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estimated at more than 2.5 million leading universities are M. V. Lomonosov Northern
cubic meters. (Arctic) Federal University and the Northern State
In the local economic make-up, Medical University. There are two private higher edu-
timber industry is the most export- cation providers and seven campuses of state and pri-
oriented. The figures for 2021 show vate universities. The area’s current enrollment stands
that sawn timber was being shipped at 20,000. Every year, degrees are awarded to 5,000
mainly to the European Union, China students.
and Egypt, and pulp, paper and card- Research work is being pursued on a high level.
board mainly to Poland, Italy, Turkey, Here operate the Russian Academy of Sciences Fed-
Romania, Germany, Ecuador, Central eral Research Center for Integrated Arctic Research;
and Southeast Asia, and neighbor- Center for Shared Use of Research Equipment; Re-
ing countries. Today, Arkhangelsk’s search and Training Center “Russian Arctic: New
mills are looking for new customers materials, Technologies and Research Methods”. The
in Asia-Pacific Region. Northern State Medical University conducts a series
Timber industry is an employ- of studies in the field of Arctic medicine.
er to thousands of residents. Along Vocational training system is making steady prog-
with the giant mills, the area has ress. The area’s vocational schools have 27,000 stu-
approximately 560 small saw mills dents and offer 140 training programs, increasing
and 700 sole traders. Taken togeth- their cooperation with the industries and deliver-
er, they produce about a quarter of ing training in immediate vicinity of the production
the area’s total output of raw and premises. Arkhangelsk Oblast is currently updating
sawn wood. its personnel strategy to better meet the needs of labor
Wood is not the area’s only market. There may be changes in the regional order
wealth. Arkhangelsk Oblast is for skilled laborers, white-collar workers and special-
known to hold a variety of subsur- ists in middle and senior management.
face resources including diamonds, gold, silver and
zinc. Here lies the European Russia’s only diamond-
bearing province: M. V. Lomonosov diamond mine
and V.P. Grib diamond mine hold more than 200 mil-
lion carats, accounting for one fifth of the country’s
discovered diamond reserves. Estimates suggest that
undiscovered possible reserves may hold as many as
750 million carats.
The Novaya Zemlya archipelago will soon see the
start of the development of Pavlovsky lead and zinc
mine, which is estimated to contain 2.5 million tons
of zinc, 549,000 tons of lead and 1.200 tons of silver.
Other minerals discovered on the Novaya Zemlya
include copper, uranium, fluorite, manganese, phos-
phorites, among others.
Arkhangelsk Oblast is home to bauxite (251 mil-
lion tons), limestone, dolomite, clay, abrasive garnet
and other minerals.
Mind and hands

The biggest wealth of any region is its people, or
human capital. Education and research are provided
in Arkhangelsk Oblast through a well-developed sys-
tem that offers training in a wide range of majors. The