The real Siberia 1 Dear ladies and gentlemen! Tyumen region is the region of possibilities. The possibilities are created by common efforts. Reading our articles in the publication you can see the most current information about Tyumen region and people are living there. We are solving the general assignment all together, to be more exact, we are creating business enabling environment, promoting sound economy, setting up new industrial establishments and workplaces. We are glad to cooperate with, we are happy to actively support your constructive proposals and ideas of new projects so we are keeping up our entrepreneurial spirit. I am convinced that any support and encouragement of business initiative leads us to the success foundation of economic and social modernization of any territory. The economic period encourage us to further action and open new perspectives and possibilities. We need your new ideas and interesting projects. We should put ambitious goals for getting it done. Good luck to you and your business! I am always glad to see you in Tyumen region. Looking forward to a further cooperation. Governor of Tyumen Region V. V. Yakushev WHAT IS THE TYUMEN REGION? The Tyumen region is the connecting link The region is inherently strategic as the shortest access between the East and West, and the oil and gas route to the largest oil, gas and infrastructure project industrial region in the North and the Urals. markets of Khanty-Mansiysk and Yamal-Nenets Area Autonomous district. 160,100 km2 Population 1.4 M People (on December 1 2015) The Moscow-Vladivostok road that runs through the region also forms part of the Berlin-Beijing corridor The trans-Siberian railway connects the There are 37 active hydrocarbon deposits. area with other regional centers of Mineral water (25 Russia. Predicted resource volume in Resources the South of the region is thousand cubic There are regular direct international Russia's meters per day) flights from Roschino airport (Tyumen) to estimated at 1.8 billion tons largest Significant reserves of Germany, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Timber reserves are estimated reserves of mortar sand (442 million Armenia and Tajikistan, as well as 10 at 924 million cubic meters. peat(2.6 cubic meters),clay (397 flights to Moscow daily. The flight time is Potential harvest volume is up billion tons) million cubic meters) 2 hours and 40 minutes. to 15.6 million cubic meters per year Why you should choose Tyumen region? Major international and Russian companies trust us: INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE ECONOMY IN ACTION A few dozen new plants in the last 3 years; the index of industrial production for the past 6 years has averaged 115% COMPLEX FINANCIAL SUPPORT TAX INCENTIVES Reduction of the regional component of the income tax to 4 Decrease of the corporate property tax rates (0% up to 3 ye from the date of commissioning within the volume of investments from 300 mln. rubles. for all types of manufacturing industries); Provision of benefits for land and transport tax INDUSTRIAL PARK platform for the creation of industrial parks PROFESSIONAL SUPPORT AND MAINTENANCE Administrative support of investment projects AVAILABILITY OF ADVANCED RESEARCH CENTERS AND HIGH CONCENTRATION OF SCIENTIFIC CLUSTERS The region has over 40 scientific research institute HIGH solvency of the population and living standards We have major oil and gas companies and research DEVELOPED INFRASTRUCTURE OF QUALITY STAFF TRAINING institutes located in the region: DEVELOPED INFRASTRUCTURE OF QUALITY STAFF TRAINING 4 MAIN ECONOMIC INDICATORS INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION INDEX INVESTMENT IN FIXED CAPITAL ( bln.RUB) The volume of industrial production Investments in fixed capital has increased 3 times has increased 2.4 times in this period in this period MAIN ECONOMIC INDICATORS GROSS REGIONAL PRODUCT Gross Regional Product (GRP) has increased The share of investment in fixed by 2.4 times (at current prices) in this period assets in the GRP COMFORTABLE LIVING CONDITIONS The leader in of quality life The average monthly salary in the region is 34,120 Free WI-FI access Rubles. Almost half of the population has a car (there are 380,000 cars per 700,000 people) The Tyumen region has 131 hotspots; most administrative districts Five family recreation parks offer free Internet access including 57 hotspots in Tyumen and 28 hotspots in Tobolsk, Ishim, Yalutorovsk, Zavodoukovsk. The -Gilyovskaya roscha hotspots are located in popular areas throughout the city —in recreational complexes and health and educational institutions. -Komsomolskiy Park -Gagarin's Park -Aleksandrovskiy Sad -Skver Deputatov Social activities •The Tyumen Drama Theatre was founded in 1858. The Tyumen new This is one of the best embankment in Russia Drama Theatre was