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Arkhangelsk Oblast is one of 11 northwest Russian federal districts. It is located along the White Sea and borders the Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Komi Republic in the east, Vologda Oblast in the south and the Republic of Karelia in the west.
Arkhangelsk Oblast includes Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya. Also Nenets Autonomous Okrug is formally a part of Arkhangelsk, although it at the same time has status as federal subject.
The region covers a territory of more than 589,000 square kilometers, which makes up 35 percent of Northwest Russia and 3,5 percent of all of the Russian Federation.
Population in the region is 1,27 million (2007). About 94 percent of the population is ethnically Russian.
The administrative centre of Arkhangelsk has a population of 348,000 (2007), is the administrative center of the oblast. The second-biggest city, Severodvinsk, has a population of about 200,000.
Arkhangelsk Oblast has a powerful timber and forestry processing industry. It also has several major shipyards, first of all the Sevmash and Zvezdochka yards in Severodvinsk. The food processing industry also plays a key role for the regional economy.
Crushing victory in court over Arkhangelsk administration
Ilya Mikhachuk (Dvinaland.ru)
The Arkhangelsk Oblast administration will have to pay regional energy company TGK-2 a total of 300 million RUB of compensation following Governor Ilya Mikhalchuk's decision to freeze tariffs on heating last year.
In his speech to the regional parliament in December 2008, Mikhalchuk announced that tariffs on heating will be held unchanged for six months. That angered regional power supplier TGK-2, which subsequently sued the governor and his administration.
TGK-2 won the court case, and Arkhangelsk will now have to pay 300 million RUB of compensation, Bclass.ru reports.
That will not come easy for the regional administration, which already has had to make several serious cuts in its budget. As reported by BarentsObserver, the regional budget in 2009 got its revenues reduced by almost 30 percent.
TGK-2 is a leading heat and power company in Northwest Russia with generating capacities in six regions - Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kostroma, Novgorod, Tver and Yaroslavl.
TGK-2 won the court case, and Arkhangelsk will now have to pay 300 million RUB of compensation, Bclass.ru reports.
That will not come easy for the regional administration, which already has had to make several serious cuts in its budget. As reported by BarentsObserver, the regional budget in 2009 got its revenues reduced by almost 30 percent.
TGK-2 is a leading heat and power company in Northwest Russia with generating capacities in six regions - Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Kostroma, Novgorod, Tver and Yaroslavl.
