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Kaluga Region — Best Offer for Business KALUGA REGION — BEST OFFER FOR BUSINESS REGION IN THE CENTER OF EUROPEAN PART OF RUSSIA / 2018 Moscow Total area 29,800 km2 Obninsk Smolensk Region Moscow Region Kaluga Lyudinovo 20 million Tula Region people live within a 180-km radius Bryansk Region 68 km Kaluga Region population: distance from Kaluga Region 1.01 million border to Moscow (Moscow 2 ring road) KALUGA REGION HAS MODERN LOGISTICS INFRASTRUCTURE / 2018 MULTIMODAL TRANSPORT AND LOGISTICS CENTERS: 2 Vorsino and Rosva 0 km – on the border with New Moscow (Central Ring Road) Federal M3 Ukraine federal highway 20 km to Kaluga > 600 ha– total area FREIGHT VILLAGE > 500,000 TEUs per annum – Container terminal capacity 3 KALUGA REGION EXPORT CAPABILITIES / 2018 Saint Petersburg 8,7 times Ust-Luga Russia export growth Bronka Moscow to foreign countries Riga FV RU outside the CIS Chita over the last 5 years Brest Kaluga Irkutsk KazakhstanNovosibirsk Mongolia Zabaikalsk Naushki Inkou Vostochny Dostyk Urumchi VLADIVOSTOK Baku CHINA Tianjin DALIAN Iran Suzhou 1. KALUGA REGION — Chengdu Bender Abbas A MEMBER OF NEW SILK Shilong ROAD PROJECT INDIA Guangzhou Kaluga-Dalyan logistics corridor established in 2016 MUMBAI 2. NEW EXPORT ROUTE VORSINO-SHILONG Marine transportation Transportation via Far East New Silk Road Delivery time: 50 days Delivery time: 35 days Delivery time: 14 days Distance: 22 000 km Distance: 11 000 km Distance: 7 750 km 4 days days days KALUGA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT / 2018 BY THE END OF 2018 PASSENGER FLOW FORECAST 5 times 71 700 – growth of passenger traffic passengers 500,000 in the first half of 2018 in passengers comparison with 2017 4 200 flights by 2030 Kaluga International Airport: member of ACI Europe Best Regional Airport with Passenger Flow (International Airport Council European division, below 0.5 million (Air Gates of Russia 2016) 5 Commercial Aviation Airports Association KALUGA REGION: HIGH EFFICIENCY OF PROJECTS / 2018 SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE 12 INDUSTRIAL PARKS 2 SITES Greenfields customs duties land tax Brownfields > 100 0% income tax 16 Build-to-Suit residents property tax residents VAT 7,500 ha total area 1,024 ha total area 6 WE DEVELOP AND MANUFACTURE / 2018 Cars and trucks Steam and gas Railway construction Diesel turbines and maintenance locomotives Cast iron and steel Construction Radio electronics Pharmaceuticals products materials products Paper and wood Furniture and other Logistics IT 7 products products INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS / 2018 AUTOMOTIVE PHARMACEUTICAL INNOVATIVE AGRICULTURE INDUSTRY INDUSTRY CLUSTER 1 place 30 63 Unique aerospace companies participants technologies in Russia in terms of milk production growth rate 67% Composite 3 OEM- materials manufacturers – increase in production 3.5% volume in 2017 – annual average growth in Innovative 11% products gross agricultural production Silver Certificate of all cars produced in Russia CLUSTER EXCELLENCE (ESCA) 8 PERSONNEL TRAINING / 2018 AUTOMOTIVE INDUSRTY VOCATIONAL CLASSIC INTERNATIONAL TRAINING CENTER EDUCATION EDUCATION SCHOOL 100 80 International diploma Training programs training areas 7,500 GRADUATES 13, 000 33 Preschool education specialists trained colleges and vocational ANNUALLY schools center 9 “SINGLE WINDOW” SERVICE / 2018 SIMPLE 5 STEPS: Application to Agency for Legal entity Construction and Regional Development of Site selection Follow-up support registration commissioning Kaluga Region benefits and preferences industrial parks and SEZ government agencies and development institutions potential business partners 10 INVESTOR ARDKR personnel and social infrastructure KALUGA REGION: BEST OFFER FOR BUSINESS / 2018 ≈ 200 INVESTMENT PROJECTS 11 Investment portal of Kaluga Region investkaluga.com “SINGLE WINDOW” SERVICE – investment projects’ support algorithm — online application for placement of a production facility — brownfield and greenfield sites, industrial parks and Kaluga SEZ — interactive investment map — government support measures — 8 languages HORIZON INTERACTIVE AWARDS + mobile golden award: version Government Agency 2015/2016 Thank you! .
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