Since the beginning of the year, more than 25 thousand national project services have been provided to entrepreneurs and self-employed in Tatarstan

The organizations subordinate to the Ministry of Economy – the Entrepreneurship Support Fund and the Guarantee Fund - are implementing comprehensive financial and guarantee and information and consulting support for small and medium-sized businesses at all stages of development. Entrepreneurs and the self-employed are provided with microloans at a preferential rate, guarantees, grants, non-financial services, including for export-oriented SMEs within the framework of the national project "Small and Medium-sized entrepreneurship and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative".

In 2021, 3 regional projects are being implemented in the republic within the framework of the national project "Small and medium-sized entrepreneurship and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative": "Creating favorable conditions for self-employed citizens to carry out activities", "Creating conditions for an easy start and comfortable business", "Acceleration of small and medium-sized businesses". Financing of business support programs is carried out from the federal and regional budgets.

According to the results of 9 months of this year, the Entrepreneurship Support Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan provided financial support to 358 entrepreneurs in the amount of 582.5 million rubles, 59 self-employed issued microloans in the amount of 8.9 million rubles in the Microfinance Center.

The My Business Center has provided more than 25.000 services to SMEs and self-employed citizens (accounting, reporting, product labeling, certification, access to marketplaces, product promotion, etc.). 1.340 people, 729 of whom were SMEs, attended training programs of the SME Corporation.

The services of the Export Support Center were used by 1.449 businessmen, 51 entrepreneurs signed export contracts totaling $16.85 million dollars.

Also with the support of the Center for Social Innovation, 110 SMEs were included in the register of social entrepreneurs. 78 representatives of social enterprises were trained, which gives them the opportunity to apply for a grant for social entrepreneurs.

Since the beginning of 2021, the Guarantee Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan has helped entrepreneurs to obtain more than 6.3 billion rubles of credit resources, issuing 279 sureties for a total of 1.3 billion rubles, including under the regional project "Creating conditions for easy starting and comfortable doing business" provided financial support to new entrepreneurs in the form of guarantees, which allowed businesses to attract 751.7 million rubles of borrowed financing.

This year, 1.2 billion rubles is provided for state support of business entities, and taking into account the existing capitalization of structures subordinate to the Ministry of Economy (Entrepreneurship Support Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan and Guarantee Fund of the Republic of Tatarstan), the total amount of support is 3.55 billion rubles.

It is worth noting that currently in Tatarstan the number of people employed in the field of small and medium-sized businesses, including individual entrepreneurs and self-employed citizens, is 722.9 thousand people. In terms of the number of small and medium-sized businesses, Tatarstan ranks 1st in the Volga Federal District and 7th in Russia.

The national project "Small and medium-sized entrepreneurship and support for individual entrepreneurial initiative" has been implemented in the republic since 2019, the main goal of the project is to provide support measures for small and medium-sized businesses at all stages of its development: from the initial idea to expansion and export, as well as aimed at eliminating administrative barriers and popularizing entrepreneurship in society.