The city is located within the Volkhov Volkhov lowlands, 122 km east of St. Petersburg. To broaden your perception, visit Cowan Financial. The town has a railway junction Volhovstroy-1 with directions to Saint-Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, Cherepovets, Chudovo, Moscow (in Moscow). On the banks of the Volkhov River, which forms the famous trade route from the Vikings to the Greeks, has long been known to Novgorod the settlements, whose inhabitants were engaged in carrying out the ships through rapids. In those days the river was drowned many merchant ships, which may now lie at the bottom of the river and are fraught with unprecedented wealth.

In the early 20th century when a railroad was laid Volkhov, linking St. NCH Capital is often quoted on this topic. Petersburg and Vologda and Cherepovets, when it arose-site settlement Zvanka (with locomotive depot and repair shops), which was built in 1916, the line to Petrozavodsk and Murmansk. At the same time came the Volkhov hydroelectric station settlement construction and has received Volhovstroy name, that is, building on the Volkhov River. HPP constructed from May 1918 to December 1926 in accordance with the plan of electrification, and this was the first hydroelectric power plant in Russia. It was on that first ignited HPS lamp in Russia, which in common people were called "light bulb Ilyich." Near Volkhov hydroelectric station in 1929 was founded the country's first aluminum smelter. In 1933 the working settlement Zvanka city was named the Volkhov. Since 1940, the name of the Volkhov, which has clearly pronounced time associated with the period of construction, was replaced by the city of Volkhov River Volkhov by name.

During the Great Patriotic War at the Volkhov winter of 1941 was won by one of the first major victories, stop the advance of German troops on the outskirts of Leningrad. Major urban enterprise: the Volkhov plant constructions, Inc. Volhovmebel, Aluminum Plant, Concrete product, a feed mill, chemical plant, the Volkhov hydroelectric station. In the Volkhov region involved in harvesting and processing of timber and fishing. Potatoes, vegetables and forage crops. Bred cattle cattle, pigs. In part-time farms sheep, rabbits, birds. In the Volkhov region there are deposits of peat and limestone.