20 political convicts arrived to Samarovo
1910 - The completion of the telegraph line connecting Tobolsk, Surgut and Beryesovo
1912 - 1923 - The construction of the first hospital started
January - April 1918 - The establishment of the Soviet Regime in the Ob North
1919 - Samarovo was the main supporting center of the Partisan movement an outstanding representative of which was Platon Loparev, Hero of the Civil War
1921 - The kulaks (rich peasant) revolt broke out
1923 - The establishment of the Tobolsk Okrug subject to the Ural Oblast. Samarovo became a subject of the Okrug
1925 - The construction of the first radio station and small electric power station on the Samarovskaya Mountain
1930 - The construction of a fish canning factory and the beginning of canned fish production. The appearance of fishing fleet and new fishing instruments and gear
The beginning of the 30s - A timber mill, primary school, hospital, post office and radiotelegraph appeared
December 1930 - January 1931 - The Presidium of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee issued the Decree on the establishment of the Ostyako-Vogulsky National Okrug. Y.M. Roznin was appointed chairman of the Organizational Bureau. At a distance of 5 kilometers from Samarovo the foundation of the first buildings of the okrug administrative center was being laid
Summer, 1931 - The first printing-house was opened
1931 - The "Severstroy" Administrative Department was established. The first in the okrug public institution - The House of the Aboriginal - was built
30s of the ХХ century - The construction of the Medical and Pedagogical colleges, commercial school etc. The airline Tyumen - Tobolsk - Samarovo - Beryesovo - Salekhard started
1932 - The construction of the regional library
1934 - The first electric power station was put into operation. The electric lighting on in the streets and in the sound-cinema appeared. The T.B. prophylactic centre, X-ray room and 2 dental cabinets were opened. A brick-making plant started to function
1935 - The square (later the Victory Park) was laid out. Ostyako-Vogulsk was ranked as an urban settlement. The Rural Council was transformed into the Village Council
1936 - Opening of the Museum of local lore, history and economy
1937 - A new building of the electric power station appeared at the crossroads of the Komsomolskaya and Dzerzshinskogo Streets. Presently, it is a building of the Municipal Unitary Enterprise "City Power Circuit"
1938 - The population of Ostyako-Vogulsk totaled 7.5 thousand people
1940 - ОOstyako-Vogulsk was renamed into Khanty-Mansiysk, but the status of the city was given to it only in 1950. In sixties of the XX century Khanty-Mansiysk began to develop as a base station for explorers. A geophysical investigation station and the Association "Khanty-Mansiyskneftegasgeologia" were situated in it. A Hydropathic hospital was put into operation.
40s - 50s - An "academic town" with log houses in it was built. It became a support center for polar farming and cattle breeding
July 1, 1951 - The Khanty-Mansiysk geophysical expedition proceeded to on-regular-basis exploration
1967 - The Television Center was opened. A new airport construction work began.
June 4, 1972 - The provision on the conferring of the title of "Honored Citizen of Khanty-Mansiysk" was issued
70s of the ХХ century - The construction of the concrete runway of the airport
1977 - The Palace of Culture "Oktyabr" holding 600 seats, the first 5-storey building made of precast concrete, buildings of the State Bank, Shopping Centre were completed
December 29, 1979 - The Geological Production Association for carrying out gas and oil exploration works was established
1990 - The Yugra-Yamal Writers Association was created. In 1977, it was renamed into the Khanty-Mansiysk Writers Association.
