 As a municipal division, the town of district significance of Gryazovets, together with the village of Pirogovo in Pertsevsky Selsoviet and the village of Svistunovo in Rostilovsky Selsoviet of Gryazovetsky District, is incorporated within Gryazovetsky Municipal District as Gryazovetskoye Urban Settlement.Gryazovets hosts timber industry and food industry enterprises.One of the principal highways in Russia, M8, which connects Moscow and Arkhangelsk, passes near Gryazovets.