built in 2008. With the area of 36,000 square meters, it is the biggest Drama Theatre in Russia. There are a lot of incredible and interesting places •The Tyumen Philharmonic is one of the lead concert places of the you can visit. Every buildings and monument is a part Ural-Siberian region. of history. If the weather is good you can walk for •The Tyumen Puppet Theatre gave its first performance in 1945 just hours as the place is very beautiful. after the war. •The Tyumen Regional Museum of Local Lore is named after I. Y. Slovtsov •The Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts. •The Tyumen State Circus was founded in 1897. The Circus still remains a popular place. This is one of the main landmarks of the city today. 7 •Tyumen has 11 cinemas with several halls. COMFORTABLE LIVING CONDITIONS SPORT CENTERS: •The Pearl of Siberia regional winter sports center in Tyumen is a modern training and competition HOTELS facility, which has an independent infrastructure that offers all types of training The guests can stay in different types of hotels. They can to Russian world-class athletes. It is also used as make a reservation in a budget hostel, mini-hotel, three-star a competition venue for various championships, hotel or a luxury four-or-five-star hotel. including the Continental Cup, World Cup, World Championships. There are some of the most popular hotels: - MERCURE Tyumen –192 - Best Western Spasskaya – 84 •Tyumen-Judo is an Olympic Training Center with - Remezov – 108 a unique training system. They provide all - Business hotel Eurasia –87 necessary conditions for professional training and - Green House Hotel –42 holding top level competitions: Grand Slam, - Vostok –386 World Masters, Olympic Hopefuls and Sansay - DoubleTree by Hilton – 195 Cup. New projects that are in process: •Athletics Arena is a contemporary sports center. Domina Hotel – 177 It hosts trainings and competitions in athletics and Hampton by Hillton – 136 climbing. There is a special training range with an IBIS – 150 inclined athletic track, a sports arena, a shot put sector, long jump and pole vaulting sectors. They are proud of their climbing wall, which is one of the most modern ones in Russia. 8 COMFORTABLE LIVING CONDITIONS Health resorts Health resort Volna - 80 beds Health resort Geolog - 175 beds Center of remedial therapy and rehabilitation Zhemchuzhny - 90 beds Hospital of remedial therapy Lastochka - 150 beds Health and recreation resort Svetly -100 beds Center of restorative medicine and rehabilitation Siberia - 593 beds Center of restorative medicine and rehabilitation Snezhinka - 240 beds Rehabilitation center Taraskul’ – 825 beds Health and recreation resort Khvoyny – 120 beds Health resort Ingala - 350 beds Center of restorative Medicine and rehabilitation Alchmanka - 87 beds Health and recreation resort Sosnovy Bor - 90 beds 9 INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT Construction projects in progress : There are 11 transport infrastructure facilities including: •Eastern Bypass construction •Montasznikov road interchange over the railway •Melnikaite bridge •Fedyuninckogo-Melnikaite road interchange Roshchino International Airport is under reconstruction. The Tyumen region pursues the developmental project to build ‘a medical city’, an infrastructure of high-tech medical facilities. 10 Interesting facts about Tyumen In 1960s, large deposit of ‘black gold’ were discovered within a few hundred kilometers north of Tyumen. In a short while Tyumen turned into an administrative centre managing the huge oil and gas industry. Contrary to the The small village of common belief, Tyumen was Pokrovskoye, 80 km away not founded by Ermak, but by from Tyumen, is the voivodes Vasily Sukin and birthplace of the famous Ivan Myasnoy. Tsar Feodor I Grigory Rasputin. In 1991, ordered to found a city to Marina Smirnova, a facilitate Russia's eastward historian, opened the first expansion. The Tyumen Russian private museum in garrison was the largest and Pokrovskoye. At weekends most multinational one in she gives guided tours of the In 1834 Tobolsk Siberia. museum herself. (240 km north of Tyumen) is the birthplace of In 1959 Tyumen had Dmitri Mendeleev, the a population of some 150 most famous chemist in the thousand people. Today, just world. half a century later, it is 700 thousand, 4,6 times as much As of now, Tyumen is 25th largest city in Russia by population. Interesting facts about Tyumen In 2008 the Miss World title was won by Ksenia Suhinova, a student of the Tyumen State Oil and Gas In 1945 the American prophet On the assessment of the world's leading University Edgar Cayce, 99% of all consulting campaign McKinsey, Tyumen, by predictions came true, said the 2025, will be among the 600 cities that will following: "In Western Siberia shape the economic development of the world already is the