Information about the city of Valdai
Status: administrative center of Valdai municipal district in Novgorod region.
It is situated on the highest part of Valdai upland, at the Valdai lake,
in 140 km. to the south-east from Veliky Novgorod, at the 374 kilometer of the federal
road Moscow - Saint-Petersburg.
Phone code: +7 81666 *****
Economy.
There are in the town: plants - "Jupiter", mechanical, metal products.
Enterprises of food industry.
Potatoes, grain crops are cultivated in Valdai district. Cattle, pig breeding,
poultry farming.
Deposits of clay, rock debris.
Culture.
Museums: Museum of Bells, Museum of Uezd (district) Town.
Catherine the Great Church (1793).
Valdai is a popular center of tourism and rest. There ia a Valdai National Park
in the town surroundings.
There is a Iversky monastery on the Ryabinovsky island of Valdai lake (founded
by the patriarch Nikon in 17th century.
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