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Innovative Development of Tyumen Region
Innovative Development of Tyumen Region (without Autonomous Districts)
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| Name of the member of the Russian Federation
Tyumen Region (without Autonomous Districts)
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| The resource base of Tyumen Region provided formation of the largest in the Russian Federation oil-and-gas cluster which consists of structural units of the leading Russian oil companies. That helped to acquire significant scientific and industrial experience in the oil-and-gas sector and to build a powerful industrial, scientific-and-educational complex. Specialized research organizations, service and IT-companies, enterprises producing machine building production permanently operate on the territory of the Region.
Largest foreign and Russian oil industry service companies establish their subsidiaries, generate production of various types of equipment for oil-and-gas-industry, and organize training centers in the Region.
The economy of Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts) has a diversified structure.
The biggest share in the structure of the gross regional product, which is growing rapidly, belongs to the industry, transport, trade, agriculture.
Manufacturing companies dominate in the industrial structure of the Region, their share in the total volume of shipped products is 62%, share of organizations which specialize on production and distribution of electricity, gas and water is 22%, and share of organizations which specialize on mining is 16% (in 2009).
The machine building and metalworking (manufacturing of fabricated metal products, machinery, electrical and optical equipment, vehicles), production of food, beverages, oil products, manufacture of other nonmetallic mineral products (building materials) constitute a significant share in the manufacturing sector.
Official website of the Government of Tyumen Region is http://www.admtyumen.ru
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| Name of the municipal Body
Tyumen
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| Tyumen is an administrative and business center of the Region with a population of 612.3 million people (04.01.2010).
Tyumen is a large industrial, transport, logistic and research center. Enterprises of Tyumen produce more than 50% of the total industrial output of Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts). Machine-building industry is focused primarily on the production of a wide range of products for the energy sector, construction, transportation; it also specializes on executing orders from organizations located in autonomous districts of Tyumen Region. In Tyumen, there is one of the nation's largest oil-and-gas production equipment services center. The city has a developed energy sector.
The most important transportation corridors pass through Tyumen:
• railways: Moscow-Vladivostok (Trans-Siberian Railway), Tyumen-Tobolsk-Surgut-Novy Urengoy-Nadym.
• federal highways: Ekaterinburg-Tyumen, Tyumen-Yalutorovsk-Ishim-Omsk and road to Tyumen from Baikal highway. These federal highways form an international transportation corridor Transsib which will be a part of the transnational corridor Berlin-Beijing; Tyumen-Khanty-Mansiysk through Tobolsk, Surgut-Nefteyugansk/ This is a part of the region’s major transportation corridor Tyumen-Khanty-Mansiysk-Surgut-Novy Urengoi-Nadym-Salekhard.
There is an international airport Roshchino, railway and bus stations, a river port in Tyumen. Apart from wired connection, there is a widespread cellular and wireless network.
Tyumen is a center of banking services. In the city there is Western-Siberian Bank of Sberbank of Russia, regional banks, branches of banks from other regions which provide banking services. In Tyumen there is Tyumen Region Headquarters of the Central Bank of Russia.
Major research institutions of Russia which specialize on geology and geophysics, exploration of oil-and-gas fields, refining and transportation of hydrocarbons are focused in the regional center. Significant contribution to the research activity is made by the leading universities of the Region.
All these factors create advantageous conditions to form a major innovative center focused on development of oil and-gas-industry in Tyumen. Late in 2008, West-Siberian Innovative Centre – Technopark was commissioned to facilitate the implementation and promotion of innovative projects.
The official website of the Administration of Tyumen is http://www.tyumen-city.ru/
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| Human and Scientific Potential
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An innovative way of development is impossible without human development.
According to the magnitude of the human potential development index – 0.859 (maximum 1.0) Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts) refers to the regions with a high level of human potential with all its components (longevity index – 0.703, education index – 0.932, income index – 0.942).
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In 2009, R&D activity involved 40 organizations of Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts) including 12 branches of Russian Academy of Sciences. The number of personnel engaged in R&D late in 2009 amounted to 4,278.
Peculiarity of scientific activities of most of the R&D institutes (13) is directly connected with region’s specialization – development of oil-and-gas industry. Major oil companies have their research centers in Tyumen.
High education is represented by 12 higher educational institutions with 33 subsidiaries; their research covers a wide range of problems from fundamental to specific tasks of client-Enterprises.
