VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
ARCHIVE OF THE OFFICIAL SITE
OF THE 2008-2012 PRIME MINISTER
OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
VLADIMIR PUTIN
The city of Vyksa is the administrative centre of the Vyksa Municipal District, Nizhny Novgorod Region. It is located in the south-western part of the Nizhny Novgorod Region 180 km from Nizhny Novgorod, 350 km from Moscow and 12 km from the right bank of the Oka River. Its population as of 2007 was about 58,300 people, accounting for about 67% of the total population in the district.
The city lies on a flat plain along a string of artificial Vyksa ponds created in the 18th century.
The history of Vyksa is inseparable from the development of steelmaking. Back in the 16th century it had some cottage industries producing pig iron from locally found iron ores. In the 1760s the brothers Ivan and Andrei Batashev founded the first iron producing plants. The Vyksa settlement, like the building of the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant, is dated back to 1757. Vyksa was given city status in 1934. Massive housing construction began, including blocks of flats, social infrastructure and municipal water supply.
At present Vyksa is a major industrial centre in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. It still specialises in metallurgy due to its long history of metallurgy and metal-working, the availability of local skills, natural resources and the favourable geographical position.
Industry in the Vyksa District produces more than 140 types of products. The main sectors are metallurgy, machine-building, timber processing and construction.
The city of Vyksa is built around the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant, which accounts for more than 90% of the industrial output of the Vyksa District. Other major industries in the city are: Drobmash, Body Works (machine-building), VMZ-Universal (metal-working), Vyksunsky Khleb, Standart, Moloko (food), and VMZ-Service (equipment repair).
