District of Sheksna

General Information

Square: 2.500 sq km

Total Population:36,500

Able-bodied population: 14,250

Population of Sheksna settlement: 18,600

Level of unemployment: 2,0 %

Total number of entrepreneurs: 503

Legal entities: 464

City Code: 81751 - for trunk, international calls and for calls within the oblast

Geographic location

The district is located in the South of the Vologda Oblast. The waters of the Sheksna and Rybinsk reservoirs (Volga-Baltic Waterway) flow through its territory from north to south. It shares boaders with the District of Kirillov in the north, the District of Cherepovets to the west and the south, the District of Vologda to the east. It is situated in the vicinity of consumption markets of Moscow and St.Petersburg, Eastern Europe and Scandinavia. The centre of the district is the settlement of Sheksna. Thanks to its advantageous location the district of Sheksna is an investor magnet in the spheres ranging from industry to agriculture to food industry to tourism.

The district of Sheksna is situated at the intersection of the main Russian transportation lines:

• Highways - road of federal importance Vologda - Novaya Ladoga (9,000 cars a day);
• Waterways (the Sheksna River) - Volga-Baltic Waterway (7,500 ships during navigation period);
• Railways - Northern railway (190 trains a day).

Nature

Forest fund: 142,9 ths has.

Natural resources: gravel and construction sand (with total reserves of 36377 ths cu m), brick earth (deposits of 9764 ths cu m), peat (38423 ths cu m), boulder (with the reserves equalling 741 ths cu m)

Inland waters: 6445 ths cu m

Climate: temperate continental with long winters and short warm summers

Protected areas (2193has.): protected sites of rivers, lakes and brooks, riversides, marshes rich in cranberry, wood-grouses' mating places, wells with drinking water, forests, archaeological monuments and a monument of architecture (country estate of landowner Sychyov in the village of Pogorelka).

Industry

In the branch structure of industry, forest and woodworking industries take a dominating position. The proportion of woodworking articles makes 53,8 % in the total volume of the district's industrial production, flour-grinding and groats industry - 32,3 %, food industry - 10,8 %, light industry - 1,7 %. A range of products includes fibreboards, chipboards, merchantable wood, MDF boards, sawnwood, flax fibre, dairy products, confectionery, flour and mixed fodder.

Main enterprises:

• OOO Fibreboard Company (forest industry)
• OAO Sheksna-mebel (forest industry)
• Chebsarsky Lespromkhoz (forest industry)
• OAO Sheksna Food Company (food industry)
• OAO Battery Farm Sheksninskaya (food industry)
• Sheksna bakery (food industry)
• OAO Butter-Dairy (food industry)
• OAO Sheksna Linen Factory (light industry)
• Sheksna Grain Company (flour-grinding and groats industry)

Agriculture

Agriculture of the District of Sheksna is represented by more than 20 enterprises of various organizational and legal forms. By virtue of natural conditions and economic factors, the following branches are developed historically in the district - poultry keeping, cattle-breeding, production of eggs and dairy produce.