To maintain and develop accumulated scientific potential in the Region there was organized a system of training scientific and scientifically-pedagogical staff. All universities and several scientific organizations have postgraduate and doctoral studies. According to official Tyumen Statistics, late in 2009 universities and research organizations hosted 2,183 postgraduate students (late in 2008 – 1,983).
Targeted training of innovative personnel is being implemented. Particularly, Tyumen State Oil-and-Gas University offers a new specialty – Innovations Management.
Tyumen State University and Tyumen State Oil-and-Gas University are the leaders in research and innovation activity among the universities of the Region.
These universities concentrate highly qualified human resources and modern laboratory facilities which are necessary for conducting and supporting R&D; technoparks’ activity is also active.
In 2008, Physics Faculty of Tyumen State University set up Nanotechnologies, a scientific-and-educational center aimed at training experts and create an experimental base for research and innovation in nanotechnologies. Oil-and-Gas Technologies, Energy-Innovation, scientific-and-educational centers, were formed in 2009.
Among the most promising R&D developments in the field of nanotechnology are the following projects:
- Development and Production of Demulsifiers of New Generation on the Liquid-Crystal Nanotechnology Base (L. P. Semihina);
- Creation of Nanotechnologies and Equipment for Ion-Plasma Doping Parts of Turbine Engines;
- Development of Technologies and Serial Production of Microfluidic and Nanofluidic Biochips for Analytical Devices (P. A. Shmidbersky).
Moreover, research in the field of environmental management is conducted. In 2008-2009 academic year, 25 large-scale projects connected with processing of drilling wastes, assessment of industrial facilities impact on the environment, environmental monitoring, and assessment of natural environment condition were implemented.
In cooperation with Tyumen Scientific Center TNK-BP and Schlumberger the University set up Regional Data Center aimed at processing data and solving problems related to rational environmental management.
Another large university is Tyumen State Oil-and-Gas University (TSOGU) – a participant of federal program Development of Scientific Potential of Higher Education. 7 research projects implemented by the University got support under this federal program.
For several years TSOGU holds leadership among universities of Tyumen Region in the field of patenting objects of intellectual property. In 2009, the University received more than 70 patents.
In 2009, the University continued the process of integration with academic and industrial science. Scientists of the University participated in several joint projects on basic research including projects with Tyumen Scientific Center SB Russian Academy of Science (8 projects), Institute of Economics, UB Russian Academy of Science (3 projects), Institute of Sociology of Russian Academy of Science (4 projects).
In September 2009, Russian Academy of Science and the Government of Tyumen Region signed a cooperation agreement that stipulated joint actions of the parties in order to conduct basic and applied research regarding scientific potential of the Region.
In 2009, GAU TO West-Siberian Innovative Center (Technopark) started its activity aimed at supporting all stages of the innovation process: from considering new ideas to launching new technologies in mass production.
Companies that carry out their activity in the business incubator of the Technopark receive significant benefits: offices equipped with technical devices which are provided free of charge during the first year of use, consulting support of business center experts and other benefits which can optimize and reduce costs. Moreover, main Technopark participants are Lukoil, TNK-BP, big companies that are interested in new projects and solutions and are ready to place orders to solve specific problems.
Currently, Technopark participants are implementing 34 innovative projects approved by Advisory Council.
Among them is OOO Intes project experts of which created an automatic complete compact electric centrifugal pump to be used in complex oil wells. The pump is able to control and run the well on-line at any distance from the oil field. This helps to make a significant increase in extraction of oil from the well (by 2-5 times). This also helps to prolong the operation period of the equipment and to save up to 30% of energy.
There is Airfieldless Plane Bella, a very interesting project, developed by A. I. Filimonov. Due to its special construction, it can take off and land on rivers, lakes, swamps, fields both in winter and summer. The operational costs compared to planes and helicopters of the same capacity are 2-3 times lower.
Specialists of OOO Geopotential developed multifunctional devices for gravimetric, seismic and magnetic exploration while searching minerals.
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| Annual Number of Students (full-time studies) that Graduated from Universities Located on the Territory of Municipal Body,
Majoring in Main Engineering and Natural Science Disciplines (Tyumen):
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In 2009, the number of full-time students who graduated from Tyumen universities majoring in Information Technologies amounted to 157 people, in Biotechnology – 95 people, in Nanotechnology – 35 people, other Engineering and Natural Science specialties (to be used in the Region) – 2,308 people.
