Bereznik also known as Dvinskoy Bereznik is an urban type settlement and the administrative center of Vinogradovsky District

Vinogradovsky District

Vinogradovsky District is an administrative district , one of the twenty-one in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. Municipally, it is incorporated as Vinogradovsky Municipal District...

, Arkhangelsk Oblast

Arkhangelsk Oblast

Arkhangelsk Oblast is a federal subject of Russia . It includes the Arctic archipelagos of Franz Josef Land and Novaya Zemlya, as well as the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea....

, Russia

Russia

Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

, located on the left bank of the Northern Dvina River, 192 kilometres (119.3 mi) southeast of Kholmogorskaya railway station and 276 kilometres (171.5 mi) away from Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk

Arkhangelsk , formerly known as Archangel in English, is a city and the administrative center of Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia. It lies on both banks of the Northern Dvina River near its exit into the White Sea in the north of European Russia. The city spreads for over along the banks of the river...

. Municipally, it is the administrative center of Bereznikovskoye Urban Settlement, the only urban settlement in the district. Population: , around 4,000 (1968).

History

In the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...

, in the present area of the district there have been battles between British and American troops and the Bolshevik troops. The battles also involved the Northern Dvina Flotilla, which acted on the Northern Dvina.

July 15, 1929 the uyezds were abolished, and Bereznikovsky District was established. It became a part of the Nyandoma Okrug of the Northern Krai. In 1940, Bereznikovsky District was renamed into Vinogradovsky District after Pavlin Vinogradov, a bolshevik

Bolshevik

The Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists , derived from bol'shinstvo, "majority") were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903....

 and an active participant of the October Revolution

October Revolution

The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...

 and Russian Civil War. In 1918, Vinogradov was sent to Arkhangelsk and eventually charged with the organization of the Bolshevik resistance to British and American troops.

Industry

The industry of Oktyabrsky is mainly timber industry and food industry. Timber was rafted down the Northern Dvina till 1990s but then this practice has been abolished.

Transport

Northern Dvina is navigable in Bereznik.

Bereznik is located on one of the principal highways in Russia, M8

M8 highway (Russia)

The Russian route M8, also known as the Kholmogory Highway or Yaroslavl highway, is a major trunk road that links Moscow to the Russian North in general and the sea harbour of Arkhangelsk in particular...

connecting Moscow and Arkhangelsk. There are regular bus connections with Arkhangelsk, Velsk, Kotlas, and Kargopol.

Culture and recreation

Vinogradovsky District Museum in Bereznik, open in 1970, is in fact the only museum in the district.