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Founded: 1708; 1937
Head of the regional administration: Nikolay Ivanovich Kiselyov (elected July 2004)
Federation Council Representatives: Alexander Gennadyvich Tishchenko (executive, term expires March 2008); Yury Sergeevich Sivkov (executive, term expires December 2008)
Population: 1,335,700 including Nenets Autonomous Area; 1,294,200 excluding Nenets (2002 census)
Area: 587,400 square km (226,736 sq. miles)
Capital: Arkhangelsk (population 355,500), 1,133 km from Moscow
Other major cities: Severodvinsk (201,500), Kotlas, Novodvinsk
Federal district: Northwestern
Economic region: Northern
Time zone: Moscow, GMT +3, EST +8
Geography:The Arkhangelsk Region has 3000 km of coastline on 3 Arctic seas. It includes the Nenyets Autonomous Region and several island archipelagos. It sits on the White River delta and several large river basins.
Urban population: 75%, Rural population: 25%
Ethnic make-up:
Economy: Arkhangelsk is primarily involved in shipping, fishing and other sea-related industries. Because much of the territory is also covered in taiga forest, logging and paper-processing are also major industries. A programme of prospective forest management development has been drafted by the regional administration. It is expected to bring Rbs10.5-13 bln ($395.5-$490 mln) of investment into the industry, depending on the growth rate. The programme envisages improving forest felling, introducing flexible technological processes, increasing labour productivity, designing modern and competitive furniture collections, and developing facilities producing environmentally safe wood houses. The region will set up five new conservatory forest farms, lay 500-700 km of roads for timber transportation, complete the construction of the Belkomur railway, and build new plants.
In 2006, Severalmaz, a subsidiary of Alrosa, Russia’s leading rough diamond producer, increased its ore output at the Lomonosov diamond deposit in the Arkhangelsk Region more than 150% to 850,000 metric tons. In 2006 mining operations by the Lomonosovsky ore mining and processing plant amounted to 3.120 mln cu m against 2.867 mln cu m in 2005. Last year the plant started to work at full capacity of 1 mln metric tons of processed ore a year. According to expert estimates, the Lomonosov diamond deposit accounted for 20% of all Russian reserves. The deposit’s reserves are estimated at $12 bln.
Official website: http://www.arkhadm.gov.ru/
Contact information
Press Service of the Regional Administration
Tel.: +7 (8182) 64 08 35
Email: depinfo@dvinaland.ru
Chairman of the Regional Deputies Assembly
Vitaly Sergeevich Fortygin
1 Lenin Square
Arkhangelsk 163061
Tel: +7 (8182) 64 66 81
Email: ac@aosd.ru
Representative to the Government of the Russian Federation
Igor Tatarkanovich Zoloev
3/10 Malya Dmitrovka Ulitsa, office 222
Moscow 163000
Tel.: +7 (095) 299 74 86; 299 68 62
Fax: +7 (095) 209 45 94
Email: arxpred@rambler.ru
Related articles:
"Church vs. State in the Russian North" Russia Profile (August 20, 2004)
Paul Abelsky, Moving Up or Moving Out, Russia Profile (August-September 2005)
last updated Jan. 21, 2008
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