Cherepovets, Vologda
region
History
Cherepovets was founded in November 1777 on the Sheksna River.
During the Second World War, hospitals and evacuation points were opened in the city, in which there were front-line soldiers and people evacuated from Leningrad
Great people
Vereshchagin Vasily Vasilyevich was born on October 26, 1842. He was a painter, traveled around the country and the world. Some of his paintings hang in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg.
His paintings: The Apotheosis of War, The Mortally Wounded, Japanese and Turkestan Series
City now
Now the population of the city. Many enterprises are located here: Severstal, Severstal-metiz, Apatit, which employ 40% of the townspeople. The city has enterprises for wood and metal processing, food and light industry, and a construction complex.
