INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! The main priorities for the Saratov region are and will be a sustainable economy, investment attraction, creating a de- veloped infrastructure, and the well-being of its residents. Today, we are actively building new roads, industrial enter- prises, schools, and medical centers. We are setting the re- cords in agriculture and successfully solving the problem of import substitution, entering the foreign markets. Among our strong points are cutting-edge ideas, innovations, and power- ful production grounds and human resources. The region has a consistent investment policy. Together with our partner, the agency for strategic initiatives, we have developed new stan- 2 CREATE WITH SARATOV dards and roadmaps for working with investors. JSC “The Saratov region development Corporation” and the annual Saratov economic forum «Moving only forward!» also contribute to improving the business climate. We also associate the fulfillment of the huge investment potential of the region with the implementation of major infrastructure projects – a new modern Gagarin airport was intro- duced in 2019, TOSER operates in the single-industry town of Petrovsk, Saratov agglomeration, and a special economic zone was created in 2020. These and many other projects set the modern spatial and economic development of the territories of municipalities, using their advantages, providing em- ployment, increasing the well-being of people. All this great work gives significant results: the region becomes comfortable for life, interesting for business, and attractive for investment. The Saratov region sets ambitious goals and confidently looks to the future. Valery Radaev, Governor of the Saratov region 3 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGES • High human and scientific potential • Most-favored-nation treatment • Convenient location for investors and developed logistics • Prompt solutions • More than 600 free investment platforms of infrastructure issues for various purposes • Energy surplus 4 CREATE WITH SARATOV • Differentiated resource and raw material base • Favorable soil and climate conditions • Low cost of construction of housing, industrial and commercial real estate • Own regional gas production, complete gasification of settlements and enterprises 5 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION SCIENTIFIC POTENTIAL: • 18 educational institutions of higher and higher vocational education • 60 enterprises engaged in research and development • 54 professional educational organizations • 7 scientific institutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences • 27 industry research institutes and organizations 6 CREATE WITH SARATOV LABOR RESOURCES: • Population – 2 421,8 thousand people • Labor force of – 1 196,5 thousand people • 1 051,4 thousand people – are employed in the economy • Labor force with higher vocational education is – 32,4% of population 7 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION EXPORT AND IMPORT: Foreign trade turnover for 2019 • 2,016 billion $ 108 660 trading exporters partner countries Main export partners: Turkey, Kazakhstan, Germany, Brazil, Azerbaijan, USA Main import partners: • exports – 1,3 billion $ China, Indonesia, Austria, • imports – 0,7 billion $ Italy, Germany, Belarus 8 CREATE WITH SARATOV • The second place in Russia for the export of sunflower husk • The second place in Russia for the export of railway equipment • The fourth place in Russia for the export of leguminous crops ANO «EXPORT SUPPORT CENTER OF THE SARATOV REGION» 9 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION ULYANOVSK PENZA Р228 TRANSPORT TAMBOV SAMARA Р158 Р226 INFRASTRUCTURE Р208 • The Volga river is a water Е38 ORENBURG connection with access to the Caspian, HAMBURG Mediterranean, Baltic (GERMANY) and Barents seas 645 km – SARATOV the longest section • River port VORONEZH Р298 • 9 federal highways Е38 Р226 • Airport Р228 Р236 SHANGHAI The implementation of the transit • South-Eastern (P.R. CHINA) and Volga Railways potential of the region is achieved • Developed by creating transport and logistics hubs VOLGOGRAD KAZAKHSTAN public transport and promoting goods in the «West – network East» directions 10 CREATE WITH SARATOV • The new airport provides reception for all types of modern mainline aircrafts. • The terminal has a capacity of up to 1 million passengers per year. • The total area of the terminal Gagarin international airport is 23 thousand square meters. was put into operation in 2019 • 25 aircraft parking spaces are provided 11 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION Construction of the Western bypass of the Saratov junction of the Volga railway Tatishchevo • Possibility to increase suburban railway traffic Volga river Kurdyum the within the city of Saratov Possibility to increase Saratov I suburban