Novy Urengoy For sure many people are hears about Russian winter. It’s an interesting topic, but I want to talk about that in next time. Today I would like to talk about one Russian city, where I w

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Novy Urengoy For sure many people are hears about Russian winter. It’s an interesting topic, but I want to talk about that in next time. Today I would like to talk about one Russian city, where I was born and where I lived 18 years. And where winter continue eight month in year. It’s called Novy Urengoy. It’s a north city which also unofficial called “gas capital of Russia”, because there are largest fields of natural gas in Russia. My parents came there on a Komsomol tour when this city was just starting to be built. First they lived in "tanks", equipped for housing (see pictures). And then they got their first apartment. A middle temperature in winter there are - 40ºC. But sometimes it may be much lower. The lower temperature what I remember was -63ºC. In that days you are really happy if you are schoolboy, because you may not go to school. Because of the northern location, night comes really fast. So, when you walk to school in early morning, it’s still dark on street. And when you returning at home (about 16:00), it’s already twilight. Night keeps most part of the time and you get used to it pretty fast. By the way, wind can be much badly than temperature. Northern or north-eastern wind can be really cold and piercing. You must wear warm clothes and it’s nesessary to cover your face, or you can get frostbite on you nose or cheecks. But winter is still funny time! When New Year comes closer, on the main square of city every year buildings ice town. In Cristmas holydays it’s most popular place in the city. At the night time ice town shining with LED lights. In spite of very cold winter, summer can be surprising warm too. In July and August temperature can be +35ºC. And one more thing for that I very-very like summer in this city, it’s a time which in Russia calles White Nights. It’s like Polar day. Night just not comes. There is day 24/7. You can hear how children play on the street, look at clocks and see 23:30. It’s continues from the end of May and to the middle of August. “Leaden sky” – it’s one more feature of Novy Urengoy, that you can see pretty often. You can see it on the pictures that I attached. Many people found it really sad and despair sight, but I think it’s a very beautiful. Autum is just fantastic time for nature of this city. Forest looks an amazing and incredibly, and it’s colored very-very bright. Well, I hope it was interesting for you :) Some pictures are here http://bit.ly/2yLlabQ

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Novy Urengoy

For sure many people have heard about the Russian winter. It’s an interesting topic, but I want to talk about that another time.

Today I would like to talk about the Russian city where I was born and where I lived for 18 years and where winter lasts for eight months in the year.
It’s called Novy Urengoy. It’s a northern city and unofficially called “gas capital of Russia”, because there are the largest fields of natural gas in Russia.
My parents came there on a Komsomol tour when this city was just starting to be built. First they lived in "tanks", equipped for housing (see pictures). Then they got their first apartment.
An average temperature in winter there is - 40ºC. But sometimes it gets much lower. The lowest temperature what I remember was -63ºC. Those days you were really happy if you were a schoolboy, because you must not go to school.
Because of the northern location, night comes really fast. So, when you walk to school in early morning, it’s still dark. And when you return home (about 16:00), it’s already twilight. Night lasts most of the time and you get used to it pretty fast.
By the way, wind can be much worse than the temperature. Northern or north-eastern winds can be really cold and piercing. You must wear warm clothes and it’s necessary to cover your face, or you can get frostbite on you nose or cheecks.
But winter is still a funny time!
When New Year comes closer, on the main square of city every year ice statues are built in town. During Christmas holidays it’s the most popular place in the city. At night the icy town twinkles with LED lights.
In spite of very cold winter, summer can be surprising warm too. In July and August the temperature can be +35ºC. And one more thing for that I very much like in summer in this city is the time Russians call 'White Nights'. It’s like a polar day. Night just does not come. There is light for the full day. You can hear children play on the street, look at clocks and see 23:30. It’s continues from the end of May until the middle of August.
“Leaden sky” – is one more feature of Novy Urengoy, that you can see pretty often. You can see it in the pictures that I attached. Many people find it a really sad and bleak sight, but I think it’s very beautiful.
Autum is just fantastic time for nature in this city. The forest looks amazing and incredible, and it’s colored very-very bright.
Well, I hope it was interesting for you :)

Some pictures are here http://bit.ly/2yLlabQ

Very well written!

Hi. Thank you ^^ Actually it's not so scary as it sounds :) Oh, and for me really hard imagin human who never seen ice :)

very interesting .. i can't imagin how it looks like when winter last 8 months and - 40 , and night come early it sound like a good scary adventure . it remaind me of TV show ( game of thrones ) , i've never seen ICE for real , but most interesting thing is how your parents lived there in tank , thanks for sharing it

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