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Oct 02 2023
Alexandra Guzeva
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Seventy years of atheism couldn’t destroy Russian Orthodox Christianity. From the end of the 1980s, people began to rapidly restore destroyed monasteries and churches across the country; and, today, hundreds of thousands of people visit them annually.
03.10.2023 14:37
Vologda Butter Museum
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Semenkovo, Russia
Slather on the history at an exhibition dedicated to this Russian luxury.
26.09.2023 08:55
Ferapontov Monastery – a unique sight of the Russian North
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Russia Travel Blog
Posted by Sergei Rzhevsky in Architecture, Regions, Travel
The Ferapontov Belozersky Nativity Monastery is a monastery of the Vologda diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church located in the village of Ferapontovo, Vologda Oblast, about 119 km north-west of Vologda.
25.09.2023 14:24
Large-format birch plywood production started near Vologda
https://socialbites.ca
September 22, 2023
It is the largest facility in Russia, producing 180 thousand cubic meters. Annual production of large-format birch plywood has started in the village of Vokhtoga, Gryazovets district of the Vologda region. This was reported by telegram channel The project of the Ministry of Industry and Trade – Plitwood LLC was approved according to the results of the competition within the department.
https://www.phosagro.com
28 July 2023
St Petersburg – PhosAgro Group, one of the world’s largest producers of phosphate-based fertilizers, plans to double its fertilizer exports to Africa in the next three years, according to PhosAgro CEO Mikhail Rybnikov, who was speaking at the Russia–Africa Economic and Humanitarian Forum.
25.09.2023 09:20
“Plitwood” completes construction of birch plywood plant facilities
https://www.volwood.ru/en
Plitwood LLC – a joint project of Cherepovets Plywood Mill JSC and Vologodskiye Lesopromyshlenniki Group JSC completed the construction of the buildings of the new plant for the production of wide-format plywood in the settlement of Vokhtoga, Gryazovetsky District, Vologda Region. The main financial partner was Sberbank PJSC. The Expert Council of the Industry Development Fund (VEB.RF Group) granted a preferential loan under the flagship program “Development Projects”. The total budget of the project is more than 12.5 billion rubles.
03.08.2023 15:08
Nestle to expand infant-formula production in Russia
Nestlé is to expand its infant-formula manufacturing operation in a key emerging market, it has announced.
By Leonie Barrie
Nestlé is to spend RUB3.5bn (US$45.8m) on expanding its infant-formula manufacturing operation in Russia.
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AK&M Information Agency
Severstal and the Management Company of Lidselmash Holding have signed a long-term cooperation agreement. This was reported by the press service of Severstal.
27.07.2023 14:03
Russia, an oil giant, goes big on timber
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Mar 24, 2021
VOLOGDA, Russia: In a dense forest northeast of Moscow, logging machines cut down rows of trees as Russia taps foreign demand for its wood as part of efforts to reduce its dependence on oil exports.
Tulane News
https://news.tulane.edu/pr/tulane-university-professor-william-brumfield-receives-russian-order-friendship-medal
December 12, 2019
Roger Dunaway
Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano
Tulane University professor and contemporary American historian William Brumfield has spent much of his life traveling the vast and remote lands of Russia and documenting its unique architecture, history and literature. On Thursday, Dec. 5, Brumfield’s nearly 50 years of work and dedication was recognized by the Russian Federation during a ceremony at the Russian Embassy in Washington, D.C., where Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov presented Brumfield with the Order of Friendship medal, the highest state decoration of the Russian Federation given to foreign nationals.