Boksitogorsk

Boxitogorsk is located on the slopes of the Tikhvin ridge, on the Pyardomlya River (sea basin), 20 km from the railway station Bolshoi Dvor (on the railway line St. Petersburg - Vologda), 245 km east of St. Petersburg. Since 1869, the first information about local bright red clays is found. In 1916, a resident of the city of Tikhvin engineer T.P. Timofeev brought to the Geological Committee of St. Petersburg samples of rocks that were identified as aluminum ore with a high content of silica (Tikhvin deposit). In 1929, the construction of bauxite mines began in the vicinity of Tikhvin, in connection with which a working settlement grew here. Since 1935 the village of Boxitogorsk, since 1950 the city. JSC "Boxitogorsk alumina", "Boxitogorsk polymer" (production of medical products, etc.). Plant of reinforced concrete products, bakery, dairy plant. In Boxitogorsk region grow potatoes, vegetables. Dairy cattle breeding, pig farming. Deposits of bauxite, peat, refractory clays, limestone, sand and gravel materials. 140 km from Boxitogorsk, the village of Listvenka is the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin (16th century). 30 km from Boksitogorsk, near the village of Ordnaya Gorka - a natural monument - Ragusha River: disappears 1.5 - 2 km through numerous craters in the limestone.