Cape stone, Gulf of Ob. Cape Kamenny (village)

There are many places on the geographical map of Russia 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 step onto 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 a navigator, then find the capital of the district on the map - 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 bank of the Ob 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 navigator I.N. Ivanov back in 1828 became fatal. And all because in the language of the indigenous Nenets population 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 the mistake and even built a two-meter mound in honor of Ivanov on the shore of the Malygin Strait. It is called “Thurman-Yumba” - Navigator’s Mound.

A little 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 separately, and the distance between them is from 1 to 5 km. But if you look at a map of the USSR from the 40s to the 60s of the last century, you will not find this village. And all because of secrecy. After all, in 1947 of the 20th century, construction of a secret port of the Northern Navy began here. Later it turned out that the depth of the water area near the Gulf of Ob is too shallow, so it would not be possible to place a port here, but the airport has already been built, and a closed military base is being placed on it to guard the borders of the USSR.

In the 50s, the airport began to accept 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 were installed, from which the first gas was produced in 1981.

The third part of the village of Cape Kamenny (ZGE) was built in the 80s. In the future, thousands of meters of wells were drilled, the construction of hundreds of drilling rigs, and the discovery of new oil and gas fields.

But 1992 struck. The USSR collapsed, many industries, including oil and gas production, fell into decline. People who worked in Kamenny Mys, from whose photo you can see how inhospitable the peninsula is, were looking for something better. The population falls from 6 thousand to 2.

Pressure oil pipeline

But time passes, a new century begins, and a new round of exploration of the earth’s bowels begins. 2013, February, construction of a pressure oil pipeline began from the Novoportovskoye field to the acceptance and delivery point near the village of Cape Kamenny. The first line was completed by 2014, construction of the second has begun.

The length of the oil pipeline was 102 km, and the pipe diameter was 219 mm. Harsh climatic conditions and difficulties in construction could not stop the desire to get rich 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 Lugansk regions of Ukraine. The social sphere here is very developed. It’s hard to believe that you are in the North, everything is so civilized - post office, hospital, clinics.

Simultaneously with the second line of pipelines, in 2014 they began to build a subarctic terminal in the village of Cape Kamenny, which will allow loading liquid fuel into tankers that can sail both by sea and along rivers. The planned volume of loadings is up to 6.5 million tons per year.

In 2017, construction began on a power plant with a gas turbine, which is planned to be put into operation at the end of this year. It will supply electricity to the residential microdistrict "Geologist". At the same time, structures are being built to collect and purify water, which will also be supplied to residential areas.

Social facilities are also being built - kindergartens, schools, residential buildings. Apartments in new buildings are intended both for relocating residents from dilapidated housing and for new arrivals.

Village (formerly settlement) of the Yamal region. Population - 1745 inhabitants as of 2005, incl. Nenets 517, Khanty 9. According to the 2002 census, Russians 57%.
As of April 2010, more than 2 thousand people live. During the 2010 census, 1653 permanent residents were counted, in 2015 - 1311 people.
There are bakeries, international telephone communications, an airport (which receives even small planes), an over-the-horizon tracking station, a hospital, a boarding school, hotels, shops, utilities, police, a ski resort, the border outpost "Cape Kamenny" of the Separate Arctic Border Detachment. .
Former outpost of geologists.

