RIVNE REGION INVESTMENT PASSPORT Rivne Region State Administration 1, Maydan Prosvity, St. Rivne, 33000, Ukraine tel.: +38 (0362) 69-52-16 fax: +38 (0362) 26-08-35 e-mail:[email protected] www.rv.gov.ua InvestInRivne Agency 19, Hetmana Mazepy St. Rivne, 33028, Ukraine tel./fax: +38 (0362) 26-95-65 e-mail:[email protected] www.InvestInRivne.org CONTENTS DESCRIPTION OF THE REGION Rivne region on the map . 2 General information . 3 Infrastructure . 4 Natural resources . .5 Human resources . .6 Education . 7 Economy . 8 Export-import . 10 Investments and construction . 11 . Support for investors . 12. Property . 13 After hours . 14. Sports and leisure . .15 . Tourism . .16 . Hotels, health resorts and recreation facilities . 17 . PRIORITY SPHERES AND INVESTMENT PROJECTS Logistics . 18 . Alternative energy . .20 . WOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY . 22 CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS AND GLASSWORK . .24 . Food industry . 26 Notes . 28. 1 RIVNE REGION ON THE MAP DISTANCES FROM RIVNE TO SELECTED EUROPEAN CAPITALS 2,169 km London 1,845 km Brussels 1,131 km Berlin 1,076 km Prague 1,039 km Vienna 794 km Budapest 474 km Warsaw Warsaw London Berlin RIVNE Brussels Prague Vienna Budapest DISTANCES FROM RIVNE TO THE BORDER CROSSING POINTS WITH EUROPEAN UNION POLAND HUNGARY ROMANIA SLOVAKIA • Yagodin 202 km • Batyevo 475 km • Porubne 368 km • Malyi Bereznyi 470 km • Ustylug 161 km • Solovka 486 km • Teresva 541 km • Uzhhorod 481 km • V -Volynskyi. 148 km • Kosyno 436 km • Rakhiv 419 km • Chop 484 km • Rava-Ruska 245 km • Vylok 486 km • Solotvyno 465 km • Shehyni 290 km • Krakivets 277 km • Mostyska 278 km • Khyriv 322 km • Smilnytsya 336 km • Uhryniv 217 km 2 GENERAL INFORMATION Rivne region is an industrial and agricultural region rich in natural resources and holding considerable manufacturing and investment potential. The region is located in the north-west of Ukraine and enjoys favorable geographic position for servicing the markets of the European Union, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. Sharing its borders with Volyn, Zhytomir, Khmelnitskyi, Ternopil and Lviv regions of Ukraine it also has the national boundary with the Republic of Belarus. TERRITORIAL SYSTEM PERCIPITATION Regional capital: From 600 to 700 mm a year. • Rivne city Mild continental climate with mild winter Administrative structure: and warm summer. • 16 districts • 4 cities of regional subordination AVERAGE TEMPERATURE State borders: January: -5.2°С, July: +18.5°С • Republic of Belarus Distance to the EU border: SUNNY DAYS PER YEAR – 70 • 100 km Area of the region — 20.1 thousand km2: • agricultural land 46% Minsk · Saint-Petersburg BELARUS • forest 40% REPUBLIC Zarichne DEMOGRAPHICS Dubrovytsia Population of the region: 1.2 million people: • urban 47 8% . Volodymyrets • rural 52 2% . Sarny Rokytne Key cities: Kovel · Warsaw • Rivne 248 .3 thousand people Kyiv · Moscow • Dubno 38 1. thousand people • Varash 40 0. thousand people VOLYN • Ostroh 15 .3 thousand people REGION Berezne ZHYTOMYR Kostopil REGION The birth rate – 14.9 per 1,000 people of the Lutsk · Warsaw actual population (1st place in Ukraine) Korets RIVNE Hoshcha Kyiv ALTITUDE ABOVE SEA LEVEL — 187 m Mlyniv Zdolbuniv The peak of the region is 372 m Demydivka Dubno Ostroh Khmelnitsky · Odessa · Simferopol KHMELNITSKYI LVIV Radyvyliv REGION Regional center State border REGION Ternopil · Bucharest District center Regional border Lviv · Krakow · Budapest TERNOPIL District border REGION 3 INFRASTRUCTURE Rivne region has advantageous geographic location at the crossroads of international highways and railway lines connecting Europe with Asia and the Baltic Sea with the Black Sea. The distance to the EU border is just 100 km (1.5 hours drive) and 250 km (3 hours drive) to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. MAJOR MOTORWAYS AIRPORT RIVNE International Airport designed for acceptance, International highways: maintenance and dispatching of all the aircrafts with the • Е 4 0 (Brussels – Dresden – Krakow – Rivne – Kyiv) takeoff mass up to 210 tonnes is just two kilometres away • Е 3 7 3 (Lublin – Chelm – Kovel – Sarny – Kyiv) from the city of Rivne. The airport embraces an area of • Е 8 5 (Klaipeda – Vilnius – Dubno – 165 ha. It has one runaway 2,626 m long and 42 m wide. – Bucharest – Alexandroupolis) Throughput: National and regional roads: • passenger traffic — 500 passenger per hour; • Н 2 2 (Ustyluh – Lutsk – Rivne) • freight traffic — 50 tons per day. • Р 0 5 (Horodysche – Rivne – Starokostiantyniv) • Р 2 6 (Ostroh – Kremenets – Pochaiv – Radyvyliv) • Р 7 6 (“Prykladnyky” chekpoint – Zarichne – Dubrovytsia) • Р 7 7 (Rivne – Tuchyn – Hoshcha) Minsk · Saint-Petersburg BELARUS REPUBLI RAILWAY NETWORK Zarichne Rivne region has developed railway network P-05 of public service with the running