The Region Offering Great Opportunities! Russian Federation SMOLENSK REGION smolinvest.com
Сontents 04 06 07 08 09 10 Support Smolensk Geographical Smolensk Transport Competitive for small Regional Fund for location Region today accessibility edge and medium Entrepreneurship enterprises Support 12 13 14 16 18 19 State support State support for Logistics Priority Phoenix State Safonovo State for investment investment complexes investment sites Industrial Park Industrial Park activity of small activity of large and terminals and medium 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 efforts 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 beneficial Smolensk has an economically advantageous relations with the representatives of the Smolensk geographical location which creates prerequisites Region in various business fields. needed to increase and fulfil 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 scientific areas. to Europe. I believe that the Smolensk Region will always Vast territory and rich mineral resources, signifi- 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 financial region. organisations. Governor The Smolensk Region of today can boast of its Alexey Ostrovsky most favourable environment created to ensure of the Smolensk Region 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 RUSSIAN SWEDEN Tallinn FINLAND NORWAY Saint-Petersburg Saint-Petersburg Helsinki Oslo Stockholm Riga Tallinn Yekaterinburg Yekaterinburg ESTONIA ESTONIA Riga Moscow Moscow DANIA DANIA LATVIA Copenhagen Copenhagen LITHUANIA Vilnus Vilnius RUSSIA RUSSIA Smolensk Hamburg Hamburg Minsk POLAND Amsterdam Rotterdam Rotterdam BELARUS Warsaw Berlin Berlin Nur-Sultan Brest Brest Hamburg Brussels Bremen Bremen Kiev Prague Luxemburg SLOVAKIA UKRAINE KAZAKHSTAN GERMANY Paris Paris Vienna Bratislava MOLDOVA Rotterdam Kishinev AUSTRIA Bern Budapest FRANCE ROMANIA Zagreb Sevastopol Belgrade ITALY Bucharest CROATIA Novorossiysk Novorossiysk Paris SERBIA Sofia GEORGIA Rome BULGARIA Tbilisi ALBANIA AZERBAIJAN AZERBAIJAN Berlin Tirana ARMENIA Tashkent Ankara Baku Yerevan TURKMENISTAN GREECE GREECE Dushanbe Athens TURKEY Ashgabat Bremen Tunisia TUNISIA SYRIA Tehran Kabul IRAQ Damascus IRAN AFGHANISTAN 4 Bagdad Tripoli
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 The Baltic Pipeline to the border with SMOLENSK System (BPS – II) the Republic of Belarus Main railway line Main railway line A highway from Shanghai The Yamal-Europe to Hamburg (will be laid GAS Gas Pipeline through the territory of the Smolensk Region, commissioning is scheduled for 2024) FEDERATION Novosibirsk Novosibirsk Chita Chita Irkutsk Irkutsk Zabaykalye Zabaykalye Khabarovsk Khabarovsk Vladivostok Ulaanbaatar MONGOLIA Beijin Vladivostok Vladivostok Bishkek KYRGYZSTAN Tokyo Beijin Beijin NORTH KOREA JAPAN Shanghai SOUTH KOREA Tokyo Tokyo CHINA Shanghai Shanghai 5
Smolensk Region today Saint-Petersburg Pskov Tver Region MOSCOW Moscow Region Region GAGARIN GAGARIN Vitebsk VYAZMA VYAZMA R120 • 140 km from the border of the SMOLENSK SMOLENSK Smolensk Region to Moscow • a number of highways connecting Russia with European countries Kaluga R120 • favourable conditions for logistics Region development and terminals А130 functioning Belarus ROSLAVL ROSLAVL • 1,900 deposits of mineral resources: - brown coal Bryansk - gravel and sand Region 35% of Russian and 75% - coal clay of international cargo is • 56 deposits of fresh underground waters transported from Western Europe • 12 deposits of mineral underground waters to Russia through the territory of the Smolensk Region Total area: Population: 25 2 urban 10,700 km 1,259 km The main transportation 50,000 km 2 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 Moscow– Smolensk – 4 hours Paris 2 hours 45 minutes 4 hours Moscow “Lastochka” – 4 hours 50 minutes Smolensk Moscow – Nice – 50 hours Minsk– Smolensk – 3 hours Minsk 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
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