Exhibition "How the city got its name"

Khanty-Mansiysk is the most beautiful capital of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra. The only one of the centers of the autonomous districts of Russia, whose population exceeds 100,000 people.In written sources, the place where Khanty-Mansiysk is now located was first mentioned in the Chronicle of the Siberian Short Kungurskaya as the town of Prince Samara, in 1582.

The capital of Ugra was not always named Khanty-Mansiysk. The modern name of the city has its own history, as well as the first name. In the funds of the State Archive of Ugra there is a document telling how the city got its name.

Using modern multimedia projection technologies, we will tell and show you the history of the formation of the modern name of the capital of Ugra.