2. Kirov region: summary
Kirov region (Russ.: Kirovskaya oblast), located in the northeast of European
Russia, is among the largest ones in the area.
Total area: 120 400 sq.m.
Population: 1,338,700 people (as of 01/01/2011).
Administrative
centre: Kirov (population:
498,700), 900 km to the
Northeast of Moscow.
The region is part of the
Volga federal district. It
borders on 9 other regions
of the Russian Federation.
3. Kirov region: summary
Transport infrastructure:
railways - 2 200 km.
highways - 24 100 km.
waterways - 1 800 km.
Time zone: UTC + 3 h (same as Moscow)
Climate: continental, with long and snowy winters and
moderately warm summers. The average temperatures
range from – -12…-15° С in January to +17…+19° С in
July. The average annual rainfall is from 505 mm in the
southeast to 665 mm in the northwest.
Natural resources available:
1. Wood – 1.2 billion cu.m. (19th in Russia in reserves).
2. Phosphorites – 2 billion tonnes (45% of Russia’s total reserves).
3. Peat – 378,800,000 tonnes (484 felds bigger than 10 ha).
4. Raw materials for the building industry – glass sands, sand-gravel, clays,
building stones, materials for cement production.
4. Kirov region: summary
Natural: the state nature reserve Nurgush, 3 state wildlife preserves,
9 game preserves, 39 hydrological sites of interest, 4 500 lakes, over
19 700 rivers, coniferous and mixed forests that cover more than half
of the region, deposits of 18 mineral water types and of medicinal
muds.
Historical: 12 old towns and communities have the status of historical
ones, 862 cultural heritage sites are protected by the government, 248
of them being of the national signifcance.
Travel agencies: over 140, including 11 tour operators.
Hotels: over 60.
Spa and health resorts: 17, specializing in the treatment of diseases
of the digestive system, respiratory organs, the locomotor apparatus,
the cardiovascular, nervous, endocrine and genitourinary systems.
Recreation facilities: about 30, including sports and tourist centres
(among them those for downhill skiing), a holiday centre, a family
health-improving centre, country recreation centres.
Museums: 40, the unique ones being the Alexander Grin Museum in
Kirov (the only museum dedicated to the great writer in Russia), the
memorial house of Victor and Apollinary Vasnetsov in Ryabovo,
Zuyevka district, the house-museum of Ivan Konev in the
Podosinovets district, the Vyatka Regional Paleontological Museum
and the Peasantry History Museum in the Kotelnich district.
Folk arts and crafts: over 10, the indigenous ones being the
Dymkovo clay toys and burl handicrafts.
5. Kirov region: scientific and cultural resourses
Scientifc Institution
The major research-and-development institutions include:
• Federal State Institution Kirov Research Institute of
Haematology and Blood Transfusion;
• Federal State Institution Research Institute of
Microbiology of the Defence Ministry of the Russian Federation;
• State Scientifc Institution B.M. Zhitkov All-Russian
Research Institute of Gamekeeping and Fur Farming;
• State Institution N.V. Rudnitsky Zonal Research Institute of
Agriculture in the Northeast;
• Research and Design Institute of the Biotechnology
Industry ;
• Kirov Institute for Planning the Hydroeconomic Construction;
• State Research Institution Volgo-Vyatskyi Centre of Applied
Biotechnology;
• Laboratory of Biotechnology Monitoring, Komi Scientifc
Centre, the Urals Regional branch of the Russian Academy of
Sciences.
• Kirov Science and Research Project Institute of Timber
Industry.
6. Kirov region: scientific and cultural resourses
Universities and other educational institutions
The educational system of the Kirov region consists of:
• 24 higher educational institutions, among them Vyatka State
University, Vyatka State University of Humanities, Vyatka State
Agricultural Academy and Kirov State Medical Academy;
• 61 institutions of the secondary vocational training; 22
institutions of the primary vocational training; 615 secondary
schools with 45 branches, including 11 gymnasia, 10 lyceums,
57 general education schools with an advanced course of some
subjects;
• 132 institutions of additional education;
• 47 innovative and testing grounds of federal, regional and
municipal level.
In recent years the results of the unifed state exam in the Kirov
region have been above the average national level. The region is
included in the “golden dozen” of the Russian regions with the
highest number of winners in the all-Russian ‘Olympic’
knowledge contest among schoolchildren.
7. Kirov region: scientific and cultural resourses
Culture
The region’s cultural and historical heritage includes:
• 3500 historical sites and cultural monuments, 883 of
them being protected by the state;
• 5 centres of ethnic culture;
• 40 regional and municipal museums with their
branches;
• 3 theatres, a regional philharmonic society, municipal
philharmonic society for children, a concert hall of the
organ and chamber music, and a circus;
• a variety of folk arts and crafts: the Dymkovo clay toy, the Vyatka bobbin laces, handicraft of
root burls and the birch bark, the Vyatka matryoshka, wood carving, inlay and painting, plaiting of
wicker, birch bark, pine roots, straw, bast, reed mace and other plant materials; pottery, weaving,
garments of linen cloth with embroidery, of leather and fur, artistic smithery and casting;
• deposits of fossil remains of prehistoric animals belonging to the Permian, Triassic and Jurassic
periods, the world’s largest location of pareiasaurs;
The history of the Vyatka land is inseparable from the life and work of the famous art masters and
devotees of culture, such as the writers Alexander Hertzen, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedring, Vladimir
Korolenko, Alexander Grin, the architect Alexander Vitberg, the classics of the Russian painting Ivan
Shishkin, Victor and Appolinary Vasnetsov, the composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, and the great opera
singer Fyodor Shalyapin.
8. Vyatka State University: general information
Federal Government-financed Educational
Institution of Higher Professional Education
«Vyatka State University» (FGEI HPE “VyatSU”)
VyatSU is a modern university that prepares professionals
for the real economy of the Kirov region and other regions.
The main directions of the University are the biotechnology
and chemical technology, energy efficiency and
conservation, information technology, nanotechnology and
nanomaterials.
There are 12 departments at the University:
· The Department of Automation and Computing Machines;
· The Department of Applied Mathematics and Telecommunications;
· The Department of Machine Building Automation;
· The Electrical Engineering Department;
· The Department of Building and Architecture;
· The Department of Chemistry;
· The Department of Biology;
· The Social Economic Department;
· The Department of Humanities;
· The Evening and Correspondence Department;
· The Department of Retraining Specialists;
· The Department of Innovative Education.
9. Vyatka State University: general information
Personnel Information
Number of VSU employees - 1414
Faculty – 661
Doctors of Science and Professors - 73
Candidates of Science and Associate Professors – 311
259 employees have been awarded State and special
Awards
Educational Activity
The University is licensed for:
75 specialities and areas of Higher Professional
Education,
8 specialities of Secondary Professional
Education
The University’s students and members of the
faculty; managers and specialists of Kirov and
Kirov region companies can enjoy any of the 31
programs of additional vocational training.
10. Vyatka State University: University in numbers
The university trains 12,849 students of
whom:
4967 full-time students
355 evening courses students
7527 correspondence students
The scientific-and-educational activity is carried out at 9
R&D centers and 13 R&D and scientific-and-production
laboratories
11. Scientific research
areas
Energetics New Materials
Biotechnology and Computing systems
Chemical Engineering
Modeling of processes and
materials
Industrial and
Civil Construction
History and
Ecology Ethnography
Economics and
Telecommunications Systems Analysis
