In the region there are 17 secondary schools, 5 basic schools, 1 primary school, 1 gymnasium, Kozlovschina State Vocational-Technical School No. 191, 19 preschool facilities, 28 community centres, 38 libraries, 3 hospitals, 28 paramedic-midwife stations, national tuberculosis hospital Novoyelnia, Radon Sanatorium branch of Belagrozdravnitsa enterprise, children’s recreational centre Borovichok and children’s sanatorium Lastochka.

A history and local lore museum has been working in the town of Diatlovo since 1966.

Specimen of architecture: Transfiguration Church in the town of Diatlovo (1839), Blessed Virgin Mary Assumption Cathedral in the town of Diatlovo (1648); St Peter and Paul’s Church in the village of Venzovets (1875), Holy Cross Exaltation Church in the village of Voinevichi (1897), Corpus Cristi Cathedral in the village of Dvorets (1904), Holy Protection Church in the village of Dvorets (the early 20th century), Sanctifier Nicholas the Thaumaturge’s Church in the village of Novgorodovichi (the second half of the 19th century), Church of Saint Martyrs, Blessed Princes Boris and Gleb in the village of Nakryshki (1836), St Guardian Angels Cathedral in the village of Rogotno (the 19th century), a mansion of Ignatiy Domeyka in the village of Zhiborty (1819)