The name comes from a geographical cape named back in the 19th century. When Lieutenant Ovtsyn carried out the first cartographic operation of the Ob Bay, he wrote on the map on the west coast: “the place where the stone samoyad roams.”
After which it was generally accepted that the bank of the Ob in this area was exclusively rocky. The same as on the Kola Peninsula. However, Ovtsyn’s “stone samoyad” meant nothing more than the Nenets wandering in the foothills of the Urals. After the war, having examined the coast, scientists came to the conclusion that there was an exclusively sandy bottom, and most importantly, there was shallow water all around.
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During World War II, it was the site of a brilliant counterintelligence operation.
The failure of Operation Wunderland in 1943 forced the Nazis to change tactics and launch massive attacks under water. An operation codenamed “Cat Leap” began - a blockade by submarines of the western section of the Northern Sea Route.
Having revealed the enemy's plans, Soviet intelligence officers carried out a counter-operation. A clearly organized campaign of disinformation against the enemy was planned and carried out, as a result of which the Nazis’ attempt to create a German base in the Ob Bay area, which would have ensured the enemy’s access to the vital Arctic convoy route, was thwarted.
It was decided to imitate a naval base in the Cape-Kamenny area. German aviation intensively flew over the Northern Sea Route and our military believed that the dummy would definitely be noticed by the enemy and make them wary.

Construction equipment, and, of course, cheap labor - prisoners from the camps of Vorkuta and Salekhard - were urgently delivered to the area of ​​​​the villages of Novy Port and Cape Kamenny. In record time, wooden piers, unique in their design, were erected for allegedly basing Soviet submarines.
Operation Cat Leap was canceled without even starting. German surface ships never entered the Kara Sea again. When the threat passed, construction was stopped. The pier at Cape Kamenny was soon washed away by storms, and the unique pier in Novy Port (it spanned tens of meters, like a suspension bridge, over the water), built according to the design of prisoner of war Gustav Beckman, became part of the Novoportovsk fishery complex and is still in use.

The idea of ​​building a naval base was returned to again in 1947. In 1947-1949. large-scale secret construction of a whole complex of port facilities for the deployment of the fleet is underway (501 GULAG construction). The work was carried out by prisoners of the Ob forced labor camp, mainly German prisoners of war. It was supposed to build a railway from Salekhard to Novy Port and Cape Kamenny. The fleet base itself was to be located in Cape Kamenny, and various auxiliary facilities were built in Novy Port.
Construction was almost completed, but in 1949 it was urgently curtailed.
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The new port was supposed to be used as a stronghold on the Northern Sea Route, as well as to house the main forces of the Northern Navy.

