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• Business, educational and cultural centre of the
  Privolzhsky Federal District
• Population 3.3 million people
• Urbanization over 79 per cent

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Crossroad of Russia
Helsinki
Yekaterinburg
St. Petersburg
Minsk
Berlin
Nizhny Novgorod
Vladivostok
Moscow
Warsaw
Centre of the European Part of Russia
Delhi
Crossover of the international transport
corridors Pan-European ? 2 and North-South
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Transportation
Railway Railway density and cargo traffic volume
is above Russias average
Automobile Road density is 5 times higher than
Russias average
Water Exit to all seas of the European part of
Russia
Air International airport. Daily international
flights to Frankfurt, Germany
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Leader in Accessible Consumer Market

• Russias population is over 140 mln. people, and
  it is the largest consumer market in Europe
• The majority of these people reside in the
  European part of Russia
• 43 mln. consumers live within a 500- km radius
  of Nizhny Novgorod
• 84 mln. consumers live within a 1000-km radius
  of Nizhny Novgorod

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Industrial Complex
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Share of Total Production in Russia
Trucks 54
Buses 63
Steel Pipes 19
Paper 15
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Economic Development
Over the last 3 years - GRP increased twofold -
foreign trade turnover increased 2.2 times -
foreign investments increased sixfold - real
income of the population increased by 43.4 -
retail turnover volume increased by 61

• 2008 Growth Rates (in to 2007 figures)
• - investments to the basic capital 120.5
• - international investments 130.1
• - construction 156.9
• - housing 126.3
• - retail sales 116.6
• - fee-based services rendered to the public
  109.2

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2009 Anti-Crisis Measures

• Regions Economic and Financial Sector
  Stabilization Programme December 2008
• Targeted work with enterprises
• State support of backbone enterprises on the
  regional level
• Availability of credit resources for industrial
  enterprises
• Support of industrial enterprises product
  demand
• Support of small enterprises
• Support of residential housing and
  infrastructure projects.

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Development Strategy up to 2020

• Priorities
• automobile construction
• - science, research and innovations
• - production and distribution of mass-consumer
  goods.

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Infrastructure Development

• Regions Electric Power Industry Development
  Programme in the framework of the Agreement with
  OAO RAO "UES of Russia"
• Regions Social and Engineering Infrastructure
  Development Programme
• Amount of financing in 2008 over 14 billion RUR
• Construction and modernisation of 445 projects
  and sites, including
• multi-level junctions, underground railway,
  Nizhny Novgorod airport, hydraulic power system
  in Gorodets

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Science and Technology

• Skilled Work Force
• 18 state and private higher educational
  institutions
• 6 establishments of the Russian Academy of
  Sciences
• 47 industry research centres and engineering
  bureaus.

Scientific Research and Development Russian
Federal Nuclear Centre over 300 small
high-technology companies.
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Innovations
Areas of activity software development for
communication systems, IP-telephony, digital
signal processing, satellite and cellular
communications.
Production of export oriented software
products. Total area 62 ha, amount of financing
428.6 mln . Construction of basic facilities
and phased commissioning 2009-2010.
IT-park Orbita
IT-park Ankudinovka

• Areas of activity IT, production of medical
  equipment, energy-saving and ecology, security
  and counterterrorism systems.

Assistance to small innovative enterprises in
the sphere of information supply, initial and
preferential financing, marketing and promotion
activities.
Open Technological Park (Satis)
Nizhny Novgorod innovation business incubator

• Regional law of 2006 On state support of
  innovative activity in the Nizhny Novgorod
  region
• Regional venture fund for investments into
  science-intensive small enterprises established
  in 2007

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Foreign Economic Activity
mln. US
year
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Major Economic Partners
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Trade Turnover with Finland
mln. US

• Export
• organic chemical compounds,
• metals,
• wood, pulp and paper products,
• fuel and energy products.
• Import
• chemical products,
• machine-building products,
• wood, pulp and paper products,
• metals,
• fuel and energy products.

year
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Cornerstones of cooperation with Finland

• Annual joint working group sessions since 1997

• Priority spheres
• machine-building,
• timber industry,
• innovations,
• construction and urban planning,
• ecology energy-efficiency.

• Partnership with the Tampere region in the
  framework of the Cooperation agreement concluded
  in 1998 and updated in 2008

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Exhibition Activity

• Z, Germany
• CeBIT, Germany
• ITB Berlin, Germany
• MIPIM, France
• BMP, Spain
• CITM, China
• The Great Rivers, N.Novgorod
• Russia United, N.Novgorod

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Centres of Foreign Culture
Culture and educational centres of USA, Japan,
Sweden, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Austria,
Spain, France, Turkey etc. International
Community Association of Nizhny Novgorod (ICANN)
since 1997. Honorary councils of Czech Republic,
Austria, Italy, DPRK and Kyrgyz Republic
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Investor - Regional Authority Relations
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Investment Council

• Established in 2006
• Total investment volume 1 061.7 billion RUR
• Total workplaces estimated 156 412
• Priority investment projects 57

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Investment Support
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Investment Projects
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Industrial Clusters
PVC Processing Centre
Industrial and Logistic Complex
Automobile Cluster
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Industrial Park Dzerzhinsk-Vostochniy
Dzerzhinsk
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Thank you for attention
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Valery Shantsev Governor tel. 7 (831)
419-90-12 fax [phone] official_at_gubernat
or.kreml.nnov.ru www.government.nnov.ru