CHEREPOVETS: Warm Heart of the Russian North

Investment potential of Cherepovets

2016 2017 Investment potential of Cherepovets: On municipal entity CHEREPOVETS IS THE LARGEST INDUSTRIAL CENTER OF THE NORTH-WEST OF

ADVANTAGES OF THE CITY:

FAVOURABLE PREFERENCES SKILLED TRADITIONS ONGOING ECONOMIC LOGISTICS FOR INVESTORS PERSONNEL OF AN INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTIONS DEVELOPMENT CITY CHEREPOVETS RANKING:

CHEREPOVETS: Warm Heart of the : 12 place : 13 place Russian North «The fastest growing cities ranking», 2015 «30 best cities for business in Russia», 2013 2 Investment potential of Cherepovets: On municipal entity MAIN ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND GEOGRAPHIC FACTORS

Arkhangelsk CITY AREA 122 km

Oslo POPULATION Stockholm 319 Helsinki thousand ЧереповецCherepovets

CAPITAL INVESTMENT IN Riga 130 billion THE LAST 5 YEARS, ROUBLE London Berlin REMOTENESS FROM MOSCOW Luxembourg Warsaw 600 km AND ST.-PETERSBURG Paris Vienna HABITANCY WITHIN A Budapest 50 million RADIUS OF 600 KM airport VOLUME OF PRODUCTION SHIPPED Rome highway BY ENTERPRISESMadrid OF THE CITY OF 1,2% THE TOTAL VOLUME OF PRODUCTION SHIPPED BY ALL waterway

ENTERPRISES OF THE RUSSIAN railway FEDERATION Athens 3 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Transport corridors

The city is located at the junction of all types of transportation lines: federal roads, railway roads, air-corridor from Europe to Asia (international airport), -Baltic Route Helsinki Petrozavodsk

airport

highway Vologda

St.-Petersburg railway

waterway Cherepovets

Kostroma Veliiky Novgorod

Ivanovo Tver

N. Novgorod Moscow

Vladimir Kaliningrad

Cheboksary, Kazan, Ulyanovsk, Samara, Smolensk, Kaluga, Tula, Ryazan Astrakhan, Sochi 4 ГЕОГРАФИЧЕСКОЕ ПОЛОЖЕНИЕ

Investment potential of Cherepovets: Industrial structure of Cherepovets

A defining role in the city’s economy play metallurgical and chemical industries, i.e. 87,8% of the overall production volume

CHEMICAL PRODUCTION сsteel, rolled steel products, steel structures and construction materials 21,8 % PAO «» (JSC «Cherepovets Steel Mill», JSC phosphate raw «Severstal-metiz» and other 66 material and companies of «Severstal Russian % phosphoric Steel» division) fertilizers JSC «PhosAgro- METALLURGICAL PRODUCTION Cherepovets»

WOODWORKING

equipment, automotive engineering 1,3 plywood, wood OJSC «Cherepovets % chipboard casting and mechanical plant», «SSM-Tyazhmash» 4,3 «Cherepovets plywood LLC, Chelyabinsk Steel and furniture plant» JSC Structure Plant, JSC %

ENGINEERING

CJSC «Russian biscuit», OTHER JSC «Cherepovets meat- processing plant», JSC «Cherepovets dairy plant», Fat and oil processing plant 5,3 % 1,3 % 5 FOOD PRODUCTION Investment potential of Cherepovets: Urban development strategy

STRATEGIC GOAL UP TO 2022:

CHEREPOVETS IS A SUCCESSFUL AND ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED CITY

STRATEGIC TERRITORY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HUMAN DEVELOPMENT DIRECTIONS 1 2 3

Comfortable urban Primary industry development Well-educated city environment

Healthy city Efficient housing and utilities infrastructure Small and medium entrepreneurship development Civilized city Modern information

technologies The city of a developed civil МУНИЦИПАЛЬНЫЕIncrease of investment ПРОГРАММЫ society attractiveness