An active supporter of the construction of a new base for the Northern Navy was the famous polar explorer I.D. Papanin and his comrade P.P. Shirshov, who by that time had become a consultant to V.M. Molotov on the development of the North.
On February 4, 1947, the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted Resolution No. 228-104-ss "On design and survey work to select a site for the construction of a port, a ship repair yard in the area of ​​the Gulf of Ob and the railway from the North Pechora Mainline to the port. Survey work on the railway was ordered to begin immediately and be carried out at the expense of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the port - at the expense of the Main Northern Sea Route (GSMP). They were scheduled to be completed by August 1, 1947. Already on February 17, 1947, the Northern design and survey expedition was organized, and the first group. surveyors took off on a special flight to the area of ​​Cape Kamenny just three days after the decision was made to carry out design and survey work. In the same urgent manner, teams of surveyors and designers were formed and sent there in March, having created support bases in Vorkuta, Salekhard and Novy Port. began field work, which was to be carried out in the least explored areas of the Soviet Union. On April 22, 1947, the Council of Ministers of the USSR adopted Resolution No. 1255-331 - ss, in which it obliged the Ministry of Internal Affairs to immediately begin construction of a large seaport on Cape Kamenny, a ship repair plant and a ship repair plant. residential village, and also begin construction of a railway from the Pechersk highway to the port. To carry out the work, on April 28, 1947, by order of the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR S.N. Kruglov, the Northern Directorate was created, the Main Directorate of Camp Railway Construction (GULZhDS) and Construction No. 501, to which the IGL Directorate and Construction No. 502, GULZhDS of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR were also subordinated, in charge of the construction of the port. From a party perspective, the construction was supervised by the Komi Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (BKP).
The center of construction was the village of Abez, located in the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic at the confluence of the river. Usy in Pechora, south of the station. Chum. Previously, the administration of the Pechora camp, which was building the road to Vorkuta, was located there. The new construction inherited its premises and personnel. The construction department was located, as one of the former prisoners of this camp, Lazar Shereshevsky, recalled, in a long dugout. There, in Abezi, there was a headquarters column where prisoners who worked in the construction department and production camp columns were kept. Vasily Arsenievich Barabanov was appointed head of the Northern Directorate of GULZhDS (SULZhDS) and construction No. 501 of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. GULZhDS and the ITL and Construction Departments Nos. 501 and 502 had to build a railway from the station. Chum to the seaport at Cape Kamenny, 500 km long, and build a port, a ship repair yard and a residential village there.
In May-June 1947, SULZDS began work. On May 13, excavation work began from the station. Chum to the East. On August 2, 1947, the first bridge “501st” across the river was put into operation. Vorkuta (There is a photo of this event in your exhibition) The construction was so important that it was financed at actual costs through the Promstroibank of the Komi ASSR.
By December 5, 1947, train traffic was opened on the Chum - Sob section, with a length of 118 km. The last 31 km of this section passed through the territory of the Tyumen region. The road through the Polar Urals was laid along the Sob-Eletskaya valley, cutting right through it. Since time immemorial, the "worga" - the trail of reindeer herders - has passed along this pass in the mountains. The Yeletskaya station was located on the territory of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, and the Sob crossing, to which the highway approached by December 1947, was already on the territory of the Priuralsky district of the Yamalo-Nenets national district of the Tyumen region. In less than 5 months of work, 10 construction divisions were organized. Ob camp, which in 1948 became the main one in the SULZhDS system.
By the end of 1947, it became clear that the construction of the port would require a huge amount of building materials that were not available nearby. Hydrographic studies of the water area of ​​the future port and approaches to it from the Kara Sea have shown that extensive work will be required to deepen the bottom, which will not provide depths sufficient for large ocean-going ships. The first lighter, which arrived at Cape Kamenny with the opening of navigation in 1947, was unable to get closer to the shore than 2-3 kilometers due to shallow water. And yet, by the end of July, the first construction camp arose on the Cape and preparations began to receive the next echelons of construction units and equipment.

By the end of 1947, the designers came to the conclusion that it was necessary, first of all, to build a railway to the mouth of the Ob, in the area of ​​the village. Labytnangi, and located on the opposite bank of Salekhard. This opened up unimpeded transport access to the northern part of the vast Ob-Irtysh basin. The construction of a seaport on Cape Kamenny was proposed to be carried out at the next stage, relying on the construction and technical base prepared in the Salekhard-Labytnangi region.
For 1947-1949 In the area of ​​the future port, 3 camps were built in the villages of Yar-Sale, Novy Port and Cape Kamenny. The prisoners built a five-kilometer pier and storage facilities from larch. The development of the route in the area of ​​the station took place in an island-like manner. Sandy Cape at 426 km (village Yar-Sale). The construction of a port on Cape Kamenny and the construction of a railway to it were finally abandoned in 1949. It was this year that the “502nd” construction interrupted the construction of a secret facility
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In the first quarter of 1948 (apparently not earlier than May), the Zapolyarny ITL (Zapolyarlag) began operation, which existed until February 1949, its administration was stationed in the area of ​​Cape Kamenny (Yamalo-Nenets District). The camp housed up to 2,000 prisoners who were building a deep-sea port and a ship repair yard.

Territorial division

Unofficially divided into three parts: Airport, Geologists, Polar Geophysical Expedition.

Name

There are several versions about the name of the village. The main one says that at one time the translation from the Nenets language was incorrectly carried out, and as a result, instead of “Sandy Cape” (“Pesalya”) we have “Cape Kamenny” [ ] .

Geography

Story

The village of Cape Kamenny appeared long before the ZGE base. There was an alternate airfield, and the village. YNRE. The ZGE base was built in the 1980s.

