Ukhta

• En Name — Ukhta • Ru Name — Ухта • Loc Name1 — Уква • Loc Lang1 — Komi • Federal Subject — Komi Republic • Adm Inhabloc Jur — town of republic significance of Ukhta • Adm Ctr Of1 — town of republic significance of Ukhta • Inhabloc Cat — Town • Urban Okrug Jur — Ukhta Urban Okrug • Mun Admctr Of1 — Ukhta Urban Okrug • Leader Title — Mayor • Leader Name — Grigory Konenkov • Pop 2010census — 99591 • Pop 2010census Rank — 166th • Established Date — 1929 • Current Cat Date — 1943 • Postal Codes — 169300 • Dialing Codes — 8216 • Website — http: mouhta.ru

Oil springs along the Ukhta River were already known in the 17th century. In the mid-19th century, industrialist M. K. Sidorov started to drill for oil in this area. It was one of the first oil wells in Russia. There was homecraft oil field in 1920–1921 in Ukhta. Lying on the river of the same name, the settlement was founded as the village of Chibyu in 1929, but in 1939 it was renamed Ukhta. It was granted town status in 1943 when it was linked to the Pechora Railway. To the east of the town is Sosnogorsk, and to the southwest Yarega. In addition to the rail link, there is Ukhta Airport. The town expanded in the 1940s and 1950s by use of political prisoners' forced labor (see: gulag).

Within the framework of administrative divisions, it is, together with four urban-type settlements (Borovoy, Vodny, Shudayag, and Yarega) and thirteen rural localities, incorporated as the town of republic significance of Ukhta—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the town of republic significance of Ukhta is incorporated as Ukhta Urban Okrug.

Ukhta lies within the Timan-Pechora Basin, an important oil and gas-producing region. The oilfields lie just south of the city. Some of the Ukhta's oil is refined locally; most is piped to oil refineries between St. Petersburg and Moscow. There have been a few gas pipeline explosions eight kilometres (five miles) from the town since the 1990s.

Ukhta has a continental subarctic climate (Dfc) with long, very cold winters and short, warm summers. Compared with areas at a similar latitude in Siberia, winters are less extreme, but still much longer than summer and bitterly cold by European standards.

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