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The paper analyzes contradictions in social and economic development in the northern areas of the Tyumen Region; shows the need for conceptual shift in determining goals and prospects of its development. Special attention is paid to areas of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District (YNAD) where unique gas fields were discovered after the Great Patriotic War. The author studies the industrialization's effect on other spheres of activities in the region, shows how the old traditional culture of the northern population conflicted with the new industrial culture; describes methods of settling this conflict; considers prospects for the Yamal's development in the 2010s, the role of the peninsula in the Federal Project «Industrial Urals — Polar Urals», social and environmental aspects of the new stage of the Arctic Zone's industrial development.