Information about the city of Yoshkar-Ola
Status: a city of federal subordination, the capital of the Mari El Republic.
The city is situated on the Mari lowlands, 50 km north of the Volga River, on its
left tributary - the Malaya Kokshaga River, 862 km east of Moscow.
Phone code: +7 (8362) ******
Economy.
Leading industries and enterprises:
- Electric power industry ("Marienergo" OJSC and municipal unitary enterprise
"Yoshkar Ola TPP-1")
- Machine-building and metalworking ("Ariada" CJSC, "Potential" OJSC,
"Mari Machine-building Plant" OJSC, "Gran" OJSC, "Contact" OJSC, "Kopir" OJSC,
PK "Sovitalprodmash" ltd., "Shipbuilding-Repairing Plant n.a. Butyakov" OJSC,
"Elektroavtomatika" ltd., Mari Plant of Refrigerating Equipment)
- Instrument making ("Biomashpribor" OJSC; "Plant of Semiconducting Devices" OJSC;
special design bureau "Khromatek" CJSC)
- Timber, woodworking and paper and pulp industry ("Mari Paper and Pulp
Integrated Works" OJSC, "Furniture Plant "Zarya" CJSC, "Zabers" OJSC)
- Food industry ("Yoshkar-Ola Meat Processing Plant" CJSC, branch of the
federal state unitary enterprise Rosspirtprom "Fokinsky Distillery", RGUP
"Mari Khleb", "Makhaon" ltd., "Yoshkar-Ola Confectionery" OJSC,
RGUP "Firm "Souvenir", "Our Beer" OJSC, "Marbiofarm" OJSC, "Republican Dairy
Plant" ltd.
There are 267 agricultural enterprises of different property forms, 35 enterprises
of food and processing industry, 2134 peasant farms on the territory of the republic.
Culture.
Theatres: Opera and Ballet Theatre n.a. E. Sapaev, Russian Legitimate Drama
Theatre n.a. G. Konstantinov, Puppet Theatre, National Legitimate Drama Theatre
n.a. M. Shketan, Young Spectator Theatre.
Planetarium.
Museums: National Museum of Mari El Republic n.a. T. Evseev, Museum
of Fine Art, Museum of Applied Folk Art, Museum of the History of Yoshkar-Ola city,
Museum-House of N.S. Mukhin, Memorial Museum of I.S. Kljuchnikov-Palantay, Museum
of the History of Mari El Republic State Security, Museum of Sports Glory.
Voskresenskaya Church (1756), stone and wooden houses of the 19th century with
carved platbands, porches and gates
