Mogilev Region

Mogilev Region

High industrial and agricultural potential, favorable geographic location, vast market – all this strongly supports the statement that Mogilev region has everything to succeed. Radical economic changes have laid the basis for dynamic growth of Mogilev region.

Mogilev land produces artificial fibers, automobile tires, hi-tech equipment, hoists and elevators, electric motors, centrifugal pumps, furniture, textile, silk cloths, outwear, children footwear – goods and products well known in Belarus and far beyond. Today local businesses are striving to raise the quality of their products so that it meets world standards. Evidence of achievements in this area is mutually beneficial cooperation of local producers with their partners across CIS and from over 80 countries worldwide. The region has created favorable business environment, large-scale privatization is underway, FEZ Mogilev has started to bear fruit – this all makes Mogilev attractive to both local and foreign business and promotes strengthening ties and widening cooperation with partners from FSU countries and elsewhere.

Mogilev is the eastern-most region of Belarus bordering with the Russian Federation, specifically, Smolensk and Bryansk regions. From the north it borders with Vitebsk, from the west – Minsk and from the south – Gomel regions of Belarus.

Spatially Mogilev region is an irregular triangle stretching from north to south by 150 km, and from west to east by more than 300 km. Mogilev with an area of 29.1 thousand sq.km is populated with 1,100,000 people of which 70% reside in cities and small towns; largest cities – Mogilev and Bobruisk – have a population of 360,000 and 220,000, respectively.

Geologically the whole region is located within confines of the ancient East-European Platform. Mogilev features over 1,800 deposits of mineral resources, including the sole phosphate rock deposit in Belarus. The region has the largest reserves of cement in the republic (chalk-stone, chalky clay, clays and cement loams), there are also large reserves of building-grade and silicate sands, sand-gravel aggregates, peat, sapropel, mineral waters. Oil is extracted in its south-westernmost part. In the eastern part of Mogilev region (in Khotimsk district) there located huge reserves of rottenstone – a mineral having impressive technological characteristics.

Mogilev endogenous flora has zone-type habitats and is represented by association of woods, meadows, bogs, streams and basins. The primary vegetation type, forests, occupies 37% of the territory. Forest plants include pine, fur tree, European birch, black alder, oak, asp.

The region has about 250 industrial enterprises, amalgamations, joint stock companies located mostly in the cities of Mogilev (accounts for 45% of the region's production output) and Bobruisk (about 26%). Also significant industrial centers are the towns of Osipovichi, Krichev, Klimovichi, Kostiukovichi, Gorki, Bykhov. Public sector enterprises account for one third of the industrial output, private sector, the share of which is constantly growing for over 60%.

Mogilev is a leader in the CIS in the production of self-propelled scrapers, underground hauler-trains, tractor trailers, fertilizer-dispensers, passenger elevators.

Mogilev is Belarus primary producer of tires, electric motors, centrifugal pumps, cement, silk cloths, lace curtains, soft roofing, rubber footwear, etc. Products of machine building, chemical and light industries are export-bound, other sectors target local markets.

Regional real sector shows a steady growth (claiming rates from 5% to 10% p.a.) in the production of nonfood products, with their share rising to almost 50%.

Chemical industry based mostly in the cities of Mogilev and Bobruisk occupies a leading position in the real sector, with the largest chemical producers in the region – OJSC Mogilevchimvolokno (artificial fibers) and OJSC Belshina (tires) being over 20% of the gross industrial output.

Farming in Mogilev has been developed with consideration to the region's soil and climatic conditions, established farming practices and population needs. To a large extent this process has been influenced by the fact that Mogilev land is home of the oldest educational and scientific center in the field of agriculture – the Belorussian Agricultural Academy.

In the crop growing Mogilev specializes in cultivating grain crops, potatoes and flax, in beef husbandry – in the production of dairy and meat. In recent years further impetus has been given to the production of vegetables, poultry industry, fur breeding and fishery.

The region is famous for its wide chain of educational institutions, comprising 10 universities and their affiliates (6 public and 4 private), 21 colleges, 35 professional schools, 502 secondary schools, 10 gymnasiums, 6 lyceums. In 2003 a lyceum of the Belorussian-Russian University, 2 colleges, 8 boarding schools and 13 special schools were opened. Two institutes of the Belorussian Academy of Science operate in the region.

Mogilev is one of the largest cultural centers in the republic. An integral part of its social life, Mogilev has become a venue of important international cultural events such as open-air sessions dedicated to the memory of famous artist-compatriots V.K. Byalinitski-Biruli, N.V. Nevrev, P.V. Maslennikov, international song and church music festivals "Zolotoi Schlyager" ("Golden Hit"), "Mogutna Bozha" ("Lord Almighty") and others.

Contact information:

Mogilev regional administration

Economic department

House of Soviets, Mogilev, 212006

Tel. (375 222) 326791

Fax: (375 222) 220511