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Volkhov

Leningrad Oblast, Russia
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About Volkhov

Volkhov is a modern town and the managerial focal point of Volkhovsky District in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Volkhov River 122 kilometers east of St. Petersburg. The town created amid the industrialization in the primary portion of the 20th century. The settlement of Zvanka with a train warehouse was worked here while the railroad associating St. Petersburg with Vologda was being constructed. It was a piece of Novoladozhsky Uyezd of St. Petersburg Governorate.

A second rail line running north of the station towards Murmansk was built in 1916, making the station a critical railroad intersection. In 1918, development of the Volkhov Hydroelectric Station began on this spot. In 1926, the power plant wound up operational and in 1932, the main Soviet aluminum plant was propelled close-by. Inside the system of regulatory divisions, Volkhov fills in as the authoritative focus of Volkhovsky District. As a managerial division, it is joined inside Volkhovsky District as Volkhovskoye Settlement Municipal Formation.

As a city division, Volkhovskoye Settlement Municipal Formation is consolidated inside Volkhovsky Municipal District as Volkhovskoye Urban Settlement. The region contains five social legacy landmarks of government noteworthiness and moreover 17 articles delegated social and recorded legacy of neighborhood significance. The bureaucratic landmarks are the Volkhov Hydroelectric station, the landmark to Genrikh Graftio, the leader of the development of the power plant, the main working of the aluminum plant, and in addition the houses where Graftio and Boris Vedeneyev.

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