Vokhtoga (russian: Вохтога) is an
urban locality (an
urban-type settlement
Urban-type settlementrussian: посёлок городско́го ти́па, translit=posyolok gorodskogo tipa, abbreviated: russian: п.г.т., translit=p.g.t.; ua, селище міського типу, translit=selyshche mis'koho typu, ab ...
) in
Gryazovetsky District
Gryazovetsky District (russian: Гря́зовецкий райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #371-OZ and municipal districtLaw #1114-OZ (raion), one of the twenty-six in Vologda Oblast, Russia. It is located in the south of the oblast and borde ...
of
Vologda Oblast
Vologda Oblast ( rus, Вологодская область, p=vəlɐˈɡotskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ, r=Vologodskaya oblast, ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is Vologda. The Oblast has a population of 1,202,44 ...
,
Russia
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.
Municipally, it is incorporated as Vokhtogskoye Urban Settlement, one of the two urban settlements in the district. Vokhtoga is located on the right bank of the
Lezha River, a right tributary of the
Sukhona. Population:
History
Vokhtoga was founded in 1938
to serve timber production and timber industry and obtained the status of the urban-type settlement in 1960.
Economy
Industry
Vokhtoga has a number of timber industry enterprises.
Transportation
Vokhtoga has a railway station on the railroad connecting
Vologda
Vologda ( rus, Вологда, p=ˈvoləɡdə) is a city and the administrative center of Vologda Oblast, Russia, located on the river Vologda within the watershed of the Northern Dvina. Population:
The city serves as a major transport hu ...
in the north and
Buy in the south. At Vokhtoga, another railroad branches off east, the
Monza Railroad, built for timber transport and operated by the timber production authorities, which runs along the border of Vologda and Kostroma Oblasts. The Monza railroad crosses the district and enters Mezhdurechensky District, eventually continuing to the southeastern districts of Vologda Oblast. The plans to extend it further east to Nikolsk were never realized.
The Monza Railroad has a separate station in Vokhoga, Vokhtoga-2 railway station. The headquarters of the
Monzales company which owns the railroad are located in Vokhtoga.
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Urban-type settlements in Vologda Oblast