IMPLEMENTATI MUNICIPAL PROGRAMS ON TOOLS Examples: «Support and development of small and «Increasing investment attractiveness of medium entrepreneurship in Cherepovets» for Cherepovets» 2013 – 2017 for 2014 – 2018

* * Approved by the Mayor's office regulation «On Cherepovets development strategy approval up to 2022 «Cherepovets is the city of possibilities» dd. 08.07.2013 № 3147 6 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Business support institutions There are two business support institutions in Cherepovets for economic development assistance: FOUNDERS CHEREPOVETS MAYOR’S OFFICE

INVESTMENT AGENCY URBAN «CHEREPOVETS» DEVELOPMENT AGENCY

THE MAIN TASK OF THE AGENCIES IS CREATING CONDITIONS FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INVESTMENT ACTIVITY DEVELOPMENT

«ONE-STOP PRIORITY PROJECT GUARANTEE ELECTRONIC SERVICE» FOR PROGRAM AND PLEDGE BUSINESS INVESTORS FUND COOPERATION

COORDINATION INVESTMENT INVESTMENT INVESTMENT COUNCIL COMMITTEE OF THE CONSULTING COMPASS MAYOR’S OFFICE CENTER 7 Investment potential of Cherepovets: International Cooperation Center

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION CENTER – INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION COOPERATION

Searching for reliable Localization of manufacturing Center for International partners for in Russia (Cherepovets) Certification and establishing joint ‘turn-key production’ Standardization ventures

School of Export Organization of international Organization (training on export for conferences and forums of business missions the beginners)

The guarantee of communications is the administration of Cherepovets 8 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Business support instruments

CENTRE FOR INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATION AND PRODUCT TESTING February 2017 – the kick-start of the project between «KipMetService Ltd. (Cherepovets) and VTT EXPERT SERVICES OY (Finland)

Goal: to facilitate the entry of Russian companies to foreign markets.

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Investment sites and projects of Cherepovets

2016 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Areas for development

AREAS FOR DEVELOPMENT

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«Центральная» 300 га « » 400 рабочих мест « » 10 проектов - 7 млрд.инвестиций ------Центральная набережная Усадьба Гальских

11 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Northern site

NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL SITE. INDUSTRIAL PARK «CHEREPOVETS» Conception: providing favorable conditions for development of small and medium business entities on the basis of organization of modern productions of traditional specialty and new segments of regional economy in a new industrial cluster

INDUSTRIAL PARK Prospective «CHEREPOVETS» development of 5 a site up to 150 Ha

5 54 Га 26 Га 275 Га 5

INVESTMENT SITE

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 LAND PLOTS  UTILITIES DROP 54,74 HA 150 HA AVAILABLE FOR POINTS – ON RESIDENTS BOUNDARIES OF TOTAL AREA OF THE PROSPECTIVE LAND PLOTS INDUSTRIAL PARK DEVELOPMENT «CHEREPOVETS» OF A SITE 12 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Northern site

879,3 million rouble – co-financing the construction ANNOUNCED of engineering and transport infrastructure (Single- industry city development fund) RESIDENTS

Chipboard plate and building panel plant 234 3 602

Emulsol plant

75 205

Plant of building metal structures

170 700

5 Plant of loose and ore materials 5 150 300

Investments, - Land plots occupied by residents - Vacant land plots New jobs million rub 13 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Northern site

LAND PLOT COST

from 0,26 € /М2 LAND PLOT RENT PRICE PER YEAR

Approx 2,6 € /М2 LAND PLOT REDEMPTION VALUE

DESIGNED CAPACITY OF A PROJECT

natural gas 7000 m3/h railway transport 23 rail cars/day

electric supply 26 Megawatt motor transport 124 cars/day

water supply 72 m3/h utilities drop points on boundaries of land plots of residents

14 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Northern site

NORTHERN INDUSTRIAL SITE. NORTHERN ENTRANCE TO THE CITY

DAIRY CHEESE PLANT THE «NOVYI» GREENHOUSE COMPLEX

 LAND PLOTS AVAILABLE FOR RESIDENTS 38 341 Investments, 94 2300 New jobs million rub 15

