The main city of the Sheksna district is settlement Sheksna. It is situated 83 kms away from Vologda. In the 1970 – 80s Sheksna turned into a big industrial centre and we may still call it so.

On June, 11, 1998 there was the Center of History and Culture opened in Sheksna. Here one can find the material on the history of the settlement and its people. There’re also displays of an applied art. Artist Ivan Aleksandrovich Menshikov presented his fellow countrymen with 50 paintings. And here you can see permanent exhibition works by a talented wood engraver, poet and philosopher Victor Sokolov. One can’t but admire tapestries by Evdokiya Vasilyevna Panova. When being 65 years old she started « as a hobby to weave pictures » with the help of an ancient weaving loom, and she couldn’t even imagine, that people would like her products so well, she’d have to exhibit in Paris, India, China. To commemorate the 55-anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War they opened the Hall of Combat Glory of the Sheksna residents. The next expositions acquaint visitors with the history of the Volga-Baltic waterway, Northern railway. One of the halls in the center is devoted to fire-fighting service. Russian peasant house, its red corner, its table, bench, cradle, samovars and its favourite – an authentic Russian stove, different utensils tell us about district rural life in the beginning of the previous century.

In the north - east of the Sheksna district there’s an ancient Russian village Sizma where traditions, ceremonies and customs are very carefully kept. One of the village sights is St. Nikolas the Wondermaker church constructed in 1867 - 73. Among the relics of the temple we should name the remains of the stone cross which has come by the river against the current, and also the Kazan image of the Holy Virgin which has wonderfully renewed during restoration of the temple. In Small Sizma in the village Solovarka in 1999 Xenia's the Blessed wooden chapel in the form of a fairy-tale terem was built. Near it there is a sacred well of St. George the Dragon Slayer, which was chronicled already in 1678. Near the village Pochinok there is a saint spring of St. Panteleimon the Healer the water of which contains elements of ferrum. In Sizma a unique museum of rural life’s been established where the process of linen production and weaving, and also old furniture, ceramics, cooperage and tanning crafts are widely represented. The collection of home woven clothes, towels and cloths is of special interest.