Note: * Monitoring of key education indicators is carried out by State Statistics for October, 1 of the current year.
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| Characteristic features of leading universities and research institutions located on the territory of the municipal body that demonstrate competitiveness of their graduates on the world scale including national research universities, federal universities, institutes of Russian Academy of Science, state research centers:
- 3-5 key areas of specialization in the field of R&D where the Region has notable or leading positions in Russia and in the world, description of scientific achievements in these scientific fields;
- availability of technology transfer centers in universities and research institutions located on the territory of the Region;
- description of successful experience of cooperation of universities and research institutions with industrial companies including foreign ones.
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| Institute of the Earth Cryosphere of Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (further – IEC SB RAS) is one of the regional scientific organizations which are famous throughout the world for their research activities.
Address: ulitsa Malygina, dom 86, Tyumen, 625026
Telephone: 8 (3452) 68-87-82
Fax: 8 (3452) 68-87-87
Director – Vladimir Pavlovich Melnikov, academician of Russian Academy of Sciences.
The main research spheres of the Institute are cryogenic geosystems: their structure, dynamics, methodology of studying and forecast of development; scientific bases of conservation and use of cryogenic resources.
The examples of the research subjects are:
- “Experimental modeling of hydrate decomposition processes in the bulk phases and porous media”. The experience gained through many years of hydrate formation pilot modeling has been internationally recognized. The project results are the scientific rationale for transport hydration technologies and gas storage.
- “Physico-chemical and electrokinetic processes in geotechnical materials, natural environments, systems with ice-like structure”. Correlation of the freshly formed ice high deformability and its thermodynamic non-equilibrium structural defects was found; multiple acceleration of metal corrosion in contact with ice and in the moments of intense relaxation in ice of non-equilibrium structural defects was identified.
- “Cyclical movements of the Solar System bodies and the rhythm of natural processes”. Nowadays, equations of motion of the Solar System for 50 million years were integrated and changes in the Earth's orbit were calculated.
Small scale mapping of the areas helped the scientists of the Institute to create the Arctic Vegetation Map, to monitor forest, swamp and tundra ecosystems of the north of West Siberia. For the first time, the cartographic method of identifying and assessing regional geocryological danger of northern territories was proposed and tested.
The scientific journal Earth's Cryosphere is being published with the help of IEC SB RAS. Executive editor – V. P. Melnikov, the RAS academician.
Recently, the integration of academic science and higher education has intensified. The department of Earth Cryology, the scientific training Subarctic Polygon, Institute of General and Applied Cryology and Institute of Control Systems and Automation Technologies were founded within IEC SB RAS.
Information about the institute is available on the Internet at: http://www.ikz.ru/.
Tyumen-based Research OOO Institute of Ecology and Natural Resource Management is going to help skim off the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico which occurred after an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon platform. The Tyumen researchers are also going to skim off the oil spill and clean the US coastal area, as well as reprocess oil wastes. The oil wastes will be used while building roads and polygons and also while producing hydro and thermal insulation materials in the United States.
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| The number of employees on the labor market of specialists with basic engineering and natural science professions (according to the data of Federal State Statistics Service of Tyumen Region)
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| The total amount of highly qualified specialists in Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts) in October 2009 came to 45,995 people, including: 9,927 people in natural science and engineering, 5,217 people in biological and agricultural sciences and health care, 14,859 people in education, and 15,992 highly qualified people in other fields.
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| Wage level for highly qualified specialists in engineering and natural science in the Region (thousand roubles per year) (according to the data of Federal State Statistics Service of Tyumen Region)
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| The average nominal monthly wages of highly qualified specialists in Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts) in October 2009 came to 21,916 roubles, including: 28,660 roubles in natural science and engineering, 25,450 roubles in biological and agricultural sciences and health care, 18,955 roubles in education and 19,327 roubles in other fields of high qualification.
