Currently, there are more than ten thousand enterprises of various patterns of ownership in Vologda. The most notable ones are:
* Closed joint-stock company "Vologda Bearing Factory" � produces bearings of various types
* Open joint stock company "Vagron" � alcohol production
* Open joint stock company "Vologda Machine-Building Plant" � produces various processing equipment for agriculture
* Open joint stock company "Vologda Optical and Mechanical Plant" � produces optical devices
* State-owned enterprise "Vologda Railway-Carriage Repair Works", branch of the Open Society of the Russian Railway � produces various trains, makes repair and reconstruction of old carriages
* Open joint stock company "Byvalovsky machinery plant" � the leading enterprise of the Northwest of Russia that produces cranes
* Open joint stock company "Electro Tech Mash" � produces electric household and technological products
* Limited liability company "Central operating company" � building, designing, management of dwellings, management of the commercial real estate
* Open joint stock company "Trans-alpha" (former "Vologda mechanical factory") � produces trolleybuses and buses
* Opened joint-stock company "Vologda building designs and road machines factory" � produces mobile buildings for household, public, and industrial use
* Closed joint-stock company "Soyuz Les Montazh" � produces a wide range of equipment for wood processing and equipment for the paper industry
Traditional national crafts are presented by the closed joint-stock company �Snowflake� (lace), limited liability company "Hope" and other enterprises
