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as suppliers of materials, equipment, oversized met-
al structures, engineering designs, construction and
modernization services in the remote northern areas.

Gifts of the land and the sea
In the land of Pomors, fishing and seal hunting have
been a traditional trade. With sixteen ocean fishing
companies, Arkhangelsk Oblast accounts for one fifth
of the total catch from the Northern Basin. Its crews
cross the polar seas in pursuit of cod, haddock, mack-
erel, halibut, flounder, perch, and whiting. The com-
mercial species being caught in the White Sea include
herring, smelt, navaga, flounder, salmon and humpback
salmon. Fish is processed onboard or by coastal facto-
ries to produce a wide range of fish products.
Fish is not the only marine bioresource available
here. Arkhangelsk Seaweed Factory, a unique enter-
prise established back in 1918, harvests the White Sea
algae to produce cosmetics, biologically active addi-
tives and ingredients for food industry.
Food is produced also on land. Arkhangelsk
Oblast has more than 40 agricultural organizations,
about 80 farms, and 130,000+ private subsidiary
plots. Cold climate makes the land of Pomors an area
of risky farming, for which reason it subsists main-
ly on dairy farming. The local dairy
farms produce more than 123,000 tons
of milk annually. The Kholmogorsky
breed of cattle, developed in the Dvina
District, is known since the 17th cen-
Arkhangelsk has twelve general-purpose port fa- tury and is bred across Russia.
cilities with specialized terminals, a number of ste-
vedores with marine cargo areas, more than a dozen Natural wealth
shipowners, and dozens of related service companies.
The Ekonomiya cargo handling area operates the Rus- Arkhangelsk Oblast has an ex-
sian Arctic’s only container terminal with storage and tensive forest cover and is one of the
transshipment capacity of up to 75,000 containers per country’s leading timber producers.
year. The local shipping companies are involved in The top-quality Pomor wood is used
Northern Supply Haul, delivering cargoes to the po- in construction industry and pro-
SOZVEZDYE #40 lar stations and serving the transport needs of the duction of plywood, fuel pellets and
Ministry of Defense. paper. The area produces a quarter
The local industries have a vast experience as con- of the nation’s total output of cellu-
наследие tractors and suppliers to the Arctic projects. About lose, a quarter of fuel pellets, and a
tenth of sawn timber. The local pulp
150 local companies were involved in the construc-
legacy tion of Yamal LNG. The current projects – Arctic LNG and paper mills have an output of 2.1
1, Arctic LNG 2; Vostok Oil; High-Tonnage Offshore million tons of pulp and 1.7 million
Engineering Center in Murmansk Oblast; Pavlovsky tons of paper and cardboard annual-
Lead Zinc Mine on Novaya Zemlya – involve them ly. The annual sawn timber output is

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