Pikalevo is a small town in the Leningrad Oblast. The main of its population are plant workers. In 2008-2009, due to the economic crisis, several factories stoped production in Pikalevo. As a token of protest, the residents organized several demonstrations and blocked the federal highway. In 2009, thanks to the civil initiative, the residents achieved the restoration of the work of factories. However, a few years later (in 2015) Pikalevo again found itself on the verge of production cutbacks and reducing staff. Now the town is in the same distressed economic situation as it was seven years ago.