Total area: 4.100 sq km
Total population: 57.982
Administrative centre: city of Sokol
Administrative division: 12 administrative areas
District centre population: 43.038
Foundation: city status in 1932
Distance from Vologda: 35 km
Railway station: 2 km, Sukhona
Natural resources: sand, marl, peat, tufa and loam
Inland waters: the Sukhona River and its affluents
The district of Sokol is a vast wooded area with some 71% (295,000 has) of its total land covered with forests: mostly deciduous, but also coniferous (pine and spruce). Wood is the most precious treasure of the region.
Main branches of industry: wood processing, pulp and paper industry, agriculture
Places of interest: complex of Mikhail Archangel churches (1770), a mesolite site
Renowned residents: poets V.Krasov, A.Ganin, A.Romanov, composer Valery Gavrilin, academician I.Chernyaev
City code: 81733- for trunk, international calls and for calls within the oblast
Information service: 21963
Address of the district administration: 73, Sovetskaya Street, 162100 Sokol, Vologda Oblast, Russia
Head of the district administration: Alexander Ozhogin, Tel.: 21284, Fax: 21167
