Voloshka (Konosha district)

The village is located on the Voloshka River (a tributary of Onega ), 9 km west of the Vandysh railway station (on the Konosha - Arkhangelsk line ). The starting point of the Dorsky narrow gauge railway ^[1] and the end point of the Vandysh-Voloshka broad gauge railway ^[2] .

By the decision of the Arkhangelsk regional executive committee of February 9, 1963, the working village of Voloshka of the abolished Konoshsky district became part of the Nyandomsky industrial region ^[3] . By the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of January 12, 1965 and the decision of the Arkhangelsk Oblast Executive Committee of January 18, 1965, the Nyandomsky Industrial District was abolished, the working village Voloshka became part of the newly formed Konoshsky District.

Until 2005, Voloshka was an urban-type settlement , and from January 1, 2005, the status of the settlement was changed to rural in order to obtain additional social benefits for residents ^[4] .

The population of the village, according to the 2010 All-Russian Population Census , is 902 people ^[5] .

In the village there was a forest station.

Pulp mill of OGUP Voloshsky pulp mill No. 5

The main enterprise of the village - Voloshsky pulp mill - was launched in 1939. ^[6] .

In 1938, the government of the RSFSR decided to build a "special plant No. 5 GULAG NKVD" for the production of special cellulose used in the defense industry. ^[7]

Plant products - CA pulp is used in the defense industry in the manufacture of gunpowder ). There are no treatment facilities at the plant, as a result of which it is a serious polluter of the Voloshki River. In this regard, Rosprirodnadzor in 2005 announced the requirement to close the plant ^[8] .

In 1988, the USSR Council of Ministers ordered the plant to be redesigned due to a decrease in demand for its products, as well as a large physical and moral depreciation of fixed assets. On the industrial site of the plant was to begin construction of a workshop for the production of chipboards with their processing into panel parts for the furniture industry. The equipment of the German company Bizon-Werke and the building structures of the main building were supplied, a zero cycle was completed for the building. Since 1992, funding from the federal budget has ceased, and construction has been mothballed. The equipment, which had been lying for 10 years in an open storage warehouse, was sold in 2002 to a profile plant in another region ^[9] .