2018 CONTENTS HERALD RESULTS-2017. FORECASTS-2018. RATINGS 32. MONOTOWNS KONDROVO AND SOSENSKIY: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR 6. KALUGA REGION – A TERRITORY WITH DEVELOPMENT MAXIMUM SOCIO-POLITICAL STABILITY KALUGA PHARMACEUTICAL CLUSTER – THE FIRST RECIPIENT OF THE SILVER INFRASTRUCTURE CLUSTER EXCELLENCE CERTIFICATE 34. LOGISTICS (ESCA) IN RUSSIA 36. ROAD ENGINEERING 7. KALUGA REGION AMONG THE MOST INNOVATIVE REGIONS OF RUSSIA 38. CONSTRUCTION SECTOR INTERVIEW TOP EVENTS 8. DMITRY RAZUMOVSKY, MINISTER OF 42. COMPETITION POLICY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF KALUGA 44. AGROINDUSTRIAL SECTOR REGION: The region’s economy. Results of 2017. 48. LABOR MARKET AND SOCIAL POLICY Forecasts for 2018. 52. HEALTHCARE 54. HUMAN RESOURCES AND EDUCATION FACTS AND FIGURES 56. ACHIEVEMENTS IN SPORTS 10. INDUSTRY 2017 58. 2017 – YEAR OF THE ECOLOGY AND 11. TOP-20 COMPANIES NATURE CONSERVATION TERRITORIES 64. TOURISM INDUSTRY INDUSTRY 68. ARTS AND CULTURE 12. KZTA. TIME FOR MAJOR CHANGES INVESTMENTS 16. LAUNCHED IN 2017 20. AGREEMENTS SIGNED IN 2017 28. AGREEMENTS FOR 2018 30. NEW RESIDENTS OF KALUGA SEZ PROJECTS PUBLISHED BY KALUGA NEWS AGENCY SINCE 2010 Director – Larisa CHUVIKOVA +7 (910) 860-35-43, [email protected] Editor – Tatiana ANTIPOVA +7 (910) 609-74-21, [email protected] Advertising – Elena BOCHENKOVA +7 (910) 915-00-58, [email protected] PUBLICATION OF THE MINISTRY All rights to information and photo materials and the logo of Kaluga Region FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT belong to the Agency for Regional Development of Kaluga Region: 41 bldg.2 Dzerzhinskogo St., Kaluga, 248001 Russia OF KALUGA REGION Tel.: +7 (4842) 27-99-90, 27-99-91, arrko.ru 3 RATINGS KALUGA REGION – A TERRITORY WITH MAXIMUM SOCIO-POLITICAL STABILITY EXPORTER OF THE YEAR Kaluga Region has maintained its leadership status in the Kaluga Region came in third among with Russian Export Center JSC. monthly rating of socio-political stability in Russian regions Russian constituent subjects as Participation was open for exporting compiled by the St. Petersburg Policy Foundation throughout “Leader in Exports” – the most companies and constituent subjects 2017. The region’s average annual grade of 8.5 secures its important of the six categories of the of the Russian Federation focused place in the group of regions with “maximum socio-political nationwide competition “Exporter of on development of non-commodity stability”. the Year” organized by the Ministry of exports. Industry and Trade of Russia together KALUGA REGION RECEIVES THE BIGGEST COMPENSATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF VORSINO AND ROSVA INDUSTRIAL PARKS ВIn 2017, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry rubles, and in 2019 – five subjects will KALUGA PHARMACEUTICAL Medvedev signed a directive on allocation receive 1.1 billion rubles. According to the CLUSTER – THE FIRST of 6.8 billion rubles of federal budget funds document, the biggest compensations will for compensation of costs associated with be paid to Kaluga Region for creation and RECIPIENT OF THE SILVER the creation of industrial and techno parks development of industrial parks Vorsino in 2017-2019. Funding is to be granted over (1.4 billion rubles in 2017) and Rosva (636 CLUSTER EXCELLENCE three years: in 2017, nine RF constituent million rubles in 2018). subjects received 3.1 billion rubles, in 2018 CERTIFICATE (ESCA) IN – seven subjects will receive 2.6 billion RUSSIA In October 2017, experts from the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis (ESCA) performed a field audit of the Kaluga Pharmaceutical Cluster association. Key operations of Kaluga’s pharmaceutical association were evaluated on the basis of 30 parameters. The audit revealed that required results were considerably exceeded for more than 70% of these parameters thus confirming the high level of the cluster management system and its compliance with the best global practices. Kaluga’s pharmaceutical cluster (the ninth in Europe among pharmaceutical/medical clusters) became the first Russian holder of a silver Cluster Excellent Certificate of the European Secretariat for Cluster Analysis. 