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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.
Gas comes to Arkhangelsk Thermal Plant
Arkhangelsk Thermal Plant (photo: Wikipedia)
One of the biggest energy consuming units in Arkhangelsk Oblast, the Arkhangelsk Thermal Plant, will be connected to the Russian gas pipeline grid in late March and transformed from oil to gas use in the course of summer.
It is Gazprom-subsidiary Gazpromregiongaz, which now is in the final stage of connecting the thermal plant with the Russian gas pipeline grid, a press release from the Arkhangelsk regional administration reads. Together with plant owner TGK-2, the Gazprom unit will make the thermal plant operate on gas from summer this year.
The transformation will significantly help reduce emissions from the plant. Currently, the plant is running exclusively on mazut, the low quality fuel oil.
