About Surgut
Surgut is a city and port in Khanty-Mansi autonomous okrug (district), Tyumen oblast (province), Russia, on the Ob River. Incorporated in 1965, Surgut is one of the main administrative and supply centres of the Western Siberian oil fields. Surgut has an enormous thermal-power station. The city is linked by railroad with Nizhnevartovsk to the east and Tobolsk and Tyumen to the southwest.