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The Region Oering Great Opportunities! Russian Federation SMOLENSK REGION smolinvest.com Сontents 04 06 07 08 09 10 Geographical Smolensk Transport Competitive Support Smolensk location Region today accessibility edge for small Regional Fund for and medium Entrepreneurship enterprises Support 12 13 14 16 18 19 State support for State support Logistics Priority Phoenix State Safonovo State investment for investment complexes investment sites activity of small Industrial Park Industrial Park activity of large and medium and terminals enterprises enterprises 20 21 22 23 25 26 STABNA Priority Social Development Industry Agriculture Agricultural Special Economic Industry and priorities sector Zone Economic Development Area (PSEDA) of Dorogobuzh 27 28 29 30 31 32 State support Education Healthcare Culture Sport Tourism for agribusiness potential 2 Dear Friends, Let me cordially welcome you to our ancient and heroic Smolensk land. I would like to invite you to take a closer look at our region. The present guide for investors will be an ideal way to highlight numerous opportunities revealed by the Smolensk Region. I feel perfectly sure that the up-to-date overview the sustainable economic development; extensive of the regional potential contained in this guide will eorts are made to improve the investment climate be of great interest to senior and top management and to ensure safe investments of foreign and of companies and enterprises, representatives of domestic capital. business community and a wide range of other The Administration of the Smolensk Region has people willing to know more about the Smolensk worked out a clear investment policy. Region. We provide real support to the investors who Being considered as the Western gate of Russia, strive to establish strong and mutually benecial Smolensk has an economically advantageous relations with the representatives of the Smolensk geographical location which creates prerequisites Region in various business elds. needed to increase and full the investment poten- Our region is open to cooperation with the part- tial of the region. ners who pursue serious interests and good inten- The Smolensk Region is an important transpor- tions. We express our readiness for widening coop- tation and communication hub with the shortest eration in industrial, technological, investment and highways and railways running from Central Russia scientic areas. to Europe. I believe that the Smolensk Region will always Vast territory and rich mineral resources, signi- be a hospitable home for investors. I sincerely wish cant technological and intellectual potential make all the business community prosperity and success the Smolensk Region attractive for investors, in implementing investment projects within the Russian and international companies and nancial region. organisations. The Smolensk Region of today can boast of its Governor most favourable environment created to ensure of the Smolensk Region Alexey Ostrovsky 3 Geographical location The Smolensk Region is the most important transportation and communication hub 60 million people live within a 500-km radius of Smolensk SWEDEN Tallinn FINLAND NORWAY RUSSIAN Helsinki Saint-Petersburg Oslo Stockholm Tallinn Riga ESTONIA Yekaterinburg Riga DANIA LATVIA Moscow Copenhagen LITHUANIA Vilnius Vilnus RUSSIA Hamburg Minsk POLAND Smolensk Amsterdam BELARUS Rotterdam Warsaw Nur-Sultan Hamburg Berlin Brest Brussels Bremen Kiev Luxemburg Prague SLOVAKIA UKRAINE KAZAKHSTAN Paris GERMANY Vienna Bratislava MOLDOVA Rotterdam AUSTRIA Kishinev FRANCE Bern Budapest Zagreb ROMANIA ITALY Belgrade Sevastopol CROATIA Bucharest Novorossiysk Paris SERBIA Soa GEORGIA Rome BULGARIA Tbilisi ALBANIA AZERBAIJAN Tirana ARMENIA Tashkent Berlin Ankara Baku Yerevan TURKMENISTAN GREECE Athens TURKEY Dushanbe Ashgabat Bremen Tunisia TUNISIA SYRIA Tehran Kabul IRAQ Damascus IRAN AFGHANISTAN 4 Tripoli Bagdad It includes 2 transport corridors East-West North-South R120 from Oryol to the E30 (M1 “Belarus”) border with the Republic of Belarus A130 from Moscow SMOLENSK to the border with The Baltic Pipeline the Republic System (BPS – II) of Belarus Main railway line Main railway line A highway from Shanghai GAS The Yamal-Europe to Hamburg (will be laid Gas Pipeline through the territory of the Smolensk Region, commissioning is scheduled for 2024) FEDERATION Novosibirsk Irkutsk Chita Zabaykalye Khabarovsk Ulaanbaatar Vladivostok MONGOLIA Vladivostok Beijin Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN Beijin Tokyo NORTH KOREA JAPAN SOUTH KOREA Tokyo Shanghai CHINA Shanghai 5 Smolensk Region today Saint-Petersburg Pskov Tver Region MOSCOW Region Moscow Region GAGARIN Vitebsk VYAZMA R120 • 140 km from the border of the SMOLENSK Smolensk Region to Moscow • a number of highways connecting Russia with European countries R120 Kaluga Region • favourable conditions for