length of 587 km. Dubrovytsia Rivne Passenger and Freight Railway Station is situated at Zdolbuniv-Kovel and Zdolbuniv-Sarny lines. Rail junctions Zdolbyniv and Sarny are one of the largest Volodymyrets in Western Ukraine. Zdolbyniv station has direct Sarny Rokytne connection with 9 regions of Ukraine and capitals of such Е373 Kovel · Warsaw Е373 neighboring states as Poland, Belarus and Russia. Kyiv · Moscow Rail junctions: Rivne, Zdolbyniv, Sarny, Dubno, Radyvyliv VOLN Berezne REGION BUS TERMINALS ZHYTOMR There is RIVNE Bus Terminal in the city of Kostopil REGION Rivne (40 Kyivska St.) with the capacity of 600 trips Lutsk · Warsaw a day and CHAIKA Bus Station (16b Haharin St.) H-22 with the capacity of about 290 trips a day. Korets RIVNE Kyiv International, interregional and intercity traffic E 85 E 40 Hoshcha is carried from bus terminal. Intraregional Mlyniv E 40 Zdolbuniv traffic is carried from bus station. Demydivka Dubno P-05 E 85 Ostroh Khmelnitsky · Odessa · Simferopol Regional center Motorways E 40 KHMELNITSKI LVIV District center Motorways name Radyvyliv REGION REGION State border Railway Ternopil · Bucharest Regional border Rail junctions Lviv · Krakow · Budapest TERNOPIL District border Airport REGION 4 NATURAL RESOURCES Rivne Region is located in the territory of three natural zones: Forest Steppes, Polissia, and Small Polissia. A characteristic feature of the regions location is general flatness of its surface with a slight inclination of the territory from South to North. LAND RESOURCES – 21.1 thousand km2 STRUCTURE OF THE REGIONAL SOIL RESERVES The soils of the southern part of the region are mostly Agricultural land gray forest podsolized and low-humus black earths. Soils 46.4% • 30.0 thousand ha of the Northern part are mostly of sod-podzolic type. Forest sheltered area 40.1% • 03. thousand ha Waterlogged lands WATER RESOURCES 5.2% • 0. thousand ha • Availability of water resources is twice Built-up lands 2.9% • 57.7 thousand ha higher than the national average Water 2.2% • 3.3 thousand ha • 171 rivers (general length – 4,459 km) Lands without vegetation the largest of which are – Pripyat, Stir, with insignificant vegetation cover 1.6% • 32. thousand ha Ikva, Goryn, Sluch, Stygva, L’va Other lands 1.6% • 32.7 thousand ha • 130 lakes (floor area – 33.3 km2) 0 25 50 the largest of which are – Nobel (4.99 km2), Bile (4.53 km2), Ostrivske (1.12 km2) BELARUS REPUBLI MINERAL RESOURCES Zarichne 600 mineral deposits of 18 types of minerals explored in the region: Dubrovytsia • Amber – the only industrial deposits explored in Ukraine • Basalt – unique deposits of feedstock Volodymyrets for heat-insulating and facing materials • Building sand – 54 million m3 Sarny Rokytne • Ragstone – granite, diorite, granodiorite and gabbro • Peat – 150 million tons or 20% of the total national reserve • Significant reserves of mineral water • Promising deposits of barrel-copper VOLN Berezne REGION ZHYTOMR The Region is rich in wood, the stocks REGION Kostopil of which amount to 112.8 million m3 Incredible volumes of wild berries are annually RIVNE Korets harvested in the Nothern part of the region Hoshcha (bilberry, cranberry, wineberry, blueberry) Mlyniv Zdolbuniv Demydivka Dubno Ostroh KHMELNITSKI REGION Amber Carbonate raw material Peat Quartz sand LVIV Radyvyliv REGION Basalt Building stones (granite, diorite, granodiorite) Mineral Brick-tile raw materials TERNOPIL water REGION 5 HUMAN RESOURCES WORKABLE POPULATION 12.2% Employable 19.4% Younger than employable 68.4% Older than employable 833.5 thousand people 25% 43.8% 56.3 thousand people USD 200 Employable Population with Population with Registered Average population higher education vocational education unemployment rate salary DIVISION OF EMPLOYEES BY ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES, thousand people 4.2 Financial activity and insurance 6.8 Arts, sports, entertainment and recreation 9.8 Hotels and restaurants activity 21.0 onstruction 23.4 Public administration and defence, compulsory social insurance 26.5 Transport 32.3 Health care, social assistance 47.9 Education 63.8 Industry 85.5 Agriculture 120.9 Trade 136.8 Other economic activities 0 30 60 90 120 150 6 EDUCATION There are 659 general education institutions with 150.4 thousand pupils in Rivne region. Vocational technical schools amount to 24 units with 12 thousand students. Training of personnel with higher education by professional orientation is carried out in 15 higher education institutions (HEI), among which 10 HEI have I-II accreditation levels, 5 HEI have III-IV accreditation levels. HEI are divided into types in the following way: 8 universities, 1 academy, 4 institutes, 15 colleges, 3 technical secondary schools, 2 specialized schools. 43.4 thousand people are attending classes in HEI of all the levels of accreditation. LEADING HIGHER