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Investments in fixed capital in the Samara region reached 446.7 billion rubles

21 March 2023

At the end of 2022, investments in fixed assets showed an increase of 82.5 billion compared to last year's record values. Then the Samara region showed the best growth dynamics among the major regions in the country - 22.5% with a volume of 364.2 billion rubles.

Over the past five years, large-scale work has been done in the region in the direction of attracting investors, opening new industries and creating high-performance jobs. The government team systematically builds interaction with business, and the Head of the region Dmitry Azarov is personally involved in supporting large investment projects.

The pace of development of the business climate in the Samara region is ahead of the average values in the Volga Federal District and Russia as a whole. Back in 2018, the volume of investments in fixed assets did not exceed 265 billion rubles, today this figure has grown by 70% and is close to 450 billion.

Receiving additional investments, advanced development and new jobs, we work for one goal - the prosperity of the region, improving the well-being of all its inhabitants. This is a backlog that will ensure the development of the economy, the spatial development of our native land for years, Dmitry Azarov commented, speaking about the work of the Government team in interacting with investors.

Business investments allow the region to create jobs, attract new competencies to the region, form an additional tax base, thereby providing social guarantees, building new social facilities and public spaces, and creating a decent quality of life for citizens.

Conditions for business are created as part of the implementation of the national project "Small and Medium Enterprises". Last year alone, 25 large investment projects were launched in the region, 19 of which are in the manufacturing sector. For example, a new asphalt-concrete plant appeared in the city of Kinel, the first production and logistics center in Russia for the needs of mechanical engineering was launched in the Togliatti SEZ, capable of providing car plants with rolled metal from 500 thousand tons per year, a fully automated seed plant with a capacity of 86 thousand tons per year of seeds of grain, leguminous and oilseed crops. A big event for Chapaevsk was the opening of the logistics complex of the OZON company in the Chapaevsk industrial park. New projects of large enterprises of the Samara region and, of course, small and medium-sized businesses are being actively implemented.

Dmitry Pilevin, manager of the PNK Development fund, which was involved in the construction of the OZON logistics center, noted that the project was implemented in record time thanks to the comfortable conditions created by the regional authorities.

Even for us, although we build more than 1 million square meters annually, this facility is significant and very large. It is especially pleasant that it is located in the Samara region. As a resident of the Samara region, I am glad about this. I would like to thank the leadership of the Samara region, first of all, Governor Dmitry Igorevich Azarov, the team of the Ministry of Economic Development of the region. It was very comfortable for us to work, we were always met halfway. These deadlines, which are really record-breaking, were met, among other things, due to the fact that we did not have any bureaucratic obstacles, Dmitry Pilevin said.

To implement their projects, investors choose industrial and logistics parks, where businesses are offered ready-made land plots, completed infrastructure, tax and other types of benefits. The network of state industrial parks today is represented by the Togliatti, Chapaevsk and Preobrazhenka sites, two logistics sites - Preobrazhenka-2 and Novosemeykino, as well as private industrial parks Togliattisintez and AvtoVAZ.

There are two priority development areas in the Samara region: in Togliatti and Chapaevsk. A special tax regime allows initiators of investment projects to receive a whole range of benefits and preferences. Residents of the ASEZ are exempt from paying property tax and land tax, the income tax rate is reduced to 2% in the first five years and to 12% in the next 5 years.

The investment activity of Russian and foreign businesses demonstrates the desire for growth and development, the development of new areas of activity and new markets. Our task is to provide investors with the best conditions in the country for the implementation of their projects. In addition to direct interaction with entrepreneurs at the level of the regional Government, all 37 municipalities have been given the task of accompanying any investment projects as a matter of priority, providing maximum assistance in the development of new and existing enterprises, and deputy heads to personally accompany each project, said Dmitry, Minister of Economic Development and Investments of the Samara Region Bogdanov. - Our ministry monitors such work, ranks the municipalities according to the results. Investors who come to the Samara region should be sure that all authorities here are involved in trying to help them. This is the task set before us by the Governor Dmitry Azarov.

Each investment project at all stages of its implementation is accompanied by a team of the Investment Promotion Agency of the Samara Region on the principle of "one window". The Agency is ready to assist in the launch and implementation of investment projects and / or expansion of existing production. Assistance is provided with the search for financing, including preferential financing, assistance is provided in the selection of land plots or production areas, consultations are held on support tools and tax incentives, information is provided on all the possibilities for implementing projects in the Samara region.

The implementation of a number of infrastructure projects will become a new impetus for the development of the territory and further increase the interest of investors in the region. Currently, in the Shigonsky district, not far from Tolyatti, a bridge is being built across the Volga. The facility of international importance will become part of the Europe-Western China transport corridor. The bridge itself and the highway leading to it will pass in close proximity to the city, including the Togliatti Special Economic Zone and the Zhigulevskaya Dolina High-Tech Technopark.

Source: https://investinsamara.ru/en/news/2023/21611/