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Swiss tour operators will promote tourism opportunities of Vologda Region.
04.05.2016 16:56
On May 2nd, a delegation from Switzerland led Mr. Filippo Lombardi, co-chairman of the Parliamentary Friendship Group Russia-Switzerland at Swiss Federal Parliament arrived in Vologda to discuss guidelines for cooperation between the Vologda Region and Switzerland. This was a three-day duration visit.
On a visit to the Vologda Region, the guests from Switzerland attended the Vologda Lace Museum, Severstal, one of the leading steel and steel related mining companies, the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery and the Ferapontov Monastery.
A number of working meetings with the top leadership of the Vologda Region and a presentation of Vologda’s economic and cultural potential was arranged during the visit.
In autumn 2016 a delegation from the Vologda Oblast is to pay an official visit to Switzerland to sign a cooperation agreement with one of its cantons.
During the meetings in Vologda it was agreed to organise cultural and youth exchanges, exchange of tourist missions in order to promote cultural and tourist potential of the Vologda Region both on the territory of the Swiss Republic and throughout Russia.
The Vologda Region and Switzerland have been sustaining cultural and economic ties. The Department of Culture and Tourism of the Vologda Oblast and the RF Embassy in Switzerland started cooperation in the cultural sphere in 2011. The then Vologda Oblast Governor Vyacheslav Pozgalyov as a member of the Russian delegation took part in the Festival of Russian Culture in Lausanne in February 2011. This exhibition opened a Year of Russia in Switzerland and was a success.
In 2012 Ruth Scheidegger-Meier, daughter of the famous Swiss writer Gerhard Meier came to Vologda to present six volumes of Journal of Manufacturing, Commerce and Fashion that date from 1793 to the Vologda State Museum -Preserve. Later she presented one more unique gift to the Vologda Lace Museum, an affiliate with the Vologda State Museum-Preserve - an album with samples of fabrics dating from the 18-19th centuries.
In 2014 the collection of Western European lace and fabrics of the Vologda Museum of Lace received new exhibits from a Swiss patron of art Amelia Hussar. The gift from Amelia Hussar was timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary of establishment of diplomatic relations between Russia and Switzerland.
These invaluable gifts no doubt strengthen cultural ties between the Vologda Oblast and Switzerland and set up a partnership that will last.
A Swiss delegation will participate in the 3rd International Lace Festival VITA LACE that will be held in Vologda in 2017.
in 2014 Nestlé expanded production facilities in Vologda and constructed a new cereals line with RUR 1,7 bln investment into construction of a new production shop, installation of production and packing lines, warehouse construction, and utilities development. The launch of new production enlarged Nestlé infant cereals assortment and strengthened company’s leading positions on the markets of Russia and CIS.
Foreign companies like Nestlé have come to the region due to its convenient geographical location and local workforce. Nestlé bought Vologda baby food factory in 2003. The Vologda factory, Nestlé’s tenth facility in Russia, became the company's first one to produce baby cereals. Nestlé currently owns a production facility in the city of Vologda and constantly invests in the factory to provide new tastes and products for its local consumers.
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