Investment Passport of the City of Izhevsk
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Investment passport of the city of Izhevsk Investment passport of the city of Izhevsk Table of contents 1. Historical information 2. Location and administrative-territorial division of the city 3. Competitive position 4. Nature resources potential 5. Economic potential 6. Labor and demographic potential 7. Infrastructure potential 8. Institutional potential 9. Tourism potential 10. Core indicators of economic and social development of the city 11. Support measures of investing activities provided for small and medium-sized businesses 12. Procedure for issuance of authorization for construction 13. Procedure for issuance authorization for clearing the objects of major construction work for operation 14. Contact information 2 Investment passport of the city of Izhevsk 1. Historical information The city of Izhevsk is a capital of Udmurt Republic. The history of Izhevsk is closely tied to industry. The history of Izhevsk is closely tied to the industrial production. The city was founded on 10th April 1760, when workers began construction of count Shuvalov ironworks and the dam on the Izh river. First ball iron was produced in 1763. Tula arms plant, Petersburg, Briansk and Warsaw arsenals and Black Sea Admiralty became its monopolistic consumers. On 10th June 1807 Izhevsk experienced the “New birth”, when exceptional mountain engineer and talented organizer A.F. Deryabin founded a new arms plant, only third in whole Russia after the Tula and Sestoretsk plants. By 1863 more than 22 thousand people inhabited Izhevsk. With the development of the industry between XIX and XX centuries Izhevsk became one of the centers of the industry of Ural region. The city’s population was two times bigger than the main city of province – Vyatka and ten times bigger than Glazov. In the beginning of 1914 the government of the Izhevsko-Nagornaya volost and the workers of Izhevsk plant approached to the province government asking to officially state Izhevsk as a city, but the attempt wasn’t successful. On 21st February 1918 Soviet of Workers’, Soldiers’ and Peasants’ Deputies decreed that Izhevsk’s plant habitation to be reformed as the city of Izhevsk without prior arrangement. The official status of the city was bestowed upon Izhevsk only on 6th July 1925 by the decree of All-Russian Central Executive Committee. Izhevsk became the center of Votskaya Avtonomnaya oblast, later renamed as Udmurtskaya avtonomnaya oblast, Udmurt SSR, Udmurt Republic on 25th June 1921. During Soviet times the number of plants in the city increased. Izhevsk plant was divided into Izhevsk Mechanical Plant and Izhevsk Steel Plant in 1939, Moto Plant was founded in 1933, mechanical plant in 1942, Electromechanical plant in 1957, Reductor Plant in 1946, Oil machine building plant in 1956, Ball bearing plant in 1957, Radio plant in 1958, Paper making machinery plant in 1960 Automobile plant in 1966 and Plastics plant in 1972. The plants became a backbone of Izhevsk industry. Despite their peaceful names most of the plants produced military grade goods. For example, Machine building and Mechanical plants produced projectile weapons, Electromechanical plant produced surface-to-air systems, Moto plant produced military great instruments and systems and so on. Large amount of industry in the city stimulated rapid growth and developed infrastructure because the plants’ responsibilities except for production also included social sphere of the city’s life such as housing, medicine, culture and sport. During Great Patriotic Was Izhevsk was among the few cities producing projectile weapons. Izhevsk Machine building plant worked tirelessly to arm rifles and aviation divisions. From the first 3 Investment passport of the city of Izhevsk day of war every ounce of high grade steel from Izhevsk mettalurgic plant were used for the production of tanks, planes, cannons, rifles and other weapons. The name of the city is rightly associated with the name of Mikhail Kalashnikov. “Ak-47” mass production started in 1948 and since that time its modifications became the most widespread projectile weapon in the world. First Izhevsk automobile was made on 12th December 1966. It started the development of automobile building and four years later it grew into the conveyor-type. In 1978 Izhevsk was awarded with the October Revolution medal. Today Izhevsk is a modern city with developed engineering infrastructure, public transport system, developed communal and housing services, socially important objects contributing to the city’s well being. 