Talka-Salya

Talka-Salya, (form. Tarko-Sale, Finn. Talkasalja, Russ. Талка-Саля) is a Uralican city located in southeast Yamalia, just off of Highway UH-22. Its name is Nenets for "town between the rivers," referring to the Pyakupur and Ayvasedapur rivers, which merge in the northern suburbs of the city to become the Pur River.

Founded in 1932, the primary industry of the city, like many now-Uralican cities east of the northern Urals, was the production and processing of oil and gas. However, most of the resource has been tapped out. Normally, a remote settlement like this would vanish under such conditions, however two ambitious hydroelectric projects and a large mass of silver ore found nearby kept the town afloat even before Uralica annexed the area in late 2009.

After the annexation, the area got an injection of excess iron ore from the masses found closer to the Urals and in the northwest part of Uralica. It was also touted as a potential "international bush airport" location, where people from nearby countries could land civilian aircraft. This project is set to begin actual construction in the summer of 2010. Besides this job-creating venture, there are also large machine-building, food production, tool-construction, and drywall production industries in Talka-Salya.

Culture
In spite of its Nenets name, few indigenous peoples actually do live in Talka-Salya, and most of them speak Selkup as opposed to Nenets. Instead, Russians and Finns make up the bulk of the population. There are also many people born outside of what now constitutes Uralica that live in the city, with most of them speaking Northern Turkic languages. In fact, because of large Yakut-speaking minorities like those in Talka-Salya and other Yamalian cities, there is talk of making Yakut a "recognised regional minority" in the county. Evenki also has many speakers in the city.

There are a few noteworthy cultural spots in the city, in spite of its relatively young age. The most-visited one is an ethnographic museum of the two Samoyedic peoples, the Nganasan and the Selkup. There is also a Samoyedic Language Teaching Centre, where people can come to learn either Selkup or Nganasan for a small fee, and Pur River Baptist Church, which is a towering Neo-Classical structure right in the heart of town.