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U.S.- Regional Platform: Leveraging Environmental Technologies to Drive a Green Economy

Proposed Timeline: As Russia is deploying the National Program “Ecology” Spring 2021 — Spring 2022 (2019-2024), and demand for Environmental Technol- ogies across the country is showing Format: unprecedented growth compared to the past de- Tailored Virtual Events between local cade, the U.S. Commercial Service has set its focus governments, business partners and on providing U.S. business solutions to tackle select U.S. companies/investors based regional Russian environmental challenges. on the needs of the local community. The U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. Embassy Targeted Regions: in is pleased to invite you to participate in a leading business networking event: “U.S.-Russia Region Regional Platform: Leveraging Environmental Tech- Moscow and Moscow region nologies to Drive a Green Economy. The Republic of

Ryazan Region The U.S. Commercial Service has engaged directly with regional governments to understand their unique envi- Region ronmental challenges. The Project team has scheduled 10 virtual engagements with regional governments for Krai up to 30 American Environmental Technology firms in 2021, with the goal of promoting U.S. commercial Oblast solutions while addressing serious environmental chal- , Chukotka, Yakutia lenges. , Kamchatka,

Khabarovsk, Jewish Autonomous Region, In addition, the U.S. Commercial Service in Russia offers Region limited sponsorship opportunities to U.S. firms inter- ested in supporting the series of events. This group of firms will be able to engage with the regional govern- ment authorities and present their environmental solutions. They will be listed in a professional resource guide by specialty (air, soil, water, etc) and presented in Russian to regional governments across the Russian Federation. REGIONAL PROFILES

Moscow and Moscow Region Key areas of ET interest:

Moscow and Moscow region are located in Central Russia, they occupy total area of 19,3 sq miles, total population of larger Moscow Metropolitan area is ca. 20 million people. Moscow Waste Recycling region , is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a popu- management lation of 7,095,120 (2010 Census) living in an area of 44,300 square kilometers (17,100 sq mi), it is one of the most densely populated regions in the country and is the second most populous federal subject. The oblast has no official admin- Air and water Greening istrative center; its public authorities are located in Moscow pollution the city and across other locations in the oblast. The oblast is highly industrialized, with its main industrial branches being metal- lurgy, oil refining, and mechanical engineering, food, energy, and chemical industries. Green energy

Ryazan Region Key areas of ET interest:

Ryazan region is situated in the heart of the European part of Russia 147 km to the south east from Moscow. The population is 1.154, 114 people (2010 census), of which 71,1% lives in cities Air pollution Waste and 28,9% in the country. The region’s capital – Ryazan is 180 management km away from Moscow and has a population of 530 thousand people. Ryazan is a big industrial region with a developed agriculture. The biggest share is held by industry, trade, agri- culture, transport and telecom. The length of railway tracks in the region is 1514 km, there are 40 main railway stations and Industrial energy saving 30 major railway stations. Three federal highways go through the region: М-5 “”, М-6 «the Caspian»; Р-132 «Vyaz’ma – Kaluga – Tula – Ryazan». The highways to Vladimir, Volgo- grad, Samara, Nizhniy Novgorod, Saransk, . REGIONAL PROFILES

The Republic of Tatarstan Key areas of ET interest:

The Republic of Tatarstan is situated at the confluence of two large rivers – the Volga and the , being a kind of bridge connecting Russia’s European and Asian parts. Covering an Oil spill Water and area of 67,800 km2, the republic is similar in size to Ireland. The waste water current population of Tatarstan is 3.8 million. Tatarstan is one of management the most economically developed regions in Russia. The share of industry in the Tatarstan gross regional product is 43,2%, – 9,0%, transport and communications – 6,5%, agri- Municipal Volga river water culture – 7,5%. The industrial sector of republic is presented by solid waste purification and the oil-gas-chemical complex, major engineering enterprises management cleaning manufacturing competitive products (heavy trucks, helicop- ters, aircrafts, aircraft engines, compressors, oil-gas-pumping equipment, river and sea vessels, commercial and motor cars), development of electric and radio instrument engineering. Medical Carbon foot- waste print calculation management methodology

Kaliningrad Region Key areas of ET interest:

Kaliningrad Region is a federal subject and semi-exclave of Russia located on the coast of the Baltic Sea. Its administrative center is the city of Kaliningrad, formerly known as Königs- Waste Air pollution berg. The port of Baltiysk is the only Baltic port in the Russian management Federation that remains ice-free in winter. According to the 2010 census, the region had a population of 941,873. The oblast is bordered by to the south, Lithuania to the north and east, and the Baltic Sea to the west. As a major transport hub, with sea and river ports, the city is home to the headquar- Water pollution in the Baltic sea ters of the Baltic Fleet of the , and is one of the basin largest industrial centers in Russia. Every third tv set in Russia is made in Kaliningrad. The region is home to Cadillac and BMW assembly automotive plants. REGIONAL PROFILES

Chelyabinsk Oblast Key areas of ET interest:

