Strezhevoy is a town in Tomsk Oblast

Tomsk Oblast

Tomsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative center is the city of Tomsk. Population:...

, Russia

Russia

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, located on the shores of the Ob River

Ob River

The Ob River , also Obi, is a major river in western Siberia, Russia and is the world's seventh longest river. It is the westernmost of the three great Siberian rivers that flow into the Arctic Ocean .The Gulf of Ob is the world's longest estuary.-Names:The Ob is known to the Khanty people as the...

's canal. Population:

It is served by the Strezhevoy Airport

Strezhevoy Airport

Strezhevoy is an airport in Russia located 4 km southeast of Strezhevoy. It contains a large tarmac laid out in a civilian use configuration, and services small transports. It is possible that the airfield was designed for military use during the Cold War....

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It was founded in 1966 as a settlement near the village of Strezhevaya and was granted town status in 1978. OAO Tomskneft, a Tomsk-based oil production company controlled by Rosneft

Rosneft

Rosneft is an integrated oil company majority owned by the Government of Russia. Rosneft is headquartered in Moscow’s Balchug district near the Kremlin, across the Moskva river...

, is located in Strezhevoy, and the town grew up around the company's expanding needs. Most of the town's housing and all of its major public amenities were constructed around the company's needs in the 1960s and 1970s.