4 RATINGS KALUGA REGION IS AMONG THE MOST KALUGA REGION’S ACHIEVEMENTS INNOVATIVE REGIONS OF RUSSIA IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT COMMENDED BY RF GOVERNMENT At the end of 2017, the analytical center of the Russian Government announced the winners of its fourth annual “Project Olympus” competition in the field of public sector project management. Kaluga Region reached the finals in the category “Project offices for investment climate improvement”, while its “MMC Development” project received a finalist diploma in the category “Project of the year”. Project Olympus competition Kaluga Region is in the group of “strong socio-economic conditions for innovations, innovators”, holding the sixth place in regional innovation activity. The leaders the rating of innovative regions for 2017 are St. Petersburg and Moscow, with Professional prepared by the Association of Innovative Tatarstan Republic securely holding the Regions of Russia (AIRR). The rating third place. They are followed by Tomsk, project management evaluates regions by 29 parameters Novosibirsk, Kaluga, Moscow, Ulyanovsk, divided into four categories: research Samara and Tula Regions. in the public sector and development, innovation efforts, UNIVERSAL BLOOD TECHUP NATIONAL SUBSTITUTE RATING OF RUSSIAN FAST GROWING HIGH-TECH PAM-3 NAMED COMPANIES THE BEST INNOVATION OF MERCATOR KALUGA AND THE ARMY-2017 OBNINSK CHEMICAL AND FORUM PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY – LEADERS OF THE TECHUP 2017 RATING Mercator Kaluga LLC, manufacturer of road maintenance PAM-3 was named the best Innovation (freeze-dehydrated powder packaged in and utility equipment, won the first place in the sixth Club invention at the awards ceremony of compact flasks) is suitable for long-term annual TechUp-2017 national rating of Russian fast-growing the International Military-Technical Forum storage under normal conditions and is high-tech companies organized by the Russian Venture Army-2017 held in August 2017. Activities compatible with a variety of solvents. Company (RVC). The winners were announced in December of the Innovation Club are supervised The blood substitute for use in extreme 2017. Obninsk Chemical and Pharmaceutical Company JSC, a by the Main Directorate of Scientific and emergency situations received high participant of the Kaluga pharmaceutical cluster, became a Research and Engineering Support of appraisals from the Russian Minister of laureate of the TechUp-2017 rating as a TOP-10 innovative Advanced Technologies of the Russian Defense Army general Sergey Shoygu and company in the Medium Business category. The company Ministry of Defense. “PAM-3 – universal military experts of the Russian Ministry manufactures advanced pharmaceutical substances and blood substitute with oxygen transfer of Defense. finished medical products, continuously develops and capacity” is a project developed by a group introduces new high-efficiency drugs to the Russian market. of Obninsk-based scientists. “Dry blood” 5 INTERVIEW THE REGION’S ECONOMY RESULTS OF 2017. FORECASTS FOR 2018. Dmitry RAZUMOVSKY, Minister of Economic Development of Kaluga Region ? manufacturing for the year was over 110% KALUGA REGION HAS BEEN Dmitry Olegovich, what were Kaluga against 2016, which is significantly above DEMONSTRATING CONFIDENT Region’s macroeconomic results for average results for Russia. The value of GROWTH FOR TWO YEARS IN 2017? shipped industrial products was about 600 A ROW. billion rubles. We are still holding the third position in the Central Federal District by IN THIS INTERVIEW WITH Quite positive. Most of Kaluga level of salaries: in 2017, the average salary THE MINISTER OF ECONOMIC Region’s economic sectors have been was 33,000 rubles – almost 5% higher than DEVELOPMENT, WE DISCUSS demonstrating confident growth for the in 2016. Gross regional product for 2017 is estimated at 380 billion rubles, which is GROWTH DRIVERS, THE EVENTS second year in a row. Among the drivers for positive also 5% higher than in 2016. THAT MADE THE BIGGEST economic dynamics, I’d note the 6.5% It is very important that in 2017 there IMPACT ON THE REGION’S increase in agricultural output and the was considerable growth in the export SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC LIFE 20% increase of construction volumes, component of the region’s international AND PRIORITIES OF REGIONAL with 800,000 m2 of residential space trade. Growth of exports to non- DEVELOPMENT FOR 2018. built in the region in 2017. There was an neighboring countries was three times almost 80% increase in manufacturing of higher than in 2016. medical products. There were also positive trends in automotive manufacturing, manufacturing of electronic equipment, What would be your TOP-5 events a considerable revival of investment in the economy of Kaluga Region in activity. 2017? The overall index of industrial 6 INTERVIEW Actually, there were a lot more of such activity complementing each other. events. They include commissioning One of the most promising directions of new investment and infrastructural is creation of territories of specialized facilities, launches of major logistics development to gradually level out 112.3% projects, signing of milestone investment geographic disbalances that still exist agreements, revival of small and medium within the region. Certain steps have — growth of industrial business activity, expansion of our already been taken in this direction. Thus, manufacturing partner base, growth of competitiveness we established Kaluga SEZ, which is now in 2017 of our traditional manufacturers… actively