Total area: 5.000 sq km
Total population: 41.645
Administrative centre: Gryazovets
Administrative division: 17 administrative areas
District centre population: 16.182
Foundation: 1780
Distance from Vologda: 44 km
Transportation routes: Moscow-Arkhangelsk highway, railway stations in Gryazovets, Baklanka and Nefyodovo (railway connecting Moscow and Arkhangelsk), Vokhtoga and Lezha (railway St.Petersburg-Vologda-Bui-Kirov)
Natural resources: abundant supplies of wood (standing crop - 82,4 mln cu m, wood-cutting area - 1,3 mln cu m per year), 9 deposits of peat with the total reserves equalling 32,4 mln tons, 4 deposits of brick earth (6,4 mln cu m), silica sand (11,8 mln tons), 7 deposits of gravel-sand (6,6 mln cu m), sapropel deposits (172 ths tons), oil fields
Main branches of industry: timber, machine-building, light, food and agriculture
Social infrastructure: 32 secondary schools, 29 day-care centres and nursery schools, a boarding school, a vocational school, 2 schools for handicapped children; 31 libraries, 39 clubs, 2 art schools; 3 hospitals; a stadium, an ice hockey ground
Renowned residents: actors L.Sukharevskaya and N.Levitsky, professors V.Obraztsov and N.Baskakov, poet V.Sirotin, writes A.Subbotin and P.Kurakin
Places of interest: the Paul - Obnorsky monastery, Kornilyevo - Komelsky monastery, Bryanchaninovs' country estate
City code: 81755 - for trunk, international calls and for calls within the oblast
Information service: 22222
Address of the district administration: ul. K.Marksa 58, 162010 Gryazovets, Vologda Oblast, Russia