railway traffic within the city of Saratov Saratov- • Development of the additional volume of cargo Port transportation through the Saratov junction in the amount of 46.0 million tons: including 30 million tons in the direction Burkin of the Azov-Black sea ports • Moving the flow of freight cars with dangerous goods out of the city 12 CREATE WITH SARATOV INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE: PROVISION OF ELECTRICITY, GAS AND PROCESSING STEAM; AIR CONDITIONING PLANTS 18,1% EXTRACTION OF MINERALS 6,1% 73,7% WATER SUPPLY, SANITATION, 2,1% ORGANIZATION OF WASTE COLLECTION AND DISPOSAL, ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE POLLUTION 13 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION THE SARATOV REGION PROVIDES: • 27,4% of sofa production • 18% of sulfuric acid production • 13,3% of bearings production • 11,1% of mineral fertilizers production based on 100% of nutrients • 5,3% of synthetic detergents production • 3,9 % of electricity production 14 CREATE WITH SARATOV The energy hub, consisting of the Saratov HPP, CHPP-4, Balakovo NPP, and the Balakovo branch of JSC Apatit, is one of the largest in the Russian Federation Balakovo NPP – provides the fifth part of electricity production in the Volga Federal district and the sixth one of the output of all nuclear power plants in the country Saratov HPP is a major energy The total installed capacity facility in the region with of power plants is 6598 MW, an annual output regional consumption is only 32% of more than 5.4 billion kWh 15 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION The total capacity of solar power plants The project «Construction of a wind is 45 MW (Yershovsky, Novouzensky and farm» with total capacity of 228.6 MW Pugachevsky districts) Dergachevskaya SES (Krasnoarmeysky district) with a capacity of 60 MW is under construction has been planned (stage 1 – 25 MW, stage 2 – 20 MW) 16 CREATE WITH SARATOV THE PETROCHEMICAL CLUSTER The Saratov region is one of the oldest oil and gas producing regions in Russia. It carries out its own oil production with full subsequent processing of oil, which ensures absolute stability and independence of the regional fuel market. The Saratov region is the only region where there is an almost complete technological chain of production of LARGE ENTERPRISES: PAN composites: from raw materials (acrylic acid • PJSC “Saratov oil refinery” nitrile) and fiber materials to carbon fiber. A number • LLC “Saratovorgsintez” of companies are the largest and the only producers • Balakovo branch of JSC “Apatit“ of such products. 17 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION METALLURGICAL ENTERPRISES • JSC «Balakovo Metallurgical plant» is the first manufacturer of rolled products in the Volga Federal district and the leading enterprise of the electrometallurgical industry in Russia. • JSC «Balakovo Centrolit» is a plant where automatic and robotic technological lines for forming and manufacturing rods, conveyors for casting steel operate. 18 CREATE WITH SARATOV TRANSPORT ENGINEERING: • JSC «Plant of metal structures». Production of freight rolling stock – 4,500 units per year • JSC “Transmash”. Production of railcars, tracks and snow removal equipment – 2,000 freight cars per year • LLC “Robert Bosch Saratov”. Production of automotive components (spark plugs, mass air flow sensors, etc.) 19 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION UNCLAIMED RESERVES POTENTIAL RESOURCES OF MINERAL RESOURCES: GAS – 1 trillion m3 • Chalk, limestone OIL – 700 million tons • Clay rocks for the production of bricks, expanded clay, cement • Sands and sandstones • High quality mineral waters of balneological, medicinal, table kinds • Potassium and magnesium salts • Sulfur • Phosphorites • Siliceous rocks 20 CREATE WITH SARATOV PRIORITY AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT: • Development of Savelievskoye, Ozinskoye, Kotsubinskoye deposits and mining of oil shale • Oil-dissolved gas utilization AVAILABILITY OF STRATEGIC MINERALS: • Rare earth metal rhenium • Shale coke 21 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION MINERAL RESOURCE POTENTIAL PRIORITY AREAS OF DEVELOPMENT: IS A BASE FOR THE PRODUCTION Modernization of production facilities and OF BUILDING MATERIALS: introduction of new technologies for the • Cement raw materials production of environmental construction • Construction, glass and molding sands and finishing materials • Brick and expanded clay • Crushed stone • Gravel • Chalk • Mineral paints 22 CREATE WITH SARATOV FOOD AND PROCESSING INDUSTRY 23 INVESTMENT PASSPORT OF THE SARATOV REGION AGRICULTURE IN 2019: • The first place for the production of sunflower among the regions of the Russian Federation (2027,3 thousand tons) • The first place for the gross gathering vegetables of open and closed ground among the regions of Privolzhsky