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Cherepovets

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Cherepovets

City in the Vologda oblast (region) of the northwestern Russian Federation, 375 km/233 mi north of Moscow; population (1996 est) 321,000. The city is located near the northern shore of the Rybinsk Reservoir on the Volga, and stands at the southern end of the Volga–Baltic Waterway. Iron and steel foundries, chemical plants, and shipyards are the city's principal industries. Cherepovets was founded in 1777 on the site of a monastery.

Cherepovets was originally a tax-exempt settlement.



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In the industrial city of Cherepovets, for example, the authors found that the maternal and child health surveillance system is so highly organized that the resulting computerized database can be used for studying the effects of environmental factors during pregnancy.
In 35 games playing for Cherepovets in the Russian elite league, the 23-year-old Nikulin had 17 goals, 28 points and 18 penalty minutes.
The local-level observations were made in Cherepovets (population 320,000) in Vologda Oblast, and in Nizhni Tagil (population 450,000) and Yekaterinburg (population 1,400,000) in Sverdlovsk Oblast.
 
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