Social and Economic Situation in municipal formation

The Municipal Formation Armavir City is a city with diversified economy and a social sphere, one of the significant administrative and cultural centers in the Krasnodar Region.

The city area is 279.2 square kilometers; it is located in the south-eastern part of the Krasnodar Region on the both sides of the Kuban River. It shares borders with the Novokubansk and Uspenskoye Districts. It includes the city of Armavir and three rural districts (Zavetnyi, Prirechenskiy and Starostanichnyi), which unite 11 rural settlements.

Following the results of 2020, the permanent population of the Municipal Formation is 206.0 thousand people.

Armavir is the center and largest settlement of the Eastern Economic Zone of the Krasnodar Region, which includes neighboring districts, such as Novokubansk, Uspenskoye, Gulkevichi, Novopokrovsk, Belaya Glina, Tikhoretsk, Kavkazskiy, Kurganinsk, and Tbilisskaya Districts. There are close economic, social, and cultural relations between the Municipal Formations.

There are resort areas of Russia, such as health resorts of the Black Sea coast, mountain resorts Arkhyz and Dombay, as well as Caucasian Mineralnyye Vody, within a radius of 200 kilometers from Armavir.

Armavir is a major transport hub. The Caucasus Federal Highway passes through the city with daily transit traffic of 15 thousand cars, as well as railway lines that connect Central Russia with the North Caucasus and the Black Sea coast. There are two railway stations in Armavir: Armavir-Rostovskiy and Armavir-Tuapsinskiy.

All kinds of land transport work in the city: railway, bus and city electric (trolleybus) transport.

Modern Armavir is a city with high economic potential, developed modern infrastructure, favorable investment environment and favorable geopolitical status.

The industrial profile of the city is determined by large industrial enterprises of a historically established machine-building complex and metalworking and the food industry, mainly the production of vegetable oils, dairy products, and confectionery.

Armavir is one of the regional and Russian centers of railway engineering, manufacturing rubber products, paper, and paper products. It is a city with a high level of consumer market and construction work.

High economic potential and favorable investment environment allow Armavir’s enterprises manufacturing products enjoying strong demand that are recognized both in the Russian market and in the CIS countries as a whole. They are exported in such countries as Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

Export activity in the territory of the Municipal Formation Armavir City is carried out by 86 economic entities; the number of entities increased by almost 50% only in the last year.

The main goods supplied for export and produced in the territory of the Municipal Formation Armavir City are as follows: vegetable oils, confectionery, paper and paper products, products from aluminum and ferrous metals, tools for control, and testing, hydraulic pumps, water heaters, and electrical equipment.

Armavir is a large cultural territorial center. The Armavir Museum of Local Lore, the City Park for Recreation and Leisure, the Drama and Comedy Theater and the City Palace of Culture operate for citizens and guests of Armavir.

There are more than 40 kindergartens, nearly 24 secondary schools, 5 state and non-state higher educational institutions and 11 secondary technical schools in the city.