Vyborgsky District is located in the northwest of Leningrad Oblast. To the north, the district borders the Republic of Karelia, to the northeast – Priozersky Municipal District of Leningrad Oblast, to the east – Saint Petersburg, and to the west – the state border with Finland (120 km long).
Distance to Saint Petersburg: 138 km
Administrative centre: Vyborg
Area: 7,431.2 km2
Population: 198,226 people (urban population – 64.7%, rural population – 35.3%)
Infrastructure: The district's transport complex includes rail, road, sea and pipeline transport. The transport network is based on:
- mainline railways: Saint Petersburg – Helsinki (a component of the 9th intermodal transport corridor), Vyborg – Hiitola, Saint Petersburg – Zelenogorsk – Primorsk – Vyborg;
- the international federal highway «Scandinavia», supplemented by the main regional roads running in the same direction – Zelenogorsk – Primorsk – Vyborg and Molodyozhnoye – Verkhne-Cherkasovo;
- seaports and terminals (Vyborg, Vysotsk, Primorsk).
Mainline pipeline transport is represented by two strings of the Saint Petersburg – Vyborg – state border gas pipeline (820 mm and 1,020 mm in diameter) and the route of the Baltic Pipeline System Kirishi – Primorsk.
Economy: The economic potential of Vyborgsky Municipal District is ensured by a multi‑sectoral economic structure and highly competitive enterprises in industries such as shipbuilding, pulp and paper, and cargo handling in port complexes.
The district is home to 5,085 legal entities (of which 47% are small and micro‑enterprises) and 5,139 individual entrepreneurs without legal entity status.
The turnover of organisations of all types of activity has increased 1.5‑fold over the past four years and in nominal terms has approached 150 billion rubles. Vyborgsky District consistently accounts for 7% of the regional turnover.
In the district's sectoral structure, according to estimates for 2019, the leading economic activities providing the main share of turnover are: industry (50%), transportation and storage (23%), wholesale and retail trade (14%), agriculture and forestry (6%).
Major enterprises:
- CJSC «International Paper» – pulp and paper production (paper, cardboard, chemi‑thermomechanical pulps, paper and stationery products)
- LLC «SCA Hygiene Products Russia» – pulp and paper production (sanitary and hygiene products)
- PJSC «Vyborg Shipyard» – shipbuilding (tankers, ship hulls, platforms, tugboats)
- LLC «Rockwool – Sever» – production of other non‑metallic mineral products (non‑combustible heat and sound insulation materials)
- LLC «TechnoNICOL – Vyborg» – production of other non‑metallic mineral products (bitumen‑polymer torched materials)
- CJSC «Priborostroitel» – production of machinery and equipment (precision engineering parts and assemblies, information security devices, fire‑fighting equipment)
- OJSC «Piers Plant» – production of machinery and equipment (conveyor rollers, roller supports)
- LLC «NTL Packaging» – production of packaging
- LLC «Veresk» – food production (confectionery)
- CJSC «Vyborg Quarry Management» – mining of other minerals (crushed stone, sand, building stone)
- CJSC «Kamennogorsk Quarry Management» – mining of other minerals (granite crushed stone, granite chips)
- CJSC «Kamennogorsk Non‑Ore Materials Plant» – mining of other minerals (crushed stone, sand)
- CJSC «Gavrilovo Quarry Management» – mining of other minerals (crushed stone, sand, building stone)
- LLC «Dorpromgranit» – mining of other minerals (crushed stone, screenings, building stone)
- State Unitary Enterprise of Leningrad Oblast «Vyborg Vodokanal» – production and distribution of electricity, gas and water (water supply, sanitation)
- OJSC «Vyborgteploenergo» – production and distribution of electricity, gas and water (production and transmission of thermal energy)
- LLC «Trafo» – production of electrical equipment (transformers, electric motor stators, inductors, chokes, printed circuits, mains filters)
