Find the Yamal Peninsula in Northern Russia. The Urengoy gas field sits just south of the Arctic Circle, near the town of Novy Urengoy. This is where the journey begins. The terrain here is permafrost and taiga, requiring specialized pipe insulation.
Completed in 1983, it was a marvel of Cold War engineering. It connects the giant Urengoy gas field in Western Siberia to the termination point in Uzhgorod, near the Soviet (now Ukrainian) border with Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia). From there, gas continued into Western Europe. To understand its current role, one must first look at its exact geographic footprint. Gazoprovod Urengoj-Pomary-Uzgorod Na Karte