Cherepovets

Cherepovets is a city in Vologda Oblast, Russia, situated in the west of the oblast on the banks of the Sheksna River a tributary of the Volga River and on the shores of the Rybinsk Reservoir. As of the 2010 Census, its populace was 312,310, making it the most crowded city in the oblast. The source of "Cherepovets" is a subject of much discussion among the nearby students of history. As per one form, the city apparently gotten its name from "skull" cherep in Russian. In times long past, an agnostic asylum was there out of appreciation for the god Veles on the slope at the intersection of the Sheksna and Yagorba Rivers. The highest point of the slope was known as the "skull."

Another rendition proposes that "Cherepovets" starts from the name of the clan "Ves", who possessed the Sheksna's banks. As per a few legends, "Cherepovets," in the dialect of nearby indigenous Veps, signifies "Veps fish slope." The city is in the junction of the significant Volga-Baltic conduit, west-east railways, and gas pipelines, and between two Russian government urban communities, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Cherepovets is an imperative mechanical focus in northwestern Russia generally known for nation's biggest steel fabricating plant, with fares going to in excess of 50 nations around the globe.

Inside the structure of regulatory divisions, Cherepovets fills in as the managerial focus of Cherepovetsky District, however it's anything but a piece of it. As an authoritative division, it is consolidated independently as the "city of oblast hugeness of Cherepovets", a regulatory unit with the status equivalent to that of the districts. As a civil division, the city of oblast centrality of Cherepovets is joined as Cherepovets Urban Okrug.