Сургут – Березово – Мужи – Ханты-Мужи – Салехард – Новый Киеват – Октябрьское – Ханты-Мансийск – Уват – Тобольск

Surgut is a city in Russia, the administrative center of the Surgut District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, the largest city in the district and one of the few Russian regional cities that surpass the administrative center of its subject of the federation (Khanty-Mansiysk) both in terms of population and industrial potential.

Geographical location. It is located in the north of Western Siberia. A river port is on the right bank of the Ob River (the most important in the Ob region), 10 km from the railway station, 250 km east of Khanty-Mansiysk, 708 km northeast of Tyumen.

Territory: (sq. km): 213

Population: 291.800 residents (2005).

Local time: Moscow time + 2

Beryozovo is an urban-type settlement, the center of the Beryozovsky District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Beryozovo was founded by the Cossacks in 1593 for further Russian colonization in the Ob north and soon became the largest trading city in Siberia. The city of Beryozovo in the medieval  period was an important center of Russian development of Siberia and a strategic point on the way to Asian Russia.

Geographical location. It is located on the left bank of the Severnaya Sosva River (a tributary of the Ob), 222 km away. 400 km from the Obobye railway station, from the district center of Khanty-Mansiysk: 64° north latitude and 65° east longitude.

Population: 7,044 residents

Local time: Moscow time +2

Salekhard is a town in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia, serving as the okrug's administrative centre. The town was often used as a place of exile during the Tsarist and Soviet periods. Among notable people who spent time here were the Doukhobor spiritual leader Pyotr Verigin and Leon Trotsky. The town and nearby area contained three Soviet camps where approximately 6,500 prisoners were held, arrested for their belief in God. At the port of Salekhard, approximately 1,500 prisoners loaded and unloaded goods at the dock, or mined metal ores. About 5,000 prisoners in two camps near Salekhard were assigned to polish diamonds mined from Mir mine.

Geographical location: Salekhard crosses the Arctic Circle, the main parts being about 1 kilometer (0.62 mi) south and suburbs stretching to the north of the circle.

Population: 3741 residents

Local time: Moscow time +2

Oktyabrskoye (until 1957 — the village of Kondinskoye) is an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of the Oktyabrsky District of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of Russia.

Geographical location: Oktyabrskoye is located in the coastal zone of the Ob River. The village was founded in 1590. The status of an urban-type settlement has been established in 1959.

Population: 3640 residents

Local time: Moscow time +2

Khanty-Mansiysk is a city in Russia, the center of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District Yugra.

Geographical location. The city is located in the central part of Western Siberia on the bank of the Irtysh River. Distance to Tyumen (by road) - 950 km, to Moscow-1900 km by air.

Population: 67,761 residents (2008)

Phone code: 3467

Local time: Moscow time +2

Uvat is a village in the Tyumen Region, the administrative center of Uvatsky District. The administrative center and the only settlement of Uvatsky rural settlement.

Geographical location. The village is located on the left bank of the Irtysh River, 116 km north-east of the city of Tobolsk.

Population: 5031 residents

Local time: Moscow time +2

Tobolsk is a city in Russia (since 1590), the administrative center of the Tobolsk District of the Tyumen Region.

Tobolsk was founded in 1587 on the site of the Tatar settlement of Isker (Kashlyk) - the capital of the Siberian Khanate. Tobolsk was founded on the feast of St. Nicholas. Trinity on the cape, near which the soldiers of Yermak landed during the famous battle of the Chuvash Cape, which decided the destiny of Siberia to become a part of Russia.

Geographical location. Tobolsk is located 247 km northeast of Tyumen at the confluence of the Tobol River with the Irtysh River.

Population: 112.800 residents (2007).

Local time: Moscow time +2

Tobolsk is a city in Russia (since 1590), the administrative center of the Tobolsk District of the Tyumen Region.

Tobolsk was founded in 1587 on the site of the Tatar settlement of Isker (Kashlyk) - the capital of the Siberian Khanate. Tobolsk was founded on the feast of St. Nicholas. Trinity on the cape, near which the soldiers of Yermak landed during the famous battle of the Chuvash Cape, which decided the destiny of Siberia to become a part of Russia.

Geographical location. Tobolsk is located 247 km northeast of Tyumen at the confluence of the Tobol River with the Irtysh River.

Population: 112.800 residents (2007).

Local time: Moscow time +2