Total area: 5.400 sq km
Total population: 18.600
District centre population: 8.239
Administrative centre: Kirillov
Administrative division: 15 administrative areas
Distance from Vologda: 127 km
Transportation routes: nearest railway station in Cherepovets (92 km off Kirillov), highway Vologda-Medvezh'yegorsk
Main branches of industry: timber, food, agriculture
Places of interest: the Kirillo-Belozersky monastery (15-18th centuries), Ferapont monastery (founded in 1398) and Goritsy nunnery (founded in 1544), national part "Russian North" (set up in 1992), Maura hill
Renowned residents: physicist D.Grave, historian I.Maisky, colonel-general E.Preobrazhensky, general Y.Baluevsky
City code: 81757 - for trunk, international calls and for calls within the oblast
Information service: 32222
Address of the district administration: ul. Preobrazhenskogo 4, 161100 Kirillov, Vologda Oblast, Russia
web: http://www.vologda.ru/~adm-kir
e-mail: adm-kir@vologda.ru
Head of the district administration: Sergey Usov, Tel.: 31503, Fax: 31383