logistics development and terminals А130 Belarus functioning ROSLAVL • 1,900 deposits of mineral resources: Bryansk - brown coal Region - gravel and sand 35% of Russian and 75% - coal clay of international cargo is • 56 deposits of fresh underground waters transported from Western Europe to Russia through the territory • 12 deposits of mineral underground waters of the Smolensk Region Total area: Population: 25 2 urban 10,700 km 1,259 km The main transportation 50,000 km2 1,000,000 municipal settlements of motorways of public hubs are: Smolensk, people districts railways Vyazma, Roslavl 6 Transport accessibility DISTANCE BETWEEN THE CITIES ON M1 “BELARUS” HIGHWAY SMOLENSK MINSK 348 km SMOLENSK MOSCOW 380 km Riga 1 hour 35 minutes Paris 3 hours 40 minutes Riga 1 hour 10 minutes Paris Moscow– Smolensk – 4 hours 2 hours 45 minutes 4 hours “Lastochka” – 4 hours Moscow 50 minutes Smolensk Moscow – Nice – 50 hours Minsk Minsk– Smolensk – 3 hours Berlin 1 hour 45 minutes Warsaw 1 hour 10 minutes Berlin 2 hours 40 minutes Warsaw 2 hours 7 Competitive edge Smolensk Region has entered the Top-20 list of the Russian Regional Investment Climate Index VYAZMA INVESTMENT DEVELOPED INDUSTRIAL PARKS, SPECIAL PREFERENCES INDUSTRY ECONOMIC ZONE AND PRIORITY SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AREAS SMOLENSK TRANSPORTATION QUALIFIED LABOUR, CONGENIAL AND COMMUNICATION HUB AFFORDABLE WORKFORCE BORDER LOCATION ROSLAVL ENERGY APPEALING LEGISLATION PREREQUISITES FOR TOURISM SECURITY IN THE FIELD OF INVESTMENTS DEVELOPMENT: RECREATIONAL ZONES, CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL HERITAGE 8 State support for small INVESTMENT PORTAL and medium enterprises OF THE SMOLENSK REGION smolinvest.com INVESTMENT DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT FUND SMOLENSK REGIONAL OF THE SMOLENSK REGION FUND FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP frprf.ru SUPPORT corp.smolinvest.com The Fund stimulates modernization of Russian sofpmp.ru The Corporation serves industry, encourages new production facilities The Fund performs micronance, consulting to increase investment appeal to appear and ensures import substitution. The Fund services for business management and of the Smolensk Region, attract oers easy terms of cofunding the projects aimed development. It also provides guarantees investments and launch at developing new high-tech products, technical for small and medium-sized enterprises. investment projects within retrotting and establishing competitive production It is entitled to function as state-supported the region, as well as create facilities based on the best available technologies, regional industrial development fund and is investment sites for the investors oering special-purpose loans with the annual authorized to give easy loans on behalf and manage investments interest of 1% and 5% granted for up to 7 years in the of the Federal Industry Development Fund. and borrowed capital. amount ranging from 50 to 750 mln. roubles. FEDERAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF SMALL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND MEDIUM SUPPORT CENTRE ENTERPRISES JSC OF THE SMOLENSK REGION corpmsp.ru cpp67.ru The Corporation is liable The Centre oers its partners free for rendering nancial, information, information and consulting services marketing, property and legal support in marketing, licensing and patenting to small and medium-sized business procedures, legal support, business entities and companies creating planning, recruitment, certication infrastructure to provide this support. of goods, works and services. FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC CLUSTER AND TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL ENTERPRISES CENTRE OF THE SMOLENSK REGION ckr67.ru export67.com The Centre renders state support of The Fund performs micronance. It also fasie.ru small and medium enterprises in the provides guarantees for small and The Fund implements programmes Smolensk Region, united in clusters and medium-sized entities and promotes their of innovative development, aimed operating in the following branches of development. The organization is entitled to establish new high-tech companies the region’s economy: IT, ax breeding, to function as state-supported regional and encourage development of the domestic and inbound tourism, industrial development fund and is existing ones, as well as to increase their composite materials and plastic. authorized to give easy loans on behalf prots resulting from scientic Ecient interaction of business of the Federal Industry Development Fund. and technological activities; it also attracts communities, non-governmental The Fund also assists in receiving lease investments of small innovative enterprises organizations, educational and research nancing on preferential terms. and creates new job opportunties. institutions, public authorities and nancial