Webcam Cherepovets. Alexandrovskaya Embankment (Vologda region).
Cherepovets is the largest city of the Vologda region, a large industrial center, located on the Sheksna river (left tributary of the Volga), at the mouth of the Yagorba river. The city successfully operates huge enterprises - JSC "Severstal", JSC "Ammophos", JSC "Severstal-metiz", JSC "Cherepovets "Azot".
In addition, it is the only district center in Russia, which has its own university - Cherepovets State University. In Cherepovets there is the oldest museum in the region, a lot of cultural institutions, theaters, shopping centers.
The first mention of the city dates back to 1362. That is when the Resurrection Monastery was founded here. The documents say that the monks settled on the already inhabited area, which was called "Cherepovesti".
Over time around the monastery appeared many small villages, the largest among them was a merchant village Fedosevo, which later became the basis for the city, whose history begins November 4, 1777. It was then that Empress Catherine II signed a decree establishing a new city in Novgorod province "for the benefit of water communications".