Investment potential of Cherepovets: Northern site

Organize your business in the territory of «Severstal-metiz» - an international company which unites metal assets of PAO «Severstal»

TOTAL AREA OF A Distance to the city center: 5,9 km. Ha PRODUCTION ZONE Transport connection with the city housing development 100 Distance to the nearest federal highway (А-114 Vologda — ): 13 km, railway lines 2 SMALL AND MEDIUM >60 BUISINESS RESIDENTS Distance to the nearest international airport: 23 km

DEVELOPED ENGINEERING AND Инвестиционные проекты заявленных резидентов: TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE

ЗАВОД ПО ПРОИЗВОДСТВУ FAVORABLE СТРУЖЕЧНО-ЦЕМЕНТНЫХ CONDITIONS OF LEASE 54,47 Га (ФИБРОЛИТОВЫХ) СТЕНОВЫХ INVESTMENT SITE ПАНЕЛЕЙ И ПЛИТ AND PURCHASE OF (Brownfield type) PRODUCTION AREAS ТРУБОПРОФИЛЬНЫЙ ЗАВОД AND BUILDINGS ЗАВОД ПО ПРОИЗВОДСТВУ ГИПСОКАРТОНА SECURED AREA

16 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Northern site

JSC «Severstal-Metiz» proposes the following freestanding building for lease /sale in the industrial site of Cherepovets

Three-storey building with the total area of 6000 sq. m Possibility to lease 4 ha premises

INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITY CAPACITY: PRESENCE/ UNIT OF NAME OF RESOURCE VALUE OF MEASURE RESOURCE Electricity megawatt 4,8 Gas supply m3/hr available Heating Gcal available

Drinking water m3/hr available

Sanitary sewer system m3/hr available Railway transport wagons/week 2-3 Motor transport cars/day 5-10 Frame crane tons 5 Frame crane tons 2 Electric hoist tons 1 Electric hoist tons 1

Ceiling height from 4,8 m up to 10,8 m 17 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Northern site Photo fixation of buildings and spaces

Former boiler house building Shower rooms (administration and amenity block)

Workshop (ceiling height 4 m) Workshop (ceiling height 6 m) Modern shower rooms, administration and amenity blocks (rooms), WC facilities 18 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Northern site JSC «Severstal-Metiz» proposes the following freestanding building for lease /sale in the Cherepovets industrial site

Rent and energy cost for residents*

Cost inc. Services rendered Unit of measure Unit price Tax rate VAT, rouble

Office rental (without utilities) sq.m./month 178 18% 210 Production space rental sq.m./month 72 18% 85 (without utilities) Electric supply thousand kWh 3 406 18% 4 019,08 Heat supply Gcal 797 18% 940,46 thousand cubic Drinking water 17 686 18% 20 869,48 meters thousand cubic Waste water 15 498 18% 18 287,64 meters *resident is a legal entity or a private entrepreneur, a registered taxpayer of Vologda region which leases premises/buildings or owns property in the territory of the Cherepovets industrial site of «Severstal-metiz»

19 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Southern site

SOUTHERN SITE. THE SOUTHERN TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER

 GATHERING The cluster conception assumes REQUESTS organization of about 35 FROM BUSINESS enterprises in the sphere of consumer goods, food, engineering and other industries (i.e. productions which do not create environmental pressure).

INVESTMENT SITE FOR The cluster area will include a hi- HI-TECH PARK CONSTRUCTION (10 Ha) tech park in the sphere of forest industry complex and manufacturing industries which will unite educational, research г. Череповец and development and pilot-scale production sectors.

