Nyandomsky District

The Njandomski rayon (Russian Няндомский муниципальный район / Njandomski munizipalny rayon ) is an administrative unit within the Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It is located south of the Oblasthauptstadt Arkhangelsk. The administrative center is the city Nyandoma.

Geography

The Njandomski rayon is located in the southwestern part of the Arkhangelsk Oblast. To the west of the Kargopolski Rajon rajon borders, north of Plessezki rayon, east of Schenkurski rayon, southeast of Welski rayon and south of Konoschski rayon. The area of ​​8050 km ² is Rajon.

History

The Njandomski rajon was on 15 July 1929 as part of the newly created Njandomski krai ( Няндомский округ ), the Northern Krai ( Северный край ) was founded. Center was Nyandoma, which at that time had the status of a working class neighborhood. From the year 1936 was the Rajon part of the Severnaya Oblast ( Северная область ). On September 23, 1937 Rajon went to in the territory of the newly founded Arkhangelsk Oblast.

Demographics

The following overview shows the evolution of populations of Njandomski rayon.

Note: Census data

Administrative divisions

The Rajon is divided into three municipalities ( муниципальное образование ), of which a municipality ( городское поселение ) and two rural communities ( сельское поселение ). Within the Rajon located with Nyandoma than an administrative center just a place with city status. In Njandomski rajon live 30 244 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ), which corresponds to 2.6% of the population of the Arkhangelsk Oblast. [NB 1]

Economy and Transport

The unemployment rate corresponds to 1.5 % of the average rate of Arkhangelsk Oblast (2012 ). The average monthly salary in 2011 was in large and medium-sized organizations 24128 rubles, an increase of 2.8% lower than the Oblastdurchschnitt of 24819 rubles. [NB 1] The main economic activities of Rajon are the forestry, agriculture and railway traffic. Especially in the rural community Schalakuschskoje take the forest industry and wood processing companies a substantial role in the economy. Rail transport is the most important traffic and transport in the region. The most important rail link is the distance Konosha - Nyandoma -Archangel of the Northern Railway. There were the times of the Soviet Union numerous smaller narrow gauge railway lines, which were mainly used in the field of forest industry. Today consist of these lines only the Lepschaer narrow gauge railway ( Лéпшинская узкоколейная железная дорога ) and the Iwakschaer narrow gauge railway ( Ивакшáнская узкоколейная железная дорога ) .. The road network is not very significantly expanded in the region. About the regional road R2 is connected by road from Nyandoma after Kargopol and highway M8.