District of Sokol
General Information
Total area: 4.100 sq km
Total population: 57.982
Administrative centre: city of Sokol
Administrative division: 12 administrative areas
District centre population: 43.038
Foundation: city status in 1932
Distance from Vologda: 35 km
Railway station: 2 km, Sukhona
Natural resources: sand, marl, peat, tufa and loam
Inland waters: the Sukhona River and its affluents
The district of Sokol is a vast wooded area with some 71% (295,000 has) of its total land covered with forests: mostly deciduous, but also coniferous (pine and spruce). Wood is the most precious treasure of the region.
Main branches of industry: wood processing, pulp and paper industry, agriculture
Places of interest: complex of Mikhail Archangel churches (1770), a mesolite site
Renowned residents: poets V.Krasov, A.Ganin, A.Romanov, composer Valery Gavrilin, academician I.Chernyaev
News
Vologda Region Governor Oleg Kuvsinnikov and Mikhail Shamolin, President of the Segezha group signed a treaty on cooperation within the framework of XXVI St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. The parties agreed to build a new paper machine at the group’s paper factory in Sokol, Vologda region.
Sweet condensed milk (sgushchenka) is very popular in Russia. This gooey, sweet treat was a Soviet staple. Condensed milk is cow's milk from which water has been removed. It is used in cooking, for making creams for cakes and pastries.
Vologda Region Governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov took part in the solemn ceremony of launching the enterprise and start of production.
Segezha Group, a leading Russian vertically integrated holding company in the forest industry finished the construction of a pellet production facility at Sokol Woodworking Plant. The new facility will turn by-products and wood waste into biofuel pellets. Vologda Region Governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov took part in the solemn launch of the new production line.
A new skating rink in Sokol will be built by September 2022. The sports complex will meet the most modern requirements.
Sweet condensed milk (sgushchenka) is very popular in Russia. This gooey, sweet treat was a Soviet staple. Condensed milk is cow's milk from which water has been removed. It is used in cooking, for making creams for cakes and pastries.
Segezha Group, a forest industry enterprise, has launched a new industrial facility at Sokolsky woodworking plant in the Vologda Region - the drier installation for production of dry lignosulphonate.
Russia will celebrate the start of the school year and the Day of Knowledge on September 1. A new school in Sokol will open in time for Teacher’s Day this year, and this is the authorities’ contribution – and not their sole contribution – to developing education.
The unique paper machine is launched at Sukhona paper-producing mill in Sokol, Vologda Region. The mill, which is to be launched under an investment worth some RUR 2,7 bln, is expected to provide 113 new high-tech jobs.
On May 23rd Vologda Oblast Governor worked in the District of Sokol, situated in the centre of the Vologda Region on both banks of the Sukhona River. Sokol, located 35 kilometres off Vologda, is a classical mono-city. It was built in 1932, its main branches of industry being wood processing, pulp and paper industry.
Vologda Oblast Governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov is to visit all 26 districts of the Vologda Region, and the cities of Vologda and Cherepovets where he will meet with the heads of the districts and their population.
Pupils at a school in the District of Sokol (third largest city in the Vologda Oblast) will have the opportunity to learn the German Language as a second foreign language.
Sokol Woodworking Plant, one of the largest woodworking production facilities in European part of Russia, the first one to apply the glulam technology started glulam prefab houses shipments to Latvia.