«THE SOUTHERN TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER» (150 Ha)

20 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Southern site HI-TECH COMPLEX SERVES TO UNITE 4 DIRECTIONS:

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING RESEARCH AND PILOT PRODUCTION SERVICE OF ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL PERSONNEL

TOTAL AREA OF SPACES: 6 818 SQ. M. (RENTABLE SPACE 5 050 SQ. M.)  Professional competence center . Russian engineering timber  Spaces for pilot production . Telecommunication service  classrooms industry production center  Education and production (Internet, telephone, postal  meeting rooms . Center of timber industry classrooms service) . 370-seat conference hall  administration block spaces production certification,  Cherepovets Integrated standardization and testing . Production equipment repair  Youth innovation creativity Engineering Competence . centers center Prototyping center and Center consultant engineering agency . Office space complex  Education and production on fire protection technologies . Coworking center classrooms and laboratories . Instant print center  Forest museum . Hotel complex . Cafe

Non-profit Cherepovets State «KIPMETSERVIS», LLC Joensuu science University organization «Wood park (Finland) housing association»

Research forest institute of Anchor companies of the Cluster: «Vzlet-Cherepovets», LLC Finland 38 organizations of timber

Cherepovets Technical processing complex including JSC «GorMash-YuL», LLC Fund on development School, Sokol forest “Cherepovets plywood and of construction and polytechnic school etc housing and communal furniture plant”, OJSC “Sokol DSR International services “Finedu wood-working plant” and others Consulting Group Finland” 21

Investment potential of Cherepovets: Central site

CENTRAL SITE. TOURIST2 AND RECREATION CLUSTER «THE CENTRAL QUAY OF THE CITY» Conception: integrated development of coastal territories of the city central part, creation of tourist, public and recreation infrastructure facilities

WE KINDLY OFFER BUSINESS TO CONSIDER THE POSSIBILITY OF PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION IN THE SERVICE SECTOR: HOTELS, RESTAURANTS, CAFES AND RECREATION CENTERS

The cluster is included into Funds of Private Federal 82 The Federal Special Purpose 817 investment 194 regional and Program in a part of Million Million funds Million municipal rouble rouble rouble budgets engineering and transport infrastructure construction22 СОЦИАЛЬНО-ДЕМОГРАФИЧЕСКАЯ СИТУАЦИЯ

Череповец - город с развитым человеческим потенциалом

Investment potential of Cherepovets: Eastern site

EASTERN SITE. ORGANIZATION OF A SHIPYARD IN THE WATER AREA CONTENT: RESULT: construction of a repair facility in Cherepovets for river and river-sea going vessels cruising in inland waterways with a all vessel AIM: lightship weight of up to 2600 tons, repair service/ length of up to 140 m, width of up to 18 m, production of with prospects for further development small size vessels creation of a shipyard of shipbuilding/ and development construction of base on of transregional cooperation production of small in a new segment of size vessels regional economy

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Investment potential of Cherepovets: Eastern site

An investment site of 8,9 Ha on Belinskogo street was reserved for project implementation in Cherepovets INVESTMENT SITE ADVANTAGES OF THE SITE Access to the , the North Sea, the Black Sea, the Azov Sea and the Mediterranean Sea through the Volga-Baltic waterway system.

1 A large industrial port on and passenger port on the Sheksna river can provide the shipyard partial load. IV SECTION OF THE VOLGA- BALTIC WATERWAY

Possibility to attract customers of the North-West and the Central part of Russia.

1 The shipbuilding sector was being historically developed in the city. Since 1947 the Cherepovets Shipyard has been working. Technical capacity of the shipyard allowed to build and repair vessels with a lightship weight of up to 1200 tons.

Vologda region, Cherepovets, area along Belinskaya street in cadastral unit 35:21:0202003 24 CHEREPOVETS: Warm Heart of the Russian North

Investment project implementation – support measures

2016 Investitionspotential der Stadt Tscherepowez Die wichtigsten Stakeholder THE MAIN STAKEHOLDERS

REGIONAL LEVEL FEDERAL LEVEL

Vologda Region Government

Single-industry city development Agency for Strategic Initiatives fund LOCAL LEVEL The Ministry The Ministry of Industry of Economic Development and Trade of of the Russian the Russian FOSAGRO AG Federation Federation

The Ministry The Ministry of Culture of Transport of the Russian of the Russian Federation Federation CITY POPULATION 26 Инвестиционный потенциал города Череповца: конкурентные преимущества CHEREPOVETS IS A PRIORITY SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AREA Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation provides the status of a Priority social and economic development area for single-industry towns. It involves the establishment of a special tax regime for businesses for 10 years.

