Salekhard (IATA: SLY, ICAO: USDD) is a federal airport in the district center of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug of Russia, located 7 km north of Salekhard. This is a civil airfield serving medium-sized passenger liners.
The airport has one runway and a heliport. It is also used as an emergency airfield for commercial trans-polar flights.
The city as an administrative-territorial unit of the YNAO has the status of a city of district significance. Within the framework of local self-government, it is an urban district with the administrative center the city of Salekhard. The composition of the municipality includes the settlement of the village of Pelvozh, which is not a municipality.
Local self-government bodies of Salekhard are:
City Duma of the municipal formation Salekhard city - City Duma - an elected representative body of the municipal formation;
The head of the municipal formation - the Head of the city of Salekhard (Head of the city) - the elected highest official of the municipal formation;
Salekhard city administration - executive and administrative body;
The Chamber of Control and Accounts of Salekhard is the control and accounting body of the municipality.
The city is located on the Poluy Upland of the West Siberian Plain at the confluence of the Poluy River with the Ob, 2436 km from Moscow. It is the only city in the world located directly on the Arctic Circle. The nearest railway station - Labytnangi - is located 16 km from Salekhard, on the opposite bank of the Ob.
Timezone
Salekhard is located in the MSK+2 time zone. The applicable time offset from UTC is +5:00. In accordance with the applied time and geographic longitude, the average solar noon in Salekhard occurs at 12:33.
