My favorite city is Cherepovets презентация

Cherepovets is the largest city in the Vologda region.
It is rare when a city that is not the capital of a region is bigger than it.
Cherepovets is considered to be the industrial center of Russia.
Favorable geographical position made it an important port for the five seas due to the Volga-Baltic channel.

In the vicinity of Cherepovets, dozens of archaeological sites, mostly Stone Age sites, were discovered.
The first mention of the city dates back to 1362.
It was then that the Resurrection Monastery was founded here.

Located on a large river, Cherepovets, became famous for the only in Russia those years of fishing.
For a long time the city in Sheksna remained an ordinary county town.
Only with the beginning of the construction of the Mariinsky water system does its rapid development begin.

Interesting attractions
— The Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ. The ancient structure, impregnated with prayers, silence, peace and tranquility is the center of the Orthodox life of the city.

— Chapel of the icon of the Mother of God «Life-giving source». The name of the chapel was due to the healing spring, which is nearby.

— The embankment. Among the beautiful green hill you can see cozy benches, stairs, paths leading to the embankment. Walking along it, you can see the sights of the city associated with its history. It is an old passenger station, ferries with cargo, a shipyard, Russia’s first cable-stayed bridge, Cherepovets pleasure ships, as a port of five seas.

— Museum of Nature. Local forests, rivers, countless lakes have always been famous for the abundance of different animals. Even the huge mammoths, whose remains can be seen in the museum, roamed the reserved places of the Vologda region.

As for nature, Cherepovets is a habitat for rare species of birds, listed in the Red Book protected by the state.

On the territory of the region grows 35 species of plants listed in the red book.