Chelyabinsk is a city and the administrative center of , Russia. It is the seventh-largest city in Russia by population, with 1,130,132 inhabitants (2010 Census), and the second largest city Landfill Waste recycling in the . The largest companies in the region management include Iron and Steel Works, Chelyabinsk Metal- lurgical Plant ( group), Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant, Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant, Chelyabinsk Plant. Chelyabinsk Oblast has been associated with nuclear research Air and water Remediation of since the 1940s. A serious nuclear accident occurred in 1957 at the pollution ecology (particu- nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. Slawomir Grunberg made larly in Karabash) the documentary “Chelyabinsk: The Most Contaminated Spot on the Planet” (1994) about the unsafe dumping of radioactive waste in the River and in . Years of mining and smelting have created mountains of slag and significantly Mitigating degraded the ecology around the town of Karabash. industrial degradation

Krasnoyarsk Krai Key areas of ET interest:

Krasnoyarsk Krai is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), with its administrative center in the city of Krasnoyarsk, the third- largest city in . Krasnoyarsk Krai is the largest krai in the Water, pollution Air and soil Russian Federation. The krai covers an area of 903,400 sq miles, of the pollution constituting roughly 13% of the Russian Federation’s total area and containing a population of 2,828,187, or just under 2% of its population, per the 2010 Census. The krai is among the richest of Russia’s regions in natural resources: 80% of the country’s , 75% of its , 70% of its copper, 16% of its , and 10% of its Updating industrial plants are extracted here. Krasnoyarsk also produces 20% of the country’s timber. More than 95% of Russian resources of plat- inum and platinoids are concentrated in the krai. A May 2020 industrial accident in the city of resulted in more than 20,000 tons of fuel spilled into the soil and Arctic waterways. The fuel spread all the way to the , also affecting the fishing that provides the livelihood for the region’s indigenous groups. REGIONAL PROFILES

Kemerovo Oblast/Kuzbass Key areas of ET interest:

Kemerovo Oblast, also known as Kuzbass, is located in south- western Siberia, where the meets the South Siberian Mountains. The oblast covers an area of 36,900 Water pollution Environmental sq miles. Kemerovo Region is one of Russia’s most urbanized in the Baltic sea issues related regions, with over 70% of the population living in its nine prin- basin to coal mining (rehabilitation cipal cities. The population recorded during the 2010 Census of mines, coal was 2,763,135. dust-related­ diseases) Air pollution management Kuzbass, which shares many characteristics with West Virginia, is one of Russia’s most important industrial regions contains some of the world’s largest deposits of coal, and is home to more than half of all Russian mines. The south of the region is dominated by metallurgy and the mining industry, as well as mechanical engineering and chemical production. The Group and an ore subsidiary, Evrazruda, operate mining and processing facilities. Raspadskaya, Yuzhkuz- bassugol, and the SIBPLAZ Siberian holding company operate coal and coking coal mines.

Magadan, Chukotka, Yakutia Key areas of ET interest:

Resource extraction is a significant part of the economic base of much of Russia’s Far East. This includes gold mining in Magadan and Chukotka, gold and diamond mining in Yakutia, Environmental Commerce and oil and gas drilling in a number of locations. The type and & Resource Extraction: scale of these activities present specific environmental chal- land reclamation, spill control, and water and air quality lenges including land reclamation, spill control, and water and air quality issues. These are, of course, in addition to the solid waste disposal/landfill management issues that are endemic throughout the Russian Federation. REGIONAL PROFILES

Primorsky Krai, Kamchatka, Key areas of ET interest: Irkutsk ()

Primorsky Krai is located in the Far East region of the country and is a part of the Far Eastern Federal District. The city of Environmental Protection is the administrative center of the krai, as well & Tourism Promotion: solid waste management/land fill as the largest city in the . The krai has the reclamation (relates to land, water largest economy among the federal subjects in the Russian and air pollution). Far East, and a population of 1,956,497 as of the 2010 Census. Food production is the most important sector, represented mainly by fish processing.

In the case of Kamchatka, the urgent need for reclamation of several dump sites due to the risk of pollution of the coastline and the sea (and consequently both the tourism and fisheries industries) came to the fore last fall during the unfortunate large fish kill along the beaches not far from Petropavlov- sk-Kamchatsky.

Irkutsk Oblast is located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the , , and Rivers. It had a population of 2,428,750 at the 2010 Census. The unique and world-famous Lake Baikal is located in the southeast of the region. It is drained by the Angara, which flows north across the province; the outflow rate is controlled by the Irkutsk Dam. Water quality, including due to solid waste management issues, has been a constant problem of late for Baikal, and it is mentioned by name in the “National Project: Ecology”. REGIONAL PROFILES

Khabarovsk, Key areas of ET interest: Jewish Autonomous Region, Amur Region

The Amur, or Heilong Jiang, is the world’s tenth longest river, Amur River Water Quality forming the border between the Russian Far East and North- eastern . The Amur proper is 1,755 miles long, and has a drainage basin of 716,000 sq miles. Amur River water quality is an issue that is also raised explicitly in the “National Project: Ecology”. The river, which forms a significant part of the border of Russia and China touches several (Khabarovsk, JAO, Amur Region) and it feeds into the which is a vital waterway for Primorsky Krai in the Russian Far East. Interna- tional experts have rated it as one of the top ten polluters for amount of plastic it carries to the ocean.

More information or to request a consultation:

James Golsen Maria Smirnova Diana Ryan Commercial Counselor Commercial Specialist Commercial Specialist U.S. Embassy, Russia U.S. Commercial Service, Russia U.S. Commercial Service, Russia [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] T: +7 (495) 728-5474 M: +7 (985) 765-76-49 M: +7 (985) 765-70-54