Economy

The village is located at the Gates of the Arctic oil terminal of Gazpromneft PJSC.

Since 2013, construction of an acceptance and delivery point began near the village, as part of the development of the Novoportovskoye field.

Gallery

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Oil terminal "Arctic Gate"

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Acceptance and delivery point "Cape Kamenny"

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Heat and water supply pipes covered with wooden decking between buildings in the village

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Sunset during the white nights in the village

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Yard in the "Geologists" area

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Piles of scrap metal on the shore of the Ob Bay in the village of Cape Kamenny

Population

The main population is Russians and indigenous people - Nenets. Over the past few years, the number of Russian visitors from Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan has increased.

Infrastructure

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Anatole had a passport, and a travel document, and ten thousand money taken from his sister, and ten thousand borrowed through Dolokhov.
Two witnesses - Khvostikov, a former clerk, whom Dolokhov used for games, and Makarin, a retired hussar, a good-natured and weak man who had boundless love for Kuragin - were sitting in the first room having tea.
In Dolokhov’s large office, decorated from walls to ceiling with Persian carpets, bear skins and weapons, Dolokhov sat in a traveling beshmet and boots in front of an open bureau on which lay abacus and stacks of money. Anatole, in an unbuttoned uniform, walked from the room where the witnesses were sitting, through the office into the back room, where his French footman and others were packing the last things. Dolokhov counted the money and wrote it down.
“Well,” he said, “Khvostikov needs to be given two thousand.”
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Dolokhov slammed the bureau and turned to Anatoly with a mocking smile.

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Logistics to Cape Kamenny is one of the areas of sea cargo transportation that our company carries out. This is a settlement in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. The village of Cape Kamenny is located on the shore of the Yamal Peninsula, on the left bank of the Ob Bay, the largest bay in the Kara Sea, the watershed between the Gydan Peninsula and Yamal. Conventionally, it is divided into three parts, the names of which are historically determined: Airport (Aviators), Polar Expedition and Geologists.

Once upon a time, the settlement was created as a base for a geophysical expedition to the Arctic. Over time, two other enterprises appeared here. Previously, the infrastructure and culture here were better developed. Over time, some residents settled in other cities, leaving the Far North, but today more than 1,500 thousand people live in the village. This means that in addition to supplying the oil terminal at the Novoportovskoye field, local residents may need cargo transportation from Cape Kamenny to other Arctic or Russian ports. We also undertake the delivery of any cargo not only during summer navigation, but also in winter, accompanied by icebreakers.

Basically, the population is employed in the field of medicine, education and culture: there are schools in the village, including a music school, cultural centers, gyms, hospitals and a kindergarten. The local utility company uses fuel extracted directly from sources in the village. Transportation of various building materials to Cape Kamenny is relevant: it is easier to deliver bulky cargo and equipment by sea.

The district administration is gradually cleaning up the village, which has been littered since Soviet times - large landfills have recently been cleared out.

Shipping scrap metal, decommissioned equipment and machinery from Cape Kamenny by sea is more profitable than delivery by road. Not far from the village is the settlement of Novy Port, in the vicinity of which the Novoportovskoye oil field is located. In this regard, tankers with oil produced in Novy Port and other cargo ships regularly ply along the Northern Sea Route.

Transport to Cape Kamenny is available both by land and by air. But it is sea delivery that is a profitable and economical means of sending goods, since it allows you to pack both piece (general) cargo and liquid cargo, such as oil, bulk cargo - coal, sand, ore.

In the summer, thanks to the port-marina, motor ship communication between the village and other cities of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug becomes possible. It is planned to develop another oil field near the settlement, which will require the delivery of additional materials and equipment to Cape Kamenny. The planned development of the Arctic regions, including this village, assumes improved conditions in the very near future. Perhaps ships will be able to arrive through the Kara Sea to the port of Cape Kamenny, which will be in no way inferior to other large port points.

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