Rainbow City is located on the right bank of the river Agan in the center of Western Siberia, in the north-eastern part of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Yugra.
The climate is continental, with long cold winters with strong winds, blizzards and short cool summers. There is a sharp temperature fluctuations during the day. The average annual temperature of - 3.3 degrees, the absolute minimum temperature in January - 57 degrees, the high of July - + 36 degrees. Areas equivalent to the Far North. The zone of taiga and swamps.
The official status of the city of Rainbow received August 15, 1984. The small town, which were reflected as in a mirror, and the successes and victories of our time. From all corners of the former Soviet Union came here oilmen and builders, teachers, doctors, artists and musicians. Each brought with him a piece of a distant country, its traditions and customs.
The main direction of the production of the city - oil production.
The surrounding forests are rich in pine nuts, mushrooms, blackberries, blueberries, cranberries, cloudberries, cranberries, and other valuable wild plants. From one hectare of walnut yield is 70 kilograms. The forests are inhabited by foxes, hares, squirrels, upland game, there are brown bears and moose. Numerous lakes and rivers are rich in fish.
Rainbow has long ceased to be a place of temporary residence. Today - it is a beautiful cozy city-worker with the developed infrastructure, life is no different from the big cities. The population is 47.9 thousand. People of different nationalities.