Information about the city of Kemerovo
Status: a city of regional subordination, the administrative center of the Kemerovo
Region.
It is situated at the foothills of the Kuznetsk Ala Tau, on the Tom River,
at the confluence of the Iskitim and Tom Rivers, 3482 km of Moscow.
Phone code: +7 (3842) ******
Economy.
Kemerovo is the capital of the coal Kuzbass, a large industrial center
of the West-Siberian region.
Headquarters of the large Russian companies are located here: "Kuzbassrazrezugol",
"Siberian Cement", "Sibirsky Delovoy Soyuz (Siberian Business Union)".
The leading role in the city economy plays chemical industry ("Azot" OJSC,
Industrial Association "Tokem" JSC, "Khimvolokno (chemical fibre)-AMTEL-Kuzbass" JSC,
"Polimer" OJSC; enterprises of "small chemistry" - "Household Chemical Goods
Plant" OJSC, "Contact-1" OJSC, "Agrochemical Plant "Vika" CJSC).
Main industries and enterprises:
- Ferrous metallurgy ("Koks" OJSC)
- Machinebuilding ("Kemerovokhimmash" JSC, Kemerovo branch of "Altay Vagon (Car)" OJSC,
"KORMZ" OJSC, "KARZ-1" OJSC, "KEMZ" OJSC, machinebuilding plant "Bask" JSC)
- Fuel complex - branch of "Kedrovsky Ugolny Razrez (coal strip mine)" OJSC
- Energy (Kemerovskaya Hydroelectric Power Station, Kemerovskaya TPP, Novo-Kemerovskaya TPP and numerous boiler rooms)
- Light industry ("Orton" OJSC, "Tom" OJSC, "Kuzbasslegprom (light industry)" JSC,
the firm "Temp" CJSC etc.)
Food and processing industry enterprises are developing in high gear.
Agriculture: animal breeding for meat and dairy production, poultry farming, bee keeping.
Culture.
Coal Institute within the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Science.
Theatres: legitimate drama, musical, puppet, theatre for children and youth.
Philarmonic. Circus.
Museums: Local Lore Museum, Fine Art Museum, Historical and Architectural
Museum-Resort "Krasnaya Gorka", museum "Archeology, Ethnography and Ecology of
Siberia" of the Kemerovo University.
Not far from Kemerovo the most famous sight of the regional center is
located - a unique museum-resort of the primitive cave painting "Tomskaya Pisanitsa".
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