2. Location and administrative-territorial division of the city Izhevsk is located in the south-east of Udmurt Republic, Eastern part of the East European Plain, in-between rivers Kama and Vyatka. Geographic coordinates of the center of the city at 56 degrees northern latitude and 53 eastern longitude. Economically and geographically Izhevsk is a part of the Volga federal district. The city’s land within the city border is 31515 hectares. The city is divided into 5 administrative districts: Industrialniy (East), Leninskiy (South-West), Oktyabrskiy (North), Pervomaiskiy (East and South-East), Ustinovskiy (North-East). The distance between Izhevsk and Moscow is 1129 kilometers. Other closest cities of the Volga federal district are Kazan (386 km), Kirov (405 km), Perm (282 km), Ulianovsk (616 km), Ekaterinburg (634 km), Ufa (342 km), Nizhniy Novgorod (789 km). The closest seas are the Caspian sea (North shore, 1080 km), the White sea (south shore, 1120 km), the Gulf of Finland (Eastern shore, 1400 km). The territorial distribution of the population centers in Udmurt Republic creates a complex planning system that can be called “Izhevsk agglomeration” with the city of Izhevsk as the key location of growth. The agglomeration consists of 10 municipal bodies, including secondary growth locations – cities of Votkinsk and Sarapul and some municipal districts. The joint population of Izhevsk agglomeration exceeds 1 million people. 3. Competitive position Izhevsk is an economic and trade center of the Udmurt Republic with a range of competitive advantages, which create a foundation for social and economic growth. 4 Investment passport of the city of Izhevsk Economics: Social sphere: . Relatively small distances to russian . Natural population growth since 2009; economic centers ; . Developed infrastructure; . Migrational population growth since 2011; . Diversified economical structure; . Developed system of professional education; . Uniqueness of some technologies and plants; . Low level of officialy registered unemployment rate . High percentage of manufacturing industry . Guaranteed places in the kindergartens for children from 3 to 7 years. High percentage of workers in the industrial . Izhevsk is a sport center of Urals and complex; Volga regions; . High amount of small and medium scale . Izhevsk is placed fifth in the ecological entrepreniurs; rating of Russian cities. Increasing investment of the businesess into development of effective practices; . Wide range of supporting measures for entreprineurship; . Local government’s focus towards the development of municipal-private partnership. 4. Nature resources potential The city is located in the favorable nature and climate zone. Local topography is created by the flood plains and hilly steppe plains. The ground is almost non-subsiding, there are no ever-frozen, rocky or forest-like features leading to the forming of carse and landslides. All of these create favorable conditions for building of industrial and construction objects and lying of transport roads, including railroads. Largest rivers going through the city are Izh, Karlutka and Podborenka. The city’s main water reservoir is artificially created in the second part of the XVIII century Izhevsk pond. It is the largest artificial water body not created for the electric energy generation. Area of the surface of the pond is 2,640 hectares. 5 Investment passport of the city of Izhevsk Izhevsk underground water deposits consist of fresh and mineral water. Mineral waters are used for the health resort treatment and sold in retail stores. The water comes from water wells of “Metallurg” health resort, “Stroitel” health resort and mineral-fruit water plant. Because of the ideal combination of components, varied mineralization and pleasant taste mineral water from “Novoizhevskiy” water well is distributed throughout Udmurt Republic and other regions. Soft wood (pine, spruce, silver fir) take up about 40 % of urban and peri-urban forest zone. Hard wood include birch, asp, and alder. Less common are oak, maple, elm, hazel. Urban forests take up more than a quarter of the “Izhevsk” municipal body. Woodiness of the territory is 28.3 %. Soft wood (pine, spruce, silver fir, lariks) takes up 39 % of the total and hard (birch, asp, alder, oak, maple, elm, hazel, linden) wood 61 %. Overall timber resource is 1179.4 thousand cubic meters. According to the regulation of Izhevsk Forestry the permitted type of uses of urban forests include: - Stock-piling of timber. It is planned according to the current regulations during cutting of dead and flawed trees, caring for the forest and cutting of the trees situated on a land chosen for the reconstruction and use of objects both connected and not connected to the creation of the forest infrastructure; - Stock-piling and collecting of the non-timber forest resources (stock-piling of forest greenery, stock piling of soft-wood branches, only from cut or fallen trees) is permitted for personal use only. - Stock-piling of edible forest resources