The region's main resource is wood

For the construction industry:

glass sands
sandy gravels
clays

Prospects for the use of glass sands:
Organizing the manufacture of building and finishing materials:

• glass mosaic tiles
• glass marble
• decorative glass grit
• foam glass, foam decor
• decorative macadam

Basic raw materials

Europe's largest field of nodular phosphorites - 48% of the total Russian resurces.

Useful resources: over 2 billion metric tons.

The field contains:

• clays for making clayite
• glauconite sands containing potassium
• shale oil

Major reserves of fuel peat: 1734 fields, 1100.4 million metric tons

Prospects of peat use:

• environment safety - production of peat sorbents for neutralization and collection of oil discharges
• increase of soil fertility and harvest - production of fertilizers
• developmen of low-duty power stations - production of peat briquettes
• utilization of oil-products sludge