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| Socio-Economic Conditions and Infrastructure Development
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| Economic Indicators |
| Unit of Measurement
| 2009
| 2010
January – June
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- GDP Level per Capita
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Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts)
| thousand roubles
| 384,4
assessment
| 429,7
forecast for the year of 2010 |
- Cash Income per Capita
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Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts)
| roubles
| 17,548
| 15,635.3
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- Level of Investment Activity in the Region (the Volume of Investment in Fixed Assets per Capita)
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Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts)
| thousand roubles
| 104,8
| 42,3
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Tyumen (excluding small and medium entrepreneurship)
| thousand roubles
| 58,7
| 14,8
January - May
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| Social Conditions (Standard of Living)
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| People who live in Tyumen Region have educational and health care opportunities.
Tyumen is the main educational center of the Region. It has a well-developed system of universities. Training of highly qualified personnel is carried out on a wide range of specialties including oil and gas industry.
The number of university students per 10 thousand people is much bigger than average. There were 752 students per 10 thousand people in Tyumen Region at the beginning of 2009-2010 school year, with 523 students on average in Russia. Thanks to the fact that Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library was founded in Tyumen, students have access to the Presidential Library and information centers in Germany, France, and other countries.
Tyumen State University (TSU) is a multilevel educational system with a gymnasium, where winners of regional contests are invited to study, postgraduate and doctorate institutions, and institutes of additional professional and distance education. About 37 thousand people are trained in the university. Residents of Russia, the USA, Germany, Ukraine and Kazakhstan study in TSU applying distance technologies.
Tyumen State Oil-and-Gas University, the largest and the only one in the Asian part of the country, trains specialists for the oil-and-gas complex of Tyumen Region. 60 thousand people study in different spheres in the university.
Tyumen State Medical Academy, Institute of Regional Pathology and Tyumen Research Institute for Cardiology of the Research Centre of Russian Academy of Medical Science, Siberian Branch, represent health care. Specialists of these institutions are highly skilled to provide medical and consultative aid along with scientific research.
There are clinics providing the population of Tyumen Region with high-tech health care: Regional Clinical Hospital, Regional Clinical Hospital № 2, Regional Cancer Center and Regional Ophthalmology Clinic.
More than 10 thousand people received high-tech medical care in 2009 and among them 1,063 people who were helped by federal hospitals.
Cardiologists and cardiac surgeons of the Region research on development and introduction of new technologies in the field of cardiovascular disease treatment.
Annually, Scientists of the Region participate towards Tyumen Region Governor grants. In 2009, Aleksandr Pavlov, a surgeon of Tyumen Cardiology Center, became Leader in Scientific Innovation Contest winner.
In the last 5 years, traumatologists of Tyumen Region develop new techniques for treating spinal injuries and joints diseases. For example, 13 techniques for treating spine and joints diseases have been introduced since 2005.
The Federal Center of Neurosurgery is being planned to start its work in 2010.
There are conditions for obtaining high-quality education in the Region. Systematic work on the material-and-technical base development of secondary schools is carried out. All educational institutions have computers and access to the Internet.
The Government tries to pay attention to physical culture and sports development. Intensive construction of mass sport facilities provides athletic activity among the population. The most significant sports facilities recently built are Zodchy sports complex in Tyumen where there is the only one Olympic standard swimming pool in the Region, indoor hockey courts with artificial ice in Yalutorovsk and Tyumen, Center-Judo sports complex in Tyumen which has the necessary infrastructure for international level competitions. Construction of Pearl of Siberia Center for Winter Sports which meets international requirements is going to be completed soon.
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| Number of People with University Education
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| According to the data of 2002 Russian Census, the number of people with university education came to 12,4% per the total population number in Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts), and 18,6% - in Tyumen. In 2008, among the people involved in the Region’s economy 23,4% had university education (according to the data of Federal State Statistics Service of Tyumen Region) and 28% had vocational education.
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Crime Rate
| Unit of Measurement
| 2009
| 2010
January - June
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Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts)
| units per 100 thousand population
| 3019,9
| 1489,7
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Tyumen
| units per 100 thousand population
| 3637,3
| 1896,8
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| Participation of the Region in the Main Traffic Flows
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Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts) has a good strategic location with the most important transportation networks connecting both the northern autonomous regions of the country's transport system, and regions of Siberia and the Far East with the Urals and Central Russia.
The Trans-Siberian Railway and roads of federal importance are on its territory linking Tyumen with Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Kurgan and Khanty-Mansiysk. The railways connect Trans-Siberian Railway with the major oil-and-gas centers in the autonomous regions. The Region has large river ports (in Tyumen and Tobolsk) and an international airport.
