Economy The basis of the district's economy is the forestry industry, timber processing and agriculture (crop production, meat and dairy farming, animal husbandry). Tourism activity is developing. Transport Automobile communication The federal highway «Kola» passes through the district. The district is connected by regular bus routes with Petrozavodsk, St. Petersburg, Sortavala. Commuter flights from Olonets to Verkhny Olonets, Vidlitsa, Ilyinsky, Tuksy, Kovera, Megrega, Rypushkalitsa and Verkhovye. Railway Railway line Yanisjarvi — Lodeynoye Pole. Attractions More than 130 monuments of historical and cultural heritage have been preserved on the territory of the district. Chapel of St. George the Victorious (wooden) of the XVIII century in the village of Pertiselga Cross of Worship in the village of Tatchelitsa (the first half of the XIX century) Vazheozersky Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery (built in 1520) Olonets National Museum of Karelians-Livviks named after N. G. Prilukin Flora and Lavra Church in the village of Megrega (founded in 1613) Chapel of Michael, Peter and Paul (XVIII century) in the village of Novinka Dubrovin's house in the village of Bolshaya Selga (the first half of the XIX century) The village of Bolshaya Selga (houses and buildings of the XIX century have been preserved here) Demographics Olonetsky District is the only district in the republic where Karelians form a majority of the population (63.4% in 1989). Natural population growth rate was -12.02 per 1,000 in 1994. Notable natives and residents Artamonov Ivan Ilyich (1914-1985) — Hero of the Soviet Union, a native of the village of Stepannavolok. Vladimir Egorovich Brandoev (1931-1990) was a Karelian poet and translator, a native of Berezhnaya village. Mikhail Konstantinovich Kononov (1923-2005) was an economic and party leader, a native of the city of Olonets. Ivan Petrovich Kuzmin (1928-2002) — Honored School teacher of the RSFSR, a native of the village of Matchezero. Heroes of Socialist Labor worked in the district — I. V. Chaikin, S. V. Sablin, F. F. Koshkin. See also Olonets Governorate of the Russian Empire and the early Russian SFSR References Notes Sources Districts of the Republic of Karelia