1991 - The President of the RF B.N. Yeltzin visited Khanty-Mansiysk
1992 - The Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug became a subject of the Russian Federation and gained the right to form its budget independently
1993 - The Forth International Folk Festival of Finno-Ugric peoples took place in Khanty-Mansiysk
March 28, 1995 - The Okrug Duma passed the law on the status of Khanty-Mansiysk as a capital of a subject of the RF
1996 - The construction of a highway of federal importance was completed. An annual ecological festival named "To save and to preserve" was launched out
1997 - Open championship on Biathlon "Cup Yugra - 97" of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug commenced and became recurrent
1993 - 2002 - The years of active construction of the city. Original apartment houses, office buildings, banks, cinemas, a Center of Arts for Gifted Children, Skiing Center, Museum of Gas and Oil, Business-Trade Center and other buildings appeared in the city. The city transformed into a modern capital of business, science, tourism, sport and culture - the capital of the Okrug Yugra
2000 - Summer Biathlon championship. Biathlon Junior World Championship
2001 - First international music festival "Yugra"
2002 - International investment forum named "Russia: oil, energy, progress". Competitions IBU Grand Prix on biathlon. The second international music Festival "Yugra"
2003 - Biathlon World Championship. The first International Film Festival "Spirit of Fire"
September, 6 2004 - Putting into operation a complex of kindergarten buildings (three buildings with floor space of 7900 m2) for 420 children on the Ostrovskogo street. All buildings were joined by underground passages. There were formed 21 groups of children aged from 3 to 6.5 years old
September 11, 2004 - A celebrating ceremony devoted to the extraction of the 8th billiard ton of oil in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra. Putting into operation a bridge over the Irtysh River, 1.4 km in length, which made it possible to organize a through communication rout of 1.500 km connecting the western part of the Okrug with Nyagan, Ivdel, the Sverdlovskaya oblast and Perm
October 22, 2004 - A new Wedding Palace (civilian registry office), having individual rooms for a fianc? and fianc?e, a room for children, a buffet room, two halls for conducting wedding registration ceremonies, a subdivision for issuing Marriage and Divorce Certificates, Birth Certificates and other acts of civil status, was put into operation. The first six marriages were registered in it
March, 2005 - World Cup Final and IBU Mixed Relay World Championship took place in Khanty-Mansiysk
August, 2005 - A social establishment building "Specialized House for the Aged People "Veteran" was put into operation. It is a 4-storeyed building consisting of 26 apartments (two 2-room apartments and the rest - one-room apartments), equipped with a passenger lift. The first floor is occupied by a doctor's consulting room, procedure unit, rest rooms and a training
September 1, 2005 - Putting into operation school #1, named after Y. Sozonov. The erection of The Monument to Teachers and Pupils, who perished during the Great Patriotic War in front of school
December, 2005 - The presentation of the book "From Prince Samar period" took place. In the authors' opinion, the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug traces its roots from more ancient times that it has been considered before
January, 2006 - The completion of the first stage of construction of secondary school #6
March, 2006 - A symbol stone was placed at the construction site of sport facilities of the Tennis Academy of Yugra. Several tennis-courts with modern surface covering and audience stands for 3,4 thousand spectators were in the construction project. The construction works were planned to be completed in a year. The Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Alexander Filipenko, the President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpischev, and the Leader of the Regional Unit of Russian Tennis Academy Andrey Yuzhniy took part in the ceremony
March, 2006 - The elections of deputies of the Duma of the 4th convocation took place in Khanty-Mansiysk. During the first sitting of the Duma of the 4th convocation Vasiliy Filipenko was voted chairman of the Duma. Tatyana Volgunova was elected vice-chairman of the Duma. Four Committees were formed in the Duma: 1- the Budget Committee headed by Ulyana Solodovnikova; 2 - the Committee on Education, Culture and Healthcare headed by Lyubov Korneeva; 3 - the Committee on Social Policy and Municipal Services headed by Andrey Bukarinov, 4 - the Local Self-Government Committee headed by Lyudmila Glebova
June, 2006 - A campaign aimed to raise funds to build the Memorial to the victims of Stalin's political repressions commenced. The Memorial appeared at the crossroads of the Sverdlova and Pionerskaya Streets in front of school #5 on October 1
July, 2006 - The 1 summer sports and athletics youth competition was conducted in Khanty-Mansiysk. Sportsmen from 73 regions of 9 federal districts of Russia took part in the competition. Over 2570 young men and women (207 teams) competed in 24 kinds of sports. The total number of people including sportsmen, coaches, supervisory and service personnel, field judges was 4252 persons
August, 2006 - The 7-th regular conference of the International Biathlon Association was conducted. Representatives from National Federations from 52 countries of the world discussed the problems of the future development of Biathlon, elected new members of the Board of the International Biathlon Association, and decided the places for conducting next International Championships and World Cup stages
October 1, 2006 - The Ceremony of opening of the Memorial to the victims of Stalins's political repressions took place. The Memorial was built on charitable donations. A 4-meter's concrete stele, coated with granite, with a crack in the center, symbolizes a division of the society into "insiders" and "outsiders", that is "reliable Soviet citizens" and "Public enemies". Stele is supplemented by the imitation of a log-house made of bronze with the address plate on it. It symbolizes the Commandant's office, where the exiled people had to be registered. A female-shaped bronze figure mourning for the perished is standing near the Stele. The territory of park around the Stele is divided into several zones. It has been decided to leave the ground behind the Monument without grass, so that every member of political convicts' families could take a handful of ground with him. It is possible to lay the flowers on the pedestal of the Monument, which symbolizes the grave
October 15, 2006 - In the second round of elections Valeriy M. Sudeykin was elected Governor of Khanty-Mansiysk