The prospect of development of single-industry towns became the topic of the meeting of the Expert Council

The meeting of the Expert Council on Sustainable Development of Single-Industry Towns on topic: “On the state and prospects of the “reboot” of state policy in relation to single-industry towns” was held today under the chairmanship of the Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship A.G. Kogogina.

The meeting was attended by about 300 representatives of sectoral committees of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia, the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, the SME Corporation, the Industrial Development Fund, as well as executive bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and local governments of single-industry municipalities.

The meeting participants discussed the problems of development of single-industry towns, considered new measures of state support for development of their industrial infrastructure, summed up the results of development of territories of advanced socio-economic development.

As well as the results of providing financial support to SMEs in single-industry towns was summed up. So in the period from 2016 to 2020 the single-industry town of Naberezhnye Chelny received support in the amount of 8.9 billion rubles (81% of approved projects), and the single-industry town of Elabuga received 3.1 billion rubles (82% of approved projects).

Naberezhnye Chelny (7.27 billion rubles) was also noted among the leading single-industry towns on the territory of which SME subjects are registered and entered into agreements with the largest customers in 2020, and Alabuga Development OOO (1.86 billion rubles) was noted among the largest organizations of the customers.

In addition, through the support of the Industrial Development Fund for the period from 2015 to 2020 Tatarstan topped the five regions in terms of the number of supported projects (26 projects), along with the Sverdlovsk Region (12 projects), Nizhny Novgorod Region (11 projects), Stavropol Territory (8 projects), the Udmurt Republic and Ivanovo Region (6 projects each).

Also, the results of the SME Business Navigator portal were presented. The most active use of this service was noted in the single-industry towns of Naberezhnye Chelny and Nizhnekamsk (7,829 and 1,696 participants from among SMEs, respectively).