Mainly, the south region is engaged in resources supplying which are necessary for the development of oil-and-gas industry in the north of the Region. Tyumen plays the role of the leading transport hub.
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| Availability of Freight Traffic Highway
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Tyumen Region has roads of federal importance:
-1Р-351 Yekaterinburg – Tyumen with high traffic intensity (11,941 vehicles per day);
- М-51 Baikal – from Chelyabinsk through Omsk, Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude to Chita. Intensity traffic entrance to Tyumen is 8,920 vehicles per day;
- 1Р-402 Tyumen-Yalutorovsk-Ishim-Omsk with traffic intensity of 16,647 vehicles per day
- 1Р-404 Tyumen, Khanty-Mansiysk through Tobolsk, Surgut, Nefteyugansk with traffic intensity of 9562 vehicles per day.
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| Availability of an International Airport (for countries which have direct flights to Tyumen)
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| Tyumen Roschino is an international airport which has a federal status. There are regular direct flights to Germany, Czech Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Armenia and Azerbaijan.
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| Flight Duration to Moscow
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| Flight Duration from Tyumen to Moscow is 2 hours and 40 minutes.
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| Market Capacity (in the Region and Neighboring Regions with Good Transport Accessibility within a Radius of 600 km)
- population, industrial output, trade turnover
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| Population in January 1st, 2010 (thousand people)
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Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts)
| 1,345.2
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Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra
| 1,538.6
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Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
| 546.5
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Sverdlovsk Region
| 4,393.8
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Kurgan Region
| 947.6
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Omsk Region
| 2,012.1
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| Industrial Production
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| Volume of inner goods shipped, work done, and services rendered
| Unit of Measurement
| 2009
| 2010
January - June
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| Part C: Mining and quarrying
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Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts)
| bln roubles
| 19.6
| 14.6
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Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra
| bln roubles
| 1,585.0
| 850.6
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Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
| bln roubles.
| 510.3
| 262.5
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Sverdlovsk Region
| bln roubles
| 38.9
| 25.9
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Kurgan Region
| bln roubles
| 1.2
| 0.8
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Omsk Region
| bln roubles
| 0.8
| 2.9
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| Part D: Manufacturing Activity
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Tyumen Region (without autonomous districts)
| bln roubles
| 384.1
| 168.9
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Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug - Ugra
| bln roubles
| 107.8
| 62.2
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Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
| bln roubles
| 47.6
| 35.5
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Sverdlovsk Region
| bln roubles
| 612.4
| 362.6
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Kurgan Region
| bln roubles
| 38.3
| 20.6
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Omsk Region
| bln roubles
| 323.0
| 185.2
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| Omskaya
| bln rubles
| 323,0
| 185,2
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| PART E: Manufacture and Distribution of Electric Power, Gas and Water
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| Tyumen Region (without autonomous okrugs)
| bln rubles
| 321
| 16.8
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| Khanti-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra
| bln rubles
| 133.3
| 80.6
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| Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
| bln rubles
| 30.6
| 16.7
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| Sverdlovsk Region
| bln rubles
| 113.9
| 68.3
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| Kurgan Region
| bln rubles
| 12.1
| 8.3
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| Omsk Region
| bln rubles
| 29.3
| 17.4
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| | Unit of measure
| 2009
| 2010
January-June
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| Turnover of Retail Trade
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| Tyumen Region (without autonomous okrugs)
| bln rubles
| 162.7
| 73.6
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| Khanti-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra
| bln rubles
| 270.6
| 124.0
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| Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
| bln rubles
| 97.3
| 45.3
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| Sverdlovsk Region
| bln rubles
| 553.2
| 305.6
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| Kurgan Region
| bln rubles
| 78.7
| 39.2
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| Omsk Region
| bln rubles
| 163.9
| 81.5
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| Measures to Attract Investment
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| Specisl land areas with developed infrastructure (technoparks, industrial parks, etc.). Brief description of the objects of innovation infrastructure:
services, organizations rendering them;
proximity of such areas to the leading regional research and education institutions and basic social and economic infrastructure;
specialization of the objects of the innovation infrastructure in relation to scientific-and-educational complex of the Region.
