Why Surgut Is No Longer a Desirable Place to Live and Relocate
Surgut and Nizhnevartovsk ranked very low in the rankings of Russian cities where people would like to move. For Yugra, this is an unpleasant but highly revealing sign: despite all the budgetary opportunities, northern cities are increasingly perceived as less and less convenient and interesting places to live.
Journalists Dmitry Shcheglov and Taras Samborsky discuss why Surgut ranked so low in this ranking, how the city has lost some of its appeal in recent years, what has happened to its healthcare, culture, urban environment, and infrastructure, why even Kurgan now appears better in similar surveys, and how Surgut is gradually turning into a vibrant but faceless city without a distinct urban soul.
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Timecodes
00:00 Surgut and Nizhnevartovsk are at the bottom of the rankings of cities for relocation
00:41 Why these results don't seem sensational
01:24 What might be truly surprising in this survey
02:02 Why Kurgan comes up in conversation
03:03 How Surgut used to look like an oasis of prosperity
04:10 Why working and living in the city has become more difficult today
05:00 The impact of the Tyumen-Sobyanin model on other cities in the Urals Federal District
05:52 What Surgut lacks as a full-fledged modern city
07:10 An airport, train stations, theaters, museums, and leisure facilities as signs of a normal city Life
08:32 Why Surgut has become faceless
09:20 What's happening with medicine, culture, and domestic tourism
10:10 Why even Nizhnevartovsk is almost keeping up with Surgut
10:42 Was the very model of large northern cities a mistake?
11:28 Why is it increasingly difficult for a city to support itself?
12:00 Conversation Summary
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