GOALS : WHO CAN BECOME A RESIDENT? Formation of an enabling environment A resident of a Priority social and economic to attract investment, to ensure the development area can become any enterprise accelerated development of the economy developing its business in Cherepovets with an and creation of favorable conditions for investment of no less than 20 million rouble within the population. 10 years and creation of minimum 20 jobs within 1st year. TAX RELIEFS:

Land Profit Tax Property Contributions tax 1-5 years tax to non-budget 1-10 years 1-10 years funds 1-10 years

10% 6-10 years instead 20% instead 2,2% instead 1,5% instead 30%

27 * this reduced rate of insurance is used in regard to residents which have received such a status not later than within three years from the day of a Priority social and economic development area establishment in a single-industry city Investment potential of Cherepovets: Forms of support REGIONAL TAX BENEFITS PROVIDED FOR PRIORITY INVESTMENT PROJECTS

INVESTMENT VOLUME INVESTMENT VOLUME INVESTMENT VOLUME 100 - 500 MILLION 500 MILLION - 1 OVER 1 BILLION ROUBLE BILLION ROUBLE ROUBLE

Organizations Lowered to 13,5% for Lowered to 13,5% for Lowered to 13,5% for 4 years 1 income tax 3 years 5 years

100% tax exemption for 3 years, 100% tax exemption for 3 years, 2 Organizations 100% tax exemption for 3 years later on – tax rate lowered to later on – tax rate lowered to property tax 1,1% for 1 year 1,1% for 2 years

Transportation 100% tax exemption for 3 years 100% tax exemption for 4 years 100% tax exemption for 5 years 3 tax

For residents implementing an investment project at the total cost of over 100 million rouble and which is included into the List of priority investment projects of the region, Decree of the Government of Vologda region “On procedure for forming the list of priority investment projects" dd. 28.10.2013 N 1114 28 Investment potential of Cherepovets: Forms of support

POSSIBLE PREFERENCES FOR INVESTORS IN CASE OF LAND PLOT ASSIGNMENT

Fixed basic annual rent in auction setting - 1,5% of land plot 1,5% cadastral values without the procedure of market price evaluation by an independent assessor

Decision is made at the Investment committee of the Cherepovets mayor's office for investment projects being implemented in the strategically important direction for economic development of the city ! Obtaining a land plot on lease with no tendering process

Decision is made at the Investment committee of the Governor of Vologda region for large-scale investment projects of the region

29 Investment potential of Cherepovets: The Ist International Industrial Forum in Cherepovets.

THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL FORUM CHEREPOVETS. SEPTEMBER 2017 PURPOSE: ATTRACTING INVESTORS THROUGH THE PRESENTATION OF THE INVESTMENT POTENTIAL OF THE CITY DIRECTIONS: 250 PARTICIPANTS: Social and Economic Priority The international Development Area: factors of cooperation in the areas • enterprises and trade industry development and benefits for the investor of woodworking and associations of the woodworking mechanical engineering and engineering branch of Russia; Certification and • trade representations, branch Business-cooperation standardization associations and enterprises of New technologies: Finland, Germany, Poland, Business for export woodworking England, Netherlands; • representatives of business and B2B-negotiations, government development business-tour to the enterprises and investment sites, institutions excursions 30 CONTACTS:

Mayor of Cherepovets Our team kindly invites You Kuzin Yuri Aleksandrovich 8 (8202) 50-39-48 (reception) for cooperation! [email protected]

Deputy mayor with responsibility for social and Cherepovets is open economic development of the city Ananin Mikhail Anatolyevich for investors! 8 (8202) 50-17-70 (reception) [email protected]

General director of autonomous noncommercial organization «Investment agency «Cherepovets Andreeva Oksana Rudolfovna For more information 8 (8202) 20-19-28 (reception) on sites, business [email protected] ideas and proposals please visit our website ia-cher.ru 31