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| GAU TO West-Siberian Innovation Center (Tyumen Technopark)
Tyumen project is a part of the state program Creation of Technoparks in the Russian Federation in the Sphere of high Technologies approved by the Government of the Russian Federation on 10.03.2006, decree #328-p. In late 2008, West-Siberian Innovation Center – Technopark – was commissioned.
Technopark provides state support to small and medium businesses engaged in innovation activities (favorable lease of movable and immovable property, consulting services, information services, other services).
Apart from providing premises and consulting support, small innovative companies obtain financial support in the form of grants in the following areas:
- patenting scientific research;
- modeling a developmental prototype;
- carrying out final stage of R&D.
The specialization of Technopark stipulates significant production and R&D potential, as well as high level of competitiveness of Tyumen Region in the oil-and-gas field. Most business incubator projects (50%) are aimed at carrying out advanced R&D innovations and achievements in this sector of the economy.
Agreements between Technopark with a number of various leading enterprises of the city and Region (in construction, engineering, etc) stipulate laboratory and production facilities for carrying out tests.
Located in the central part of Tyumen, Technopark collaborates with leading educational institutions of the Region (Tyumen State University, Tyumen State Oil-and-Gas University, Tyumen State Architecture-and-Construction University, Tyumen State Agricultural Academy).
In order to implement #328-p Decree of the Russian Federation Government dated 10.03.2006, a concept of building the second stage of Tyumen Technopark is being carried out.
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| Specific Incentives Offered to Investors:
- tax incentives,
- administrative support, projects support, a simplified procedure for issuing permits related to the implementation of investment projects (e.g. Single Window)
- favorable lease of land,
- guarantees provided by Region to attract loans,
- favorable risk insurance, etc.
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| In accordance with the law of Tyumen Region (Law of Tyumen Region dated 08.07.2003, #159 (08.07.2008 edition) About State Support of Investment Activity in Tyumen Region, the law of Tyumen Region dated 15.04.1996, #33 (07.10.2009 edition) About Preferential Taxation in Tyumen Region, the law of Tyumen Region dated 06.07.2009, #39 (10.06.2010 edition) About Tax Relief for 2010 and Planned Period of 2011 and 2012 to Certain Categories of Taxpayers) investors that carry out investment projects in the Region are provided the following types of state support:
- reduction of tax rates (corporate income tax - by 4%, property tax and transportation tax – by up to 0%);
- organizational support while granting land plots that are of regional and municipal property;
- provision of state guarantees of Tyumen Region;
- provision of information and consultative assistance to people who are engaged in investment activity and those who plan to implement it.
In addition to these types of support, subsidies are granted to industrial enterprises and small businesses to compensate for a part of the interest on loans and a part of the cost of leased assets.
Development and Support of Entrepreneurship of Tyumen Region Fund, a guarantee fund, provides guarantees on loans to small and medium businesses.
Terms to provide Fund guarantees:
- a guarantee may not exceed 50% of the loan amount, but not more than 14 million rubles;
- a guarantee on credit can be given for the amount of at least 1 million rubles for a period of 1 year and more;
- remuneration of the Fund for granting a guarantee makes 2% of the amount of the guarantee.
In addition, Development and Support of Entrepreneurship of Tyumen Region Fund provides small and medium businesses with target loans in accordance with principles of urgency, repayment, and security. Target loans are granted for up to 36 months at an interest rate not exceeding the refinancing rate. Maximum loan amount is 5 million rubles.
The Fund has 26 territorial offices in cities and districts of Tyumen Region (without autonomous okrugs).
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| Results of Interviews with Entrepreneurs, Results of Inter-Regional Comparison of Business Climate in the Region
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| In 2007-2008, Tyumen Region (without autonomous okrugs) became an absolute leader in Russia’s Regions rating on the general level of effectiveness of executive authorities determined in accordance with Presidential decree About Evaluating Effectiveness of Executive Authorities of Members of Russian Federation (dated June 28, 2007, #825).
The evaluation system is based on indicators that cover the "core fields of responsibility" of the regions – development level of education, health care, housing and utilities, as well as creating conditions for economic development and growth of the gross regional product, preserving and introducing new work positions.
In 2009, according to Expert RA, a rating agency, Tyumen Region (without autonomous okrugs) had a 3B1 investment grade rating (reduced potential – moderate risk). Among other Russia’s members, the Region takes 56th place on investment risk and 35th place on investment potential.
