KIROV REGION - one of the largest regions of Russia’s non-Black Earth belt, located in the North East of the European part of the country.

AREA - 120,4 thousand sq.m.

POPULATION - 1413,3 thousand.

REGION CENTER - the city of Kirov (466,3 thousand), located 900 km to the east from Moscow. Part of the Volga Federal District, borders on nine regions of the Russian Federation.

TOTAL RAILROAD LENGTH - 2,2 thousand kms

TOTAL ROAD LENGTH - 22,1 thousand kms

TOTAL WATERWAY LENGTH - 1,8 thousand kms

TIME BELT
+03:00 GMT (Moscow time).

CLIMATIC CONDITIONS
Moderately continental climate with long cold winters and short but relatively warm summer. Average January temperature - -14...- 16 С0, average July temperature - + 17...- 19 С0. Amount of rain - approximately 500 mm/m2 per year.

ATTAINABLE NATURAL RESOURCES
1. Wood - 8th largest Russian logger.
2. Phosphate rock - total volume 2 billion metric tons (48% of all reserves of Russia).
3. Peat - total volume 1100,4 million metric tons (1734 fields).
4. Construction industry resources - glass sand, sand-gravel aggregates, clay.

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