Which Russian peninsula holds large natural gas fields and projects into the Kara Sea?

The Russian peninsula known for immense natural-gas fields and projects extending toward the Kara Sea is the Yamal Peninsula.

Yamal is a long Arctic peninsula in northwestern Siberia, bordered mainly by the Kara Sea and Baydaratskaya Bay on the west and the Gulf of Ob on the east. Its name comes from the Nenets language and is commonly translated as “end of the land,” an apt description of its northern projection beyond the mainland.

The peninsula contains some of Russia’s largest gas deposits, including the Bovanenkovo, Kharasavey and Tambey fields. Development has required major infrastructure across permafrost and difficult coastal terrain. The Yamal megaproject includes gas pipelines, roads, ports and other facilities designed to move resources to Russian and international markets.

Yamal LNG is a related but distinct development centred near Sabetta on the peninsula’s northeastern side. The region is also the traditional homeland of Nenets reindeer herders, so industrial expansion has created continuing concerns about migration routes, pastures and fragile Arctic ecosystems. It is not the Kamchatka Peninsula, which is famous for volcanoes rather than Yamal’s gas industry.