The lowest investment risk is economic (14th place), the biggest are financial (61th), environmental (63 th),and management (78 th).
The biggest potential is institutional (10th) and industrial (21th). The lowest potential is infrastructural (61 th).
Naioghbouring regions have the following ratings: Omsk Region, YANAO – 3B1, Sverdlovsk Region – 1B (high potential – moderate risk), KHMAO, Chelyabinsk Region – 2B (medium potential – moderate risk), Kurgan Region – 3B2 (minor potential – moderate risk).
The data are provided by http://www.raexpert.ru
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| Brief Description of “Stories of Success” of High-Tech Companies, R&D Centers that operate in the Region (dynamics of output, employment rates, profit, payback period)
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| Since 2004, Schlumberger LLC has been carrying out an investment project in Tyumen. The project envisaged construction of 3 plants (a plant to produce electric loading centrifugal pumps, a plant to produce spare parts for perforator equipment, a plant to produce equipment for intensification of oil derricks) and Siberian Training Center. The project cost 3.2 billion rubles. The plants of the company were put into operation in 2006-2009, the equipment produced cost 800 million rubles a year. The number of personnel involved in the project is 350 people.
Development of Siberian Training Center commissioned in 2008 is being continued.
The training Centre is designed to train and retrain professionals of oil-and-gas industry including Schlumberger employees and business customers in conditions simulating development of oil fields in Western Siberia. The list of courses covers a wide range of disciplines in all major areas of oil-and-gas industry, including exploration, drilling and development of oil-and-gas fields.
One course training can last 2 days to 3 months. This is the only Schlumberger center where specialists of Russian oil-and-gas companies can enroll and be trained in their native language including acquisition of practical skills of handling modern equipment that is widely used in oil-and-gas industry.
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| Since 2007, Bentec Drilling and Oilfield Systems implements an investment project in Tyumen, including:
- construction of a plant designed to produce spare parts for drilling, major overhaul of oil derricks, and applied areas in engineering;
- servicing Bentec drilling equipment, a company operating its business in the Russian Federation. The ultimate goal of the project in Tyumen is production of a rig that could meet climatic, geological and technological conditions in Russia. Total volume of investment is 768 million rubles.
In 2007-2009, the company reconstructed production facilities and installed technical equipment. The plant was put into operation in 2009. In 2010, the annual volume of output will come to at least 100 million rubles. Profit is expected in 2011.
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| OOO Tyumenstalmost implemented an investment project to reconstruct and put into operation an enterprise producing metal structures for bridges, steel structures for industrial and civil buildings.
The total volume of investment into the project is more than 2 billion rubles. The number of employees is more than 800 people.
Its main production includes steel structures for construction of highway, railway, pedestrian and complex bridges, for energy, utilities sector and pipelines. Its production is used in port facilities, dry dock and sluice walls, river and pond bank protection walls, tunnel walls, and other underground structures as well as construction of other industrial and civil objects.
The plant can produce up to 40 thousand tons of steel per year.
The company plans to increase production capacity of the plant. The estimated amount of extra capital investment is 1.5 billion rubles.
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| Contact information of representatives of executive authorities of the Russian Federation, local governments, development institutions including investment agencies
Name, patronymic, surname, position, phone, fax, e-mail, website
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| Department of Investment Policy and State Support of Entrepreneurship of Tyumen Region:
Oleg Gennadevich Starkov 8 (3452) 29-65-06 StarkovOG@72to.ru
Artem Valerievich Menyailo 8 (3452) 29-65-04 MenyayloAV@72to.ru
Yelena Liparitovna Mkhitaryan 8 (3452) 29-63-16 MhitaryanEL@72to.ru
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| Fund of Business Development and Support of Tyumen Region
Anastasiya Viktorovna Filimonova 8 (3452) 50-76-69, filimonova@frpp.ru;
Alena Viktorovna Lupatova 8 (3452) 50-76-69
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| Department of Economics of Tyumen Region:
Aleksandr Mikhailovich Bezus 8 (3452) 45-33-95 deto@72.ru
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| Department of Strategic Development of Tyumen Region:
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Rudenko 8 (3452) 29-63-87 RudenkoAV@72to.ru
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| GAU TO West-Siberian Innovation Center:
Aleksandr Valerievich Sakevich 8 (3452) 53-40-00